Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 321 · 40 questions

Study tip (Test, don’t re-read): More effective: testing yourself, recalling from memory, explaining it aloud, practice questions, quizzing a friend, self-made flashcards. Less effective: re-reading the chapter, highlighting lines, copying notes neatly, glancing at notes. After reading a page: close it, recall it, check, and fix what you missed.

1. 1.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
5. 5.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
6. 6.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
9. 9.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
12. 12.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Underline roots.”
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
20. 20.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
30. 30.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
34. 34.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
39. 39.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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