Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 322 · 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: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) read the summary
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
12. 12.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
18. 18.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
24. 24.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
25. 25.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
30. 30.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) answering a quiz
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
38. 38.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly

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