Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 328 · 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: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
4. 4.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
5. 5.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
9. 9.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
12. 12.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
23. 23.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
28. 28.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
30. 30.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
32. 32.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
35. 35.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
37. 37.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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