Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 334 · 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: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
8. 8.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) scanning the headings
10. 10.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a disaster (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
15. 15.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
17. 17.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
21. 21.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
22. 22.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
24. 24.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
31. 31.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) read the summary

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