Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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