Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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