Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 389 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
10. 10.🧠 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
11. 11.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a reason to stop
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Underline roots.”
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
20. 20.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
32. 32.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) scanning the headings
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
39. 39.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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