Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 399 · 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: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
6. 6.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
8. 8.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) recalling without notes
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
10. 10.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
18. 18.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) copy it neatly
19. 19.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
24. 24.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
31. 31.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Underline roots.”
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
33. 33.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
37. 37.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again

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