Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 417 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.📖 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
6. 6.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
10. 10.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Read page 12.”
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
13. 13.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
14. 14.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
15. 15.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
21. 21.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
33. 33.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
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams

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