Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 421 · 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: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
3. 3.🧠 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.”
4. 4.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
21. 21.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
23. 23.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) a blank-page brain dump
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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