Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 425 · 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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
4. 4.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
8. 8.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
14. 14.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
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.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
27. 27.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
37. 37.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself

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