Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 437 · 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: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
5. 5.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Underline roots.”
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
8. 8.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
11. 11.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
12. 12.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
13. 13.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
26. 26.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
33. 33.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
40. 40.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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