Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 456 · 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.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
9. 9.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
10. 10.🧠 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
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
13. 13.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
17. 17.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
18. 18.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
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: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
26. 26.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) listening to a recap (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
29. 29.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
33. 33.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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