Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 464 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
7. 7.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
8. 8.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
17. 17.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
23. 23.🧠 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.”
24. 24.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
26. 26.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
38. 38.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend

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