Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 471 · 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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
2. 2.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) underline it (c) read the summary (d) look at pictures
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
8. 8.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
12. 12.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
14. 14.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
24. 24.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
26. 26.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
32. 32.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers

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