Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 474 · 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 uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
4. 4.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
14. 14.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
18. 18.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
29. 29.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 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
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
38. 38.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “What do roots do?”
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (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: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes

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