Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 482 · 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.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
3. 3.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
11. 11.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 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.”
33. 33.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
35. 35.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
39. 39.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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