Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 494 · 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: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
2. 2.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) a waste of time
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
7. 7.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
10. 10.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
14. 14.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
20. 20.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
24. 24.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 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.”
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
29. 29.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) highlighting key lines (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) teaching it to a sibling
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
38. 38.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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