Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 500 · 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: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
3. 3.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
5. 5.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
9. 9.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
13. 13.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
16. 16.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
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 is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
35. 35.🧠 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
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
40. 40.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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