Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 513 · 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: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
7. 7.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
12. 12.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
13. 13.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
17. 17.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
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.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
29. 29.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) recalling without notes
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
33. 33.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
37. 37.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz

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