Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 514 · 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 is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
4. 4.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
6. 6.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
8. 8.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) underline it
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
10. 10.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it is too hard (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
26. 26.🔍 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
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
32. 32.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) answering a quiz
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
39. 39.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud

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