Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 522 · 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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
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 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
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
12. 12.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
19. 19.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
23. 23.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
27. 27.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
34. 34.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
37. 37.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) write what you know (d) underline it
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers

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