Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 53 · 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 practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
2. 2.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
4. 4.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
10. 10.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
11. 11.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
16. 16.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
19. 19.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
27. 27.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
32. 32.🧠 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
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
37. 37.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut

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