Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 549 · 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 the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
2. 2.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “What do roots do?”
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
4. 4.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a waste of time
5. 5.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
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 of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
15. 15.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
19. 19.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
32. 32.🧠 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
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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