Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 550 · 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) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
2. 2.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
3. 3.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
8. 8.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
14. 14.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Underline roots.”
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering a quiz (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
18. 18.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
19. 19.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
20. 20.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
27. 27.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🧠 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
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
40. 40.🧠 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

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