Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 580 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “What do roots do?”
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
10. 10.🧠 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
11. 11.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
12. 12.True or false: “listening to a recap” 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) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
14. 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
17. 17.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
36. 36.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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