Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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