Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 608 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
7. 7.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
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.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) read it twice more
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
23. 23.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
31. 31.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
32. 32.🧠 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.”
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
38. 38.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself

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