Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 611 · 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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
8. 8.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
10. 10.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) write what you know (d) underline it
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
24. 24.🧠 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?”
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
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: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
33. 33.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
36. 36.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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