Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 615 · 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 passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
2. 2.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
9. 9.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) recalling without notes
10. 10.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
20. 20.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
24. 24.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) scanning the headings
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
32. 32.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
36. 36.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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