Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 616 · 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: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
5. 5.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
10. 10.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
17. 17.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “What do roots do?”
18. 18.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
20. 20.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
23. 23.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
25. 25.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
29. 29.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) highlighting key lines (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) answering a quiz

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