Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 618 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
4. 4.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
7. 7.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
10. 10.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
15. 15.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
27. 27.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
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: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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