Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 624 · 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: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
2. 2.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
10. 10.🧠 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
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
14. 14.🧠 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.”
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
23. 23.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) read the summary (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
28. 28.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
29. 29.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) copy it neatly
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.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
36. 36.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.📖 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

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