Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 627 · 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 gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
11. 11.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
12. 12.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
13. 13.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
18. 18.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
19. 19.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
23. 23.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Underline roots.”
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
26. 26.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
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.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
37. 37.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
40. 40.🧠 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

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