Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 636 · 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: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
2. 2.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
3. 3.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
6. 6.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
12. 12.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
18. 18.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “What do roots do?”
19. 19.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
22. 22.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
25. 25.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
28. 28.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
30. 30.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
35. 35.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly

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