Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 639 · 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 glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
10. 10.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
16. 16.🧠 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.”
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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