Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 649 · 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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
9. 9.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
11. 11.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
21. 21.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
24. 24.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
27. 27.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
31. 31.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
37. 37.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
38. 38.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall

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