Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 653 · 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 is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
8. 8.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it is too hard (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
17. 17.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
22. 22.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
24. 24.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
27. 27.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
32. 32.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes

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