Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 66 · 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: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
5. 5.🧠 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
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
7. 7.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
11. 11.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
20. 20.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “What do roots do?”
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
30. 30.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) looking at the diagrams
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a disaster (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
38. 38.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
40. 40.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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