Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 67 · 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: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
5. 5.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
15. 15.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
18. 18.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Underline roots.”
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
29. 29.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
37. 37.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump

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