Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 671 · 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: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
2. 2.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
4. 4.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
5. 5.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
27. 27.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
28. 28.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “What do roots do?”
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
36. 36.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself

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