Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 673 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
9. 9.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
16. 16.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
21. 21.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) underline it
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
29. 29.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
36. 36.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
40. 40.🧠 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

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