Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 681 · 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: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
3. 3.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) read the summary
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
6. 6.🧠 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?”
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
29. 29.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
38. 38.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
39. 39.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly

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