Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 682 · 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: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
2. 2.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) underline it
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
15. 15.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
22. 22.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
24. 24.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
27. 27.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Read page 12.”
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
39. 39.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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