Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 683 · 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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
15. 15.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
18. 18.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “What do roots do?”
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud

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