Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 694 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
5. 5.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
7. 7.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.📖 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
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
13. 13.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) write what you know
14. 14.🧠 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.”
15. 15.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
17. 17.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
18. 18.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
39. 39.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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