Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 709 · 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.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
8. 8.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
13. 13.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
14. 14.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
26. 26.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) recalling without notes
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) a blank-page brain dump
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
35. 35.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow

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