Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 711 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
4. 4.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
7. 7.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.📖 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
16. 16.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
17. 17.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) looking at the diagrams
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
22. 22.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) listening to a recap (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
30. 30.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
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: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
39. 39.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap

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