Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 727 · 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 passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
2. 2.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
4. 4.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
14. 14.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a disaster (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
15. 15.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
18. 18.🔍 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
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly

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