Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 740 · 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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) copy it neatly
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “What do roots do?”
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
31. 31.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
38. 38.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams

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