Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 744 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
4. 4.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
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: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
16. 16.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
18. 18.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) scanning the headings
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
28. 28.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
31. 31.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
38. 38.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
40. 40.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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