Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 752 · 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 with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
3. 3.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
4. 4.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
14. 14.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
19. 19.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
23. 23.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
35. 35.📖 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
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again

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