Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 753 · 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) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
2. 2.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
10. 10.🧠 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
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
14. 14.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
24. 24.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
28. 28.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
33. 33.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
37. 37.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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