Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 758 · 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 active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
2. 2.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 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.”
9. 9.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
16. 16.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
17. 17.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
18. 18.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
36. 36.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
38. 38.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself

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