Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 760 · 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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
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: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
6. 6.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
8. 8.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
10. 10.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
13. 13.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Read page 12.”
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
23. 23.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
32. 32.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
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: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
36. 36.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) write what you know
37. 37.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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