Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 770 · 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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
3. 3.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) underline it (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
9. 9.🧠 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.”
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
11. 11.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
13. 13.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
17. 17.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
19. 19.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
23. 23.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
34. 34.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again

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