Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 778 · 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.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
13. 13.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
21. 21.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
30. 30.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
38. 38.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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