Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 779 · 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.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) highlighting key lines (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
20. 20.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
22. 22.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
27. 27.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
30. 30.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
33. 33.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) read the summary
34. 34.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
39. 39.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself

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