Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 79 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
3. 3.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
20. 20.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
30. 30.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
40. 40.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen

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