Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 792 · 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: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
2. 2.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
15. 15.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a reason to stop
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) teaching it to a sibling
18. 18.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
19. 19.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
20. 20.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
24. 24.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
27. 27.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
37. 37.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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