Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 807 · 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: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
8. 8.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
10. 10.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
16. 16.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
30. 30.🧠 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.”
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
32. 32.🧠 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
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) teaching it to a sibling
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut

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