Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 808 · 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: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
2. 2.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
4. 4.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
10. 10.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
14. 14.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
16. 16.🧠 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.”
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
25. 25.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
31. 31.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) teaching it to a sibling
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
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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