Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 810 · 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: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
7. 7.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
14. 14.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
19. 19.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
29. 29.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
33. 33.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.🧠 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

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