Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 813 · 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.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
5. 5.🧠 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
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
7. 7.🧠 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.”
8. 8.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
10. 10.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
13. 13.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
26. 26.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
29. 29.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) underline it (c) read the summary (d) look at pictures
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
32. 32.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
33. 33.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly

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