Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 814 · 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 practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
2. 2.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
6. 6.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
8. 8.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 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.”
10. 10.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
19. 19.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
20. 20.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
22. 22.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) a blank-page brain dump
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
30. 30.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
34. 34.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow

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