Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 83 · 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: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) underline it (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
9. 9.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
11. 11.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “What do roots do?”
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) a blank-page brain dump
20. 20.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
21. 21.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
24. 24.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
31. 31.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a reason to stop
32. 32.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
33. 33.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards

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