Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 833 · 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: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
2. 2.True or false: “listening to a recap” 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.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) recalling without notes
5. 5.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) teaching it to a sibling
8. 8.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
12. 12.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
14. 14.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
20. 20.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
23. 23.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
30. 30.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
32. 32.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
37. 37.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Read page 12.”
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
40. 40.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster

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