Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 850 · 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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it is too hard (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
2. 2.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
12. 12.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
14. 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
15. 15.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) read it twice more
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
18. 18.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
25. 25.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz

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