Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 864 · 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.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
9. 9.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
11. 11.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
13. 13.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
19. 19.🧠 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.”
20. 20.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
31. 31.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory

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