Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 878 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
5. 5.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
16. 16.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
24. 24.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
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.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
39. 39.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “What do roots do?”
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap

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