Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 900 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
7. 7.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
10. 10.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧠 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
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: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
23. 23.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
28. 28.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
30. 30.🧠 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.”
31. 31.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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