Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 905 · 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) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
3. 3.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
5. 5.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
8. 8.🧠 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.”
9. 9.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
11. 11.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
14. 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
20. 20.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
28. 28.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
34. 34.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings

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