Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 913 · 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.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a waste of time
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
7. 7.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
13. 13.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Read page 12.”
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
18. 18.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
26. 26.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
27. 27.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
35. 35.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
37. 37.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) read the summary
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
40. 40.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes

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