Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 930 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
5. 5.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
9. 9.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
13. 13.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
18. 18.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
23. 23.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
29. 29.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Underline roots.” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
37. 37.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings

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