Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 939 · 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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
5. 5.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
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 is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
17. 17.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
21. 21.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
34. 34.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Copy the diagram.” (d) “Read page 12.”
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
36. 36.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams

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