Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 940 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) look at pictures
11. 11.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
15. 15.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
18. 18.🧠 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.”
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
21. 21.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) a blank-page brain dump
24. 24.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
29. 29.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
33. 33.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
40. 40.🧠 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

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