Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 954 · 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.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
2. 2.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
7. 7.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
10. 10.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) scanning the headings
12. 12.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
19. 19.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a disaster (c) a waste of time (d) a reason to stop
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
22. 22.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
26. 26.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) a blank-page brain dump
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
32. 32.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “Read page 12.” (c) “What do roots do?” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.🧠 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

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