Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 965 · 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) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
9. 9.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
10. 10.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
13. 13.🧠 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
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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
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: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
25. 25.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “What do roots do?” (b) “Copy the diagram.” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
34. 34.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers

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