Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 987 · 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: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
8. 8.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Read page 12.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Underline roots.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
13. 13.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
14. 14.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
17. 17.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
29. 29.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
31. 31.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
36. 36.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
40. 40.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True

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