Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 99 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) listening to a recap
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
10. 10.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
11. 11.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
14. 14.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
15. 15.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
24. 24.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
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: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
31. 31.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Copy the diagram.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Underline roots.”
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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