Study Skills Worksheet: Flashcards
Study tip (Ask, answer, flip): Front: the question or cue (“Capital of Kerala?”). Back: the answer (“Thiruvananthapuram”). Good habits: one fact per card, answer first then flip, shuffle the deck, more practice on misses, make your own cards. Poor habits: a whole page per card, flipping straight away, the same order always, only the easy cards.
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- 1.Which of these is a good flashcard habit? (a) a whole page per card (b) only the easy cards (c) flipping straight away (d) one fact per card
- 2.🃏 Which cards should you practise most? (a) the cards you know (b) the prettiest ones (c) the newest only (d) the cards you missed
- 3.Which of these goes on the back of a flashcard? (a) What do roots do? (b) mice (c) Formula for speed? (d) Capital of Kerala?
- 4.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: one fact per card? (a) a poor flashcard habit (b) a good flashcard habit
- 5.🃏 Front or back of a flashcard? “56” (a) the back (b) the front
- 6.🃏 You got a flashcard wrong. What should you do with it? (a) never use it again (b) throw it away (c) hide it for a month (d) see it again sooner
- 7.True or false: “flipping straight away” is a good flashcard habit. (a) False (b) True
- 8.Which of these is a good flashcard habit? (a) a whole page per card (b) the same order always (c) never testing yourself (d) making your own cards
- 9.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: never testing yourself? (a) a good flashcard habit (b) a poor flashcard habit
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) flipping straight away (b) shuffling the deck (c) only the easy cards (d) never testing yourself
- 11.Which of these is a poor flashcard habit? (a) a question on the front (b) a whole page per card (c) more practice on misses (d) one fact per card
- 12.🃏 Why say the answer before you flip the card? (a) it is active recall (b) it looks smart (c) it saves cards (d) it is faster
- 13.🃏 How much should one flashcard hold? (a) ten facts (b) a full page (c) a whole chapter (d) one fact or idea
- 14.Which of these goes on the back of a flashcard? (a) distance ÷ time (b) Plural of “mouse”? (c) Formula for speed? (d) 7 × 8 = ?
- 15.Which of these is a poor flashcard habit? (a) one fact per card (b) answer first, then flip (c) never testing yourself (d) making your own cards
- 16.🃏 Front or back of a flashcard? “Capital of Kerala?” (a) the front (b) the back
- 17.Which of these goes on the front of a flashcard? (a) take in water (b) modern (c) mice (d) 7 × 8 = ?
- 18.🃏 Why shuffle your flashcards? (a) so order gives no clue (b) to make it messy (c) to finish faster (d) to lose some
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) flipping straight away (b) making your own cards (c) a question on the front (d) shuffling the deck
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a whole page per card (b) the same order always (c) never testing yourself (d) one fact per card
- 21.True or false: “shuffling the deck” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 22.True or false: “one fact per card” is a good flashcard habit. (a) False (b) True
- 23.Which of these goes on the back of a flashcard? (a) What do roots do? (b) Formula for speed? (c) Capital of Kerala? (d) modern
- 24.Which of these is a good flashcard habit? (a) only the easy cards (b) a question on the front (c) flipping straight away (d) reading both sides
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) more practice on misses (b) a question on the front (c) one fact per card (d) never testing yourself
- 26.Which of these goes on the front of a flashcard? (a) distance ÷ time (b) Plural of “mouse”? (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) take in water
- 27.Which of these is a poor flashcard habit? (a) one fact per card (b) flipping straight away (c) shuffling the deck (d) making your own cards
- 28.True or false: “the same order always” is a good flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 29.True or false: “only the easy cards” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 30.Which of these is a poor flashcard habit? (a) the same order always (b) shuffling the deck (c) one fact per card (d) more practice on misses
- 31.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: reading both sides? (a) a poor flashcard habit (b) a good flashcard habit
- 32.🃏 Making your own cards helps because… (a) they look nicer (b) nobody checks them (c) they are cheaper (d) you think as you write
- 33.🃏 Front or back of a flashcard? “Opposite of “ancient”?” (a) the front (b) the back
- 34.Which of these goes on the front of a flashcard? (a) 56 (b) mice (c) Opposite of “ancient”? (d) Thiruvananthapuram
- 35.True or false: “a whole page per card” is a poor flashcard habit. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🃏 Good or poor flashcard habit: flipping straight away? (a) a poor flashcard habit (b) a good flashcard habit
- 37.Which of these goes on the back of a flashcard? (a) Plural of “mouse”? (b) Capital of Kerala? (c) 56 (d) Opposite of “ancient”?
- 38.🃏 Front or back of a flashcard? “Formula for speed?” (a) the back (b) the front
- 39.🃏 Front or back of a flashcard? “Thiruvananthapuram” (a) the front (b) the back
- 40.Which of these is a good flashcard habit? (a) shuffling the deck (b) only the easy cards (c) reading both sides (d) the same order always
Answer key
- one fact per card
- the cards you missed
- mice
- a good flashcard habit
- the back
- see it again sooner
- False
- making your own cards
- a poor flashcard habit
- shuffling the deck
- a whole page per card
- it is active recall
- one fact or idea
- distance ÷ time
- never testing yourself
- the front
- 7 × 8 = ?
- so order gives no clue
- flipping straight away
- one fact per card
- False
- True
- modern
- a question on the front
- never testing yourself
- Plural of “mouse”?
- flipping straight away
- False
- True
- the same order always
- a poor flashcard habit
- you think as you write
- the front
- Opposite of “ancient”?
- True
- a poor flashcard habit
- 56
- the front
- the back
- shuffling the deck
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