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