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LEVO
A level
Biology
For OCR exam board
Specification A
The ultimate active recall guide
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ABOUT THIS GUIDE
This guide focuses largely on the art of ‘Active recall’ and how to
utilise your brain at its fullest capacity. Active recall is essentially
the opposite of traditional revision methods. Rather than inputting
information by reading, highlighting, and trying to retain it; this
method teaches you to output information instead by consistently
testing yourself and forcing your brain to recall it- until it moves
over to the long-term memory store.
Think of when you passively memorise a song. You don’t read the
lyrics and highlight them hoping they will stick in your brain. You
sing the lyrics either in your head or out loud, and eventually they
stick in your head for years. This is because you are forcing your
brain to actively utilise that information, which it will then
choose to store long term as it is used often.
The structure of this guide, although it may seem odd, will largely
just be questions. These are short and simple questions that you
need to answer to trigger the process of active recall. That’s it.
*These are NOT exam questions and shouldn’t be treated as
such. These are simply questions surrounding the compulsory
topics that you must do, with the intent to allow you to
memorise key information needed for the exams.*
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USING THE ACTIVE RECALL METHOD
Answer your questions 3 times
Attempt 1: Answer from memory, mark when finished
Attempt 2: Answer open book
Attempt 3: Answer from memory again, mark when finished
Comparison
Compare attempts 1 and 3 and see if there are any improvements
Identify
Highlight all the questions you got wrong in BOTH attempts 1&3.
Repeat process until all questions are answered correctly
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ACTIVE RECALL QUESTIONS
This section will be the main body of this guide. Below, you
will find active recall questions that will cover every single
compulsory topic for Year 1/AS and Year 2 A level.
LEVO
A level
Biology
For OCR exam board
Specification A
The ultimate active recall guide
, lOMoARcPSD|66458793
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
This guide focuses largely on the art of ‘Active recall’ and how to
utilise your brain at its fullest capacity. Active recall is essentially
the opposite of traditional revision methods. Rather than inputting
information by reading, highlighting, and trying to retain it; this
method teaches you to output information instead by consistently
testing yourself and forcing your brain to recall it- until it moves
over to the long-term memory store.
Think of when you passively memorise a song. You don’t read the
lyrics and highlight them hoping they will stick in your brain. You
sing the lyrics either in your head or out loud, and eventually they
stick in your head for years. This is because you are forcing your
brain to actively utilise that information, which it will then
choose to store long term as it is used often.
The structure of this guide, although it may seem odd, will largely
just be questions. These are short and simple questions that you
need to answer to trigger the process of active recall. That’s it.
*These are NOT exam questions and shouldn’t be treated as
such. These are simply questions surrounding the compulsory
topics that you must do, with the intent to allow you to
memorise key information needed for the exams.*
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USING THE ACTIVE RECALL METHOD
Answer your questions 3 times
Attempt 1: Answer from memory, mark when finished
Attempt 2: Answer open book
Attempt 3: Answer from memory again, mark when finished
Comparison
Compare attempts 1 and 3 and see if there are any improvements
Identify
Highlight all the questions you got wrong in BOTH attempts 1&3.
Repeat process until all questions are answered correctly
, lOMoARcPSD|66458793
ACTIVE RECALL QUESTIONS
This section will be the main body of this guide. Below, you
will find active recall questions that will cover every single
compulsory topic for Year 1/AS and Year 2 A level.
