Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 113 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
4. 4.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
9. 9.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
16. 16.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
17. 17.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
21. 21.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
24. 24.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
28. 28.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a reason to stop
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
36. 36.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
38. 38.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
40. 40.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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