Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 118 · 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.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
3. 3.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) teaching it to a sibling
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
10. 10.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
22. 22.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
26. 26.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
30. 30.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
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.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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