Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 152 · 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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
22. 22.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
26. 26.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
38. 38.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
40. 40.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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