Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 154 · 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: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
6. 6.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
9. 9.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
11. 11.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) read it twice more
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
16. 16.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) a blank-page brain dump
20. 20.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
32. 32.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
35. 35.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
38. 38.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend

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