Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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