Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 180 · 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: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
15. 15.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) reading the notes again
17. 17.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
28. 28.🔍 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
29. 29.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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