Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 186 · 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: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
2. 2.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
19. 19.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
22. 22.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
26. 26.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
30. 30.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
31. 31.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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