Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 209 · 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 highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
8. 8.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
12. 12.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
15. 15.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
19. 19.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
23. 23.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
24. 24.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
35. 35.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly

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