Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 211 · 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.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
3. 3.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it is too hard (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
15. 15.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
16. 16.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter

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