Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 212 · 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.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
20. 20.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
22. 22.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a disaster (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
31. 31.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
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 glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
39. 39.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud

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