Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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