Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 227 · 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 of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
2. 2.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🧠 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
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
7. 7.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
14. 14.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
17. 17.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
26. 26.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) read the summary
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
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: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
40. 40.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it

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