Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 237 · 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) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) scanning the headings (d) teaching it to a sibling
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
8. 8.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
14. 14.📖 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
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
18. 18.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
24. 24.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
30. 30.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself

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