Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 240 · 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: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
5. 5.🧠 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
6. 6.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
7. 7.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
20. 20.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
35. 35.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
40. 40.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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