Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 248 · 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: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
4. 4.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) read it twice more (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
5. 5.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
12. 12.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
16. 16.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
31. 31.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
38. 38.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
39. 39.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
40. 40.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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