Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 272 · 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 glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) answering a quiz (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
7. 7.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
13. 13.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
15. 15.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
19. 19.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) read the summary (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
25. 25.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
28. 28.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
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 is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
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: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly

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