Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 273 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
7. 7.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
14. 14.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
17. 17.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
25. 25.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
28. 28.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
37. 37.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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