Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 292 · 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.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
9. 9.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.📖 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
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
33. 33.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly

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