Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 298 · 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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
3. 3.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
9. 9.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) listening to a recap (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) underline it
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.🔍 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
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
24. 24.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow

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