Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 300 · 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.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
2. 2.📖 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
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 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
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
15. 15.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) read it twice more (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
19. 19.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
28. 28.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
33. 33.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
37. 37.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🧠 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

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