Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 31 · 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 active recall. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
10. 10.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
14. 14.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) read the summary
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
31. 31.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) read it twice more
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 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
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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
36. 36.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
37. 37.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it is too hard (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
39. 39.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) recalling without notes
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes

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