Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 325 · 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.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
7. 7.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
8. 8.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
9. 9.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
13. 13.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
36. 36.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
39. 39.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
40. 40.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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