Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 326 · 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: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
3. 3.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
14. 14.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
20. 20.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
21. 21.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time

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