Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 338 · 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: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
10. 10.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
16. 16.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
19. 19.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
21. 21.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
22. 22.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
23. 23.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
28. 28.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
33. 33.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
39. 39.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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