Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 365 · 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 highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
7. 7.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
11. 11.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
24. 24.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
28. 28.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
40. 40.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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