Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 381 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
8. 8.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
10. 10.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
14. 14.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
19. 19.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
25. 25.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) a blank-page brain dump
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) scanning the headings
29. 29.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
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: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
40. 40.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes

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