Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 390 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
6. 6.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) answering a quiz
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
11. 11.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
14. 14.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
19. 19.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
24. 24.🧠 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
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
34. 34.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 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
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
38. 38.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap

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