Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

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

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