Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 403 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
5. 5.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
8. 8.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a disaster
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: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
16. 16.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
18. 18.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
29. 29.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
32. 32.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
36. 36.📖 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
37. 37.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly

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