Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 407 · 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) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
6. 6.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) close it and recall it
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
8. 8.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
19. 19.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
20. 20.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
23. 23.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
30. 30.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
37. 37.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself

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