Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 408 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
8. 8.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
20. 20.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
27. 27.📖 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
28. 28.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
29. 29.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
33. 33.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend

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