Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 41 · 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 highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
4. 4.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
5. 5.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
8. 8.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
11. 11.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
12. 12.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
14. 14.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
27. 27.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
30. 30.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
32. 32.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards

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