Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 413 · 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) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
13. 13.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
14. 14.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
15. 15.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
17. 17.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
23. 23.🧠 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
24. 24.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
26. 26.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) useful — fix it now (c) a waste of time (d) a disaster
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
40. 40.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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