Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 423 · 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) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
2. 2.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
5. 5.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
10. 10.🧠 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
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
18. 18.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
24. 24.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
30. 30.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
32. 32.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) underline it
33. 33.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering a quiz (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
38. 38.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
39. 39.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud

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