Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 429 · 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: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
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 is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
7. 7.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
16. 16.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
17. 17.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
29. 29.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
31. 31.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers

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