Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 435 · 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) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
2. 2.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
9. 9.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
14. 14.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
15. 15.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
22. 22.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
29. 29.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes

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