Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 447 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) a waste of time
5. 5.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) scanning the headings
13. 13.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
14. 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
27. 27.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) copying the summary
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering a quiz
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
40. 40.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings

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