Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 448 · 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.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
4. 4.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
7. 7.📖 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
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
10. 10.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
14. 14.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
15. 15.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
29. 29.🧠 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
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.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
40. 40.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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