Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 47 · 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: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
10. 10.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
15. 15.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump
22. 22.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
24. 24.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
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 of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
36. 36.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly

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