Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 476 · 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: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
10. 10.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) copy it neatly (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
32. 32.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.🧠 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

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