Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 48 · 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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
8. 8.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
9. 9.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
15. 15.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) recalling without notes (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
17. 17.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
20. 20.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
26. 26.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
37. 37.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
40. 40.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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