Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 485 · 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: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
8. 8.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) a blank-page brain dump
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
13. 13.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
17. 17.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
20. 20.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) read it twice more (d) highlight all of it
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
22. 22.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
31. 31.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
35. 35.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
38. 38.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself

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