Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 501 · 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.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) scanning the headings (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) copying the summary (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
15. 15.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
19. 19.🧠 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
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) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) listening to a recap
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
24. 24.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
30. 30.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
38. 38.📖 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
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards

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