Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 505 · 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 quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) highlighting key lines (d) reading notes slowly
6. 6.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
11. 11.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) read it twice more
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
19. 19.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 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
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
37. 37.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
38. 38.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
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: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud

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