Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 515 · 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: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
2. 2.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
5. 5.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
7. 7.🧠 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
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
16. 16.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
30. 30.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards

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