Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 539 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
3. 3.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
7. 7.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
8. 8.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 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
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
13. 13.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
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 is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
22. 22.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
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: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) covering the answers
32. 32.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
34. 34.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again

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