Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 544 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
5. 5.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) read the summary (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
6. 6.🧠 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
7. 7.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
13. 13.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
16. 16.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
19. 19.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) copying the book (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering with book shut (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
24. 24.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
35. 35.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
40. 40.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False

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