Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 548 · 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 usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) highlighting in yellow
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) recalling without notes (c) reading notes slowly (d) copying the book
6. 6.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
7. 7.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
8. 8.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
12. 12.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
14. 14.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
24. 24.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
26. 26.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) underline it
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
31. 31.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
36. 36.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) writing it from memory
39. 39.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) a blank-page brain dump

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