Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 553 · 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: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) a waste of time (d) useful — fix it now
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or gazing at the book? (a) self-made flashcards (b) gazing at the book
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
14. 14.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) copy it neatly
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) looking at the diagrams
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
18. 18.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
22. 22.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it takes no time
23. 23.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
25. 25.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) covering the answers
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) scanning the headings
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
31. 31.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
34. 34.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or gazing at the book? (a) explaining it aloud (b) gazing at the book
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly

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