Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 588 · 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) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
4. 4.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
5. 5.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
9. 9.📖 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
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or glancing at notes? (a) self-made flashcards (b) glancing at notes
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
15. 15.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
18. 18.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
21. 21.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering a quiz
22. 22.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
33. 33.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) underline it (d) write what you know
34. 34.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
38. 38.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book

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