Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 620 · 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: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
9. 9.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) it takes no time
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or copying notes neatly? (a) explaining it aloud (b) copying notes neatly
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) listening to a recap (d) teaching it to a sibling
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) copying the summary
28. 28.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
31. 31.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) read it twice more (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) listening to a recap
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
39. 39.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap

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