Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 690 · 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: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
3. 3.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
5. 5.🧠 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
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
8. 8.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
10. 10.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering with book shut (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers
12. 12.🧠 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
13. 13.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
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: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
24. 24.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) covering the answers (b) reading the notes again (c) looking at the diagrams (d) scanning the headings
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
32. 32.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) writing it from memory (d) scanning the headings
40. 40.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) listening to a recap

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