Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 700 · 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) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
4. 4.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
12. 12.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.Which of these is passive review? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or quizzing a friend? (a) gazing at the book (b) quizzing a friend
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
20. 20.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) underline it
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
25. 25.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
30. 30.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
32. 32.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
33. 33.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
36. 36.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
38. 38.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
39. 39.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards

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