Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 715 · 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 of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) looking at the diagrams (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
2. 2.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
8. 8.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
10. 10.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
11. 11.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
15. 15.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it takes no time (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
16. 16.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
18. 18.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) a blank-page brain dump
19. 19.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) looking at the diagrams
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) copying the summary
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or re-reading the chapter? (a) quizzing a friend (b) re-reading the chapter
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) copying the summary (d) covering the answers
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
33. 33.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) looking at the diagrams
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
36. 36.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) writing it from memory
38. 38.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧠 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
40. 40.🧠 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

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