Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 746 · 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) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
2. 2.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
7. 7.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or practice questions? (a) reading it again (b) practice questions
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
10. 10.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) useful — fix it now (d) a reason to stop
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.📖 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
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
20. 20.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
22. 22.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) covering the answers (d) answering with book shut
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
27. 27.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) covering the answers
29. 29.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
31. 31.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) copying the summary
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) active recall (b) passive review
36. 36.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) highlight all of it (c) close it and recall it (d) copy it neatly
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
38. 38.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) write what you know
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
40. 40.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) looking at the diagrams

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