Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 765 · 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.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or explaining it aloud? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) explaining it aloud
3. 3.🧠 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
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) covering the answers (d) looking at the diagrams
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) look at pictures
10. 10.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
16. 16.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
19. 19.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) reading the notes again
20. 20.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) useful — fix it now (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
25. 25.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) answering with book shut
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) a blank-page brain dump
27. 27.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) listening to a recap
28. 28.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it is too hard (d) it uses a pen
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
30. 30.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) writing it from memory
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) writing it from memory
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
33. 33.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
35. 35.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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