Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 789 · 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 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
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
10. 10.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) read it twice more
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
12. 12.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) copying the summary
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) looking at the diagrams (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 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
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
21. 21.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) it is too hard
22. 22.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) answering a quiz (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
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.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) read the summary (b) underline it (c) look at pictures (d) write what you know
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
28. 28.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) teaching it to a sibling
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
30. 30.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
32. 32.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) a disaster
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
37. 37.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
39. 39.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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