Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 796 · 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: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) read it twice more (d) copy it neatly
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
6. 6.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) highlighting in yellow (d) teaching it to a sibling
7. 7.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
14. 14.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) writing it from memory (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
18. 18.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) underline it
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) highlighting in yellow (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
23. 23.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
24. 24.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) listening to a recap (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🧠 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
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
30. 30.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
34. 34.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) answering with book shut (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
37. 37.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or re-reading the chapter? (a) self-made flashcards (b) re-reading the chapter
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
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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