Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 817 · 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.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) look at pictures (c) read the summary (d) underline it
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
7. 7.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
10. 10.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
14. 14.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) copying the book (d) recalling without notes
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
17. 17.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) answering a quiz
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
20. 20.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) highlight all of it (d) close it and recall it
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 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
26. 26.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
27. 27.🧠 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
28. 28.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
31. 31.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
40. 40.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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