Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 834 · 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.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it uses a pen (b) it is too hard (c) it takes no time (d) familiar is not known
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) copying the summary (d) highlighting in yellow
3. 3.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) write what you know (c) look at pictures (d) read the summary
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
8. 8.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
10. 10.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or re-reading the chapter? (a) practice questions (b) re-reading the chapter
13. 13.🧠 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
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 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
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) active recall (b) passive review
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
18. 18.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
19. 19.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) reading notes slowly (c) highlighting key lines (d) copying the book
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) covering the answers
21. 21.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
26. 26.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) copying the summary
28. 28.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) looking at the diagrams
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) scanning the headings (d) writing it from memory
30. 30.🧠 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
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
35. 35.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) teaching it to a sibling
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines

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