Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 839 · 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: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 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
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
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: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) highlighting in yellow
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) reading the notes again (c) answering with book shut (d) teaching it to a sibling
14. 14.🧠 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
15. 15.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering a quiz (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) scanning the headings
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) writing it from memory
18. 18.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) answering with book shut (d) scanning the headings
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or practice questions? (a) gazing at the book (b) practice questions
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) listening to a recap
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) a blank-page brain dump
30. 30.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) listening to a recap
34. 34.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) covering the answers (c) highlighting in yellow (d) copying the summary
36. 36.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
37. 37.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it is too hard (c) it takes no time (d) it uses a pen
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
40. 40.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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