Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 861 · 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: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
2. 2.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) read it twice more
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering with book shut
7. 7.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a waste of time (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
8. 8.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) copying the summary (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) covering the answers
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or highlighting lines? (a) recalling from memory (b) highlighting lines
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
16. 16.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 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
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) copying the summary (c) looking at the diagrams (d) teaching it to a sibling
19. 19.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🧠 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
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or explaining it aloud? (a) copying notes neatly (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
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.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) it takes no time (c) it uses a pen (d) familiar is not known
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
30. 30.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
32. 32.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) copying the summary
33. 33.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) reading the notes again (d) teaching it to a sibling
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🧠 What is active recall? (a) reading notes slowly (b) recalling without notes (c) copying the book (d) highlighting key lines
37. 37.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
39. 39.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
40. 40.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review

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