Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 882 · 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.🧠 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
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) reading the notes again (d) scanning the headings
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) highlighting in yellow
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
11. 11.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
12. 12.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) read the summary (d) underline it
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
14. 14.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) highlighting key lines (c) recalling without notes (d) reading notes slowly
15. 15.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) familiar is not known (d) it is too hard
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
17. 17.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering a quiz (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) scanning the headings
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
23. 23.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
24. 24.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) active recall (b) passive review
26. 26.🧠 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
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering a quiz (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) highlighting in yellow (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or self-made flashcards? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) self-made flashcards
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
32. 32.True or false: “scanning the headings” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧠 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
34. 34.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) writing it from memory
35. 35.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) answering with book shut
37. 37.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or glancing at notes? (a) explaining it aloud (b) glancing at notes
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) scanning the headings (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
40. 40.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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