Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 889 · 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.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
3. 3.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering a quiz (d) copying the summary
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) underline it (c) read the summary (d) look at pictures
11. 11.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) familiar is not known (b) it uses a pen (c) it takes no time (d) it is too hard
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) writing it from memory (d) looking at the diagrams
15. 15.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
18. 18.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) answering with book shut (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) scanning the headings
20. 20.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or reading it again? (a) practice questions (b) reading it again
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or reading it again? (a) explaining it aloud (b) reading it again
23. 23.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
26. 26.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) a reason to stop
28. 28.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) highlight all of it (c) read it twice more (d) copy it neatly
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering a quiz (d) listening to a recap
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
31. 31.🧠 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
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering a quiz (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or quizzing a friend? (a) highlighting lines (b) quizzing a friend
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) scanning the headings (c) reading the notes again (d) answering a quiz
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or quizzing a friend? (a) glancing at notes (b) quizzing a friend
38. 38.🧠 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
39. 39.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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