Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 917 · 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: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
2. 2.🧠 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
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) answering a quiz (d) a blank-page brain dump
5. 5.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
6. 6.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) listening to a recap (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) a blank-page brain dump
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: “reading the notes again” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
15. 15.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
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.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or practice questions? (a) glancing at notes (b) practice questions
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) highlighting in yellow (c) looking at the diagrams (d) covering the answers
24. 24.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) listening to a recap (c) writing it from memory (d) highlighting in yellow
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
26. 26.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
28. 28.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) highlighting key lines
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) looking at the diagrams (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
30. 30.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it uses a pen (c) it is too hard (d) familiar is not known
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 is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
34. 34.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) copying the summary (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) answering a quiz
36. 36.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) highlighting in yellow (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or copying notes neatly? (a) practice questions (b) copying notes neatly
38. 38.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a reason to stop (b) a waste of time (c) a disaster (d) useful — fix it now
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.True or false: “writing it from memory” is active recall. (a) True (b) False

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