Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 921 · 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.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) underline it (b) look at pictures (c) write what you know (d) read the summary
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
3. 3.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a waste of time (b) a disaster (c) a reason to stop (d) useful — fix it now
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or self-made flashcards? (a) glancing at notes (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
7. 7.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
9. 9.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it is too hard (b) familiar is not known (c) it uses a pen (d) it takes no time
10. 10.🧠 Active recall or passive review: teaching it to a sibling? (a) active recall (b) passive review
11. 11.🧠 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
12. 12.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
14. 14.Which of these is active recall? (a) answering with book shut (b) scanning the headings (c) listening to a recap (d) looking at the diagrams
15. 15.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: “writing it from memory” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
20. 20.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) close it and recall it (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) looking at the diagrams
24. 24.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) covering the answers (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
26. 26.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering a quiz (b) writing it from memory (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) highlighting in yellow
28. 28.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) active recall (b) passive review
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or recalling from memory? (a) gazing at the book (b) recalling from memory
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or recalling from memory? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) recalling from memory
31. 31.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or testing yourself? (a) reading it again (b) testing yourself
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) active recall (b) passive review
34. 34.🧠 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
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reading the notes again (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) looking at the diagrams (d) highlighting in yellow
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
38. 38.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or recalling from memory? (a) reading it again (b) recalling from memory
40. 40.🧠 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

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