Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 957 · 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: quizzing a friend or gazing at the book? (a) quizzing a friend (b) gazing at the book
2. 2.📖 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
3. 3.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) close it and recall it
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
5. 5.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
7. 7.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
9. 9.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or explaining it aloud? (a) gazing at the book (b) explaining it aloud
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
16. 16.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) copying the summary (d) reading the notes again
17. 17.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🧠 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
19. 19.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
21. 21.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or highlighting lines? (a) self-made flashcards (b) highlighting lines
25. 25.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
26. 26.🧠 What is active recall? (a) copying the book (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) highlighting key lines
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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) answering with book shut
29. 29.🧠 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
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
31. 31.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
33. 33.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) answering a quiz (d) answering with book shut
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
36. 36.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
37. 37.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) write what you know (c) underline it (d) read the summary
38. 38.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) listening to a recap (d) reading the notes again
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) covering the answers (b) reading the notes again (c) highlighting in yellow (d) looking at the diagrams

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