Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 973 · 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.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) read it twice more (c) highlight all of it (d) copy it neatly
2. 2.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) active recall (b) passive review
3. 3.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) writing it from memory (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
4. 4.True or false: “listening to a recap” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
6. 6.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or self-made flashcards? (a) reading it again (b) self-made flashcards
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or testing yourself? (a) copying notes neatly (b) testing yourself
9. 9.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) useful — fix it now (b) a reason to stop (c) a disaster (d) a waste of time
10. 10.True or false: “answering a quiz” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or gazing at the book? (a) testing yourself (b) gazing at the book
12. 12.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) answering a quiz (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) looking at the diagrams
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listening to a recap (b) writing it from memory (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) answering a quiz
14. 14.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) underline it (d) look at pictures
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) answering a quiz
16. 16.🧠 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
17. 17.Which of these is active recall? (a) copying the summary (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) reading the notes again (d) looking at the diagrams
18. 18.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) reading notes slowly (c) recalling without notes (d) copying the book
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or copying notes neatly? (a) quizzing a friend (b) copying notes neatly
20. 20.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) active recall (b) passive review
21. 21.🧠 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
22. 22.🧠 Active recall or passive review: covering the answers? (a) passive review (b) active recall
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) listening to a recap (c) looking at the diagrams (d) answering a quiz
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or quizzing a friend? (a) reading it again (b) quizzing a friend
25. 25.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) answering with book shut (c) highlighting in yellow (d) scanning the headings
27. 27.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) passive review (b) active recall
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or explaining it aloud? (a) highlighting lines (b) explaining it aloud
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or explaining it aloud? (a) glancing at notes (b) explaining it aloud
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or reading it again? (a) self-made flashcards (b) reading it again
31. 31.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) reading the notes again (c) copying the summary (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or testing yourself? (a) gazing at the book (b) testing yourself
36. 36.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or recalling from memory? (a) glancing at notes (b) recalling from memory
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) looking at the diagrams (c) reading the notes again (d) highlighting in yellow
39. 39.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or practice questions? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) practice questions
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) copying the summary (c) answering a quiz (d) covering the answers

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