Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 982 · 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: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines
2. 2.📖 Re-reading feels easy. Why can it fool you? (a) it takes no time (b) it is too hard (c) familiar is not known (d) it uses a pen
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: copying the summary? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) teaching it to a sibling (d) highlighting in yellow
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or highlighting lines? (a) explaining it aloud (b) highlighting lines
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) highlighting in yellow (b) covering the answers (c) scanning the headings (d) listening to a recap
7. 7.Which of these is active recall? (a) reading the notes again (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
8. 8.🧠 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
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or re-reading the chapter? (a) testing yourself (b) re-reading the chapter
11. 11.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or testing yourself? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) testing yourself
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: highlighting in yellow? (a) active recall (b) passive review
13. 13.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) looking at the diagrams (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) reading the notes again
14. 14.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) writing it from memory (c) looking at the diagrams (d) listening to a recap
16. 16.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or recalling from memory? (a) copying notes neatly (b) recalling from memory
17. 17.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: gazing at the book or self-made flashcards? (a) gazing at the book (b) self-made flashcards
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) answering with book shut (c) reading the notes again (d) covering the answers
19. 19.True or false: “highlighting in yellow” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) close it and recall it (b) read it twice more (c) copy it neatly (d) highlight all of it
23. 23.🧠 What is active recall? (a) recalling without notes (b) highlighting key lines (c) copying the book (d) reading notes slowly
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or reading it again? (a) testing yourself (b) reading it again
25. 25.True or false: “copying the summary” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: re-reading the chapter or quizzing a friend? (a) re-reading the chapter (b) quizzing a friend
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) writing it from memory (c) scanning the headings (d) a blank-page brain dump
29. 29.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) look at pictures (b) underline it (c) read the summary (d) write what you know
30. 30.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is passive review? (a) answering with book shut (b) reading the notes again (c) writing it from memory (d) a blank-page brain dump
32. 32.True or false: “listening to a recap” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or highlighting lines? (a) testing yourself (b) highlighting lines
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or highlighting lines? (a) quizzing a friend (b) highlighting lines
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
37. 37.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “answering with book shut” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) highlighting in yellow (c) copying the summary (d) answering with book shut

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