Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 990 · 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: highlighting lines or recalling from memory? (a) highlighting lines (b) recalling from memory
2. 2.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or glancing at notes? (a) quizzing a friend (b) glancing at notes
3. 3.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) read it twice more (b) copy it neatly (c) close it and recall it (d) highlight all of it
4. 4.🧠 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
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or copying notes neatly? (a) testing yourself (b) copying notes neatly
6. 6.Which of these is passive review? (a) covering the answers (b) looking at the diagrams (c) answering with book shut (d) a blank-page brain dump
7. 7.True or false: “answering with book shut” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) writing it from memory (b) answering a quiz (c) copying the summary (d) teaching it to a sibling
10. 10.🧠 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
11. 11.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) active recall (b) passive review
12. 12.🧠 Active recall or passive review: scanning the headings? (a) passive review (b) active recall
13. 13.True or false: “reading the notes again” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) covering the answers (d) copying the summary
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) teaching it to a sibling (c) listening to a recap (d) answering with book shut
16. 16.True or false: “scanning the headings” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
18. 18.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or quizzing a friend? (a) copying notes neatly (b) quizzing a friend
19. 19.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or gazing at the book? (a) recalling from memory (b) gazing at the book
20. 20.Which of these is passive review? (a) a blank-page brain dump (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) reading the notes again
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or practice questions? (a) copying notes neatly (b) practice questions
22. 22.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or practice questions? (a) highlighting lines (b) practice questions
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) writing it from memory (d) answering with book shut
24. 24.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) passive review (b) active recall
26. 26.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is active recall? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) covering the answers (c) listening to a recap (d) highlighting in yellow
28. 28.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
29. 29.Which of these is passive review? (a) scanning the headings (b) a blank-page brain dump (c) answering with book shut (d) writing it from memory
30. 30.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: glancing at notes or testing yourself? (a) glancing at notes (b) testing yourself
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) copying the summary (c) scanning the headings (d) highlighting in yellow
32. 32.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or testing yourself? (a) highlighting lines (b) testing yourself
33. 33.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) looking at the diagrams (b) writing it from memory (c) answering with book shut (d) covering the answers
35. 35.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧠 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
37. 37.🧠 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
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) answering with book shut
39. 39.🧠 A quick way to do active recall is… (a) write what you know (b) read the summary (c) look at pictures (d) underline it
40. 40.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or highlighting lines? (a) practice questions (b) highlighting lines

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