My Learning Style

A fun quiz to deter­mine your Learn­ing Style.

My Learn­ing Style is:

• Visual/Nonverbal 24
• Visual/Verbal 26
• Audi­tory 20
• Kines­thetic 24

Your pri­mary learn­ing style is:
The Visual/ Ver­bal Learn­ing Style

You learn best when infor­ma­tion is pre­sented visu­ally and in a writ­ten lan­guage for­mat. In a class­room set­ting, you ben­e­fit from instruc­tors who use the black­board (or over­head pro­jec­tor) to list the essen­tial points of a lec­ture, or who pro­vide you with an out­line to fol­low along with dur­ing lec­ture. You ben­e­fit from infor­ma­tion obtained from text­books and class notes. You tend to like to study by your­self in a quiet room. You often see infor­ma­tion “in your mind’s eye” when you are try­ing to remem­ber some­thing.

Learn­ing Strate­gies for the Visual/ Ver­bal Learner: To aid recall, make use of “color cod­ing” when study­ing new infor­ma­tion in your text­book or notes. Using high­lighter pens, high­light dif­fer­ent kinds of infor­ma­tion in con­trast­ing col­ors. Write out sen­tences and phrases that sum­ma­rize key infor­ma­tion obtained from your text­book and lec­ture. Make flash­cards of vocab­u­lary words and con­cepts that need to be mem­o­rized. Use high­lighter pens to empha­size key points on the cards. Limit the amount of infor­ma­tion per card so your mind can take a men­tal “pic­ture” of the infor­ma­tion. When learn­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented in dia­grams or illus­tra­tions, write out expla­na­tions for the infor­ma­tion. When learn­ing math­e­mat­i­cal or tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion, write out in sen­tences and key phrases your under­stand­ing of the mate­r­ial. When a prob­lem involves a sequence of steps, write out in detail how to do each step. Make use of com­puter word pro­cess­ing. Copy key infor­ma­tion from your notes and text­book into a com­puter. Use the print-outs for visual review. Before an exam, make your­self visual reminders of infor­ma­tion that must be mem­o­rized. Make “stick it” notes con­tain­ing key words and con­cepts and place them in highly vis­i­ble places –on your mir­ror, note­book, car dash­board, etc..