Discover your style of learning

When you don’t quite understand or remember something:

It doesn’t ring a bell or resonate

It seems hazy or unclear

You can’t get a handle on it or feel it

You are about to give a friend directions to your home. Would you:

Draw a map on paper?

Tell her the directions?

Pick her up in your car?

You are staying in a hotel and have a rental car. You would like to visit a friend whose address you do not know. Would you like them to:

Draw you a map?

Tell you directions?

Pick you up in their car?

Learning technical material is easiest for you when:

Someone explains the ideas to you

You visualize the concepts and see the whole picture

You can learn by doing or get a feel for the ideas

You are going to cook a dessert as a special treat for your family. Do you:

Cook something familiar?

Look through a cookbook for ideas?

Ask for the advice of others?

You are about to purchase a new sound system. Other than the price, what would most influence your decision?

A friend speaking about it

How it makes you feel

Its distinctive look or appearance

Recall a time in your life when you learned how to do something like playing a new board game. Try to avoid choosing a very physical skill like riding a bike. How did you learn best? By:

Looking at the directions, pictures, diagrams, or charts

Listening to somebody explain it

Doing it

Which of these games to you prefer?

Pictionary

20 Questions

Scrabble

You are about to learn how to use a new program on a computer. Would you:

Read the instructions?

Call a friend and ask questions about it?

Turn it on and learn by experimentation?

You most easily are aware of and notice:

The quality of music from a sound system

If colors, shapes, or patterns clash

If clothes feel uncomfortable

You are not sure whether a word should be spelled “separate” or “seperate.” Do you:

See the word in your mind and choose the best way it looks?

Sound it out?

Write down both versions?

A new movie has arrived in town. What would most influence your decision to go or not go?

Friends/family talking about it

You have an intuition or sense about it

You saw a preview of it

You most easily remember directions when you:

Repeat them to yourself as you hear them

Visualize them

Intuitively sense how to get there

Do you prefer a teacher or trainer who likes to use:

Handouts, flow diagrams, charts, and visuals?

Field trips, experiments, and applications?

Discussions, guest speakers, and conversations?

Once you completely understand a new idea:

It is now concrete, or you have a feel for it

You have it loud and clear

You can envision it

You make decisions best when you rely on:

Your gut instinct

What looks clearest to you

What sounds best to you

At a party, you are most interested in people who

Are interesting and articulate speakers

Convey a warm and relaxing feeling

Radiate a visual beauty

Discover your style of learning

Auditory

Your results show that you are an auditory learner. This means that you find yourself most comfortable Learning by listening, either to a lecture, a podcast, an audiobook, a discussion, etc. You are also a Visual and Kinestetic learner but less dominant in it. You should become more balanced by engaging this forms of learning as well.

Visual

Your results show that you are a visual learner. This means that you tend to learn through illustrations, charts, videos and other visual media. You are also an Auditory and Kinesthetic learner but less dominant in it. You should become more balanced by engaging these forms of learning as well.

Kinesthetic

Your results show that you are a Kinesthetic learner. This means that you prefer to learn via physical interaction and figuring things out. You are also an Auditory and Visual learner but less dominant in it. You should become more balanced by engaging these forms of learning as well.

When you don’t quite understand or remember something:

You are about to give a friend directions to your home. Would you:

You are staying in a hotel and have a rental car. You would like to visit a friend whose address you do not know. Would you like them to:

Learning technical material is easiest for you when:

You are going to cook a dessert as a special treat for your family. Do you:

You are about to purchase a new sound system. Other than the price, what would most influence your decision?

Recall a time in your life when you learned how to do something like playing a new board game. Try to avoid choosing a very physical skill like riding a bike. How did you learn best? By:

Which of these games to you prefer?

You are about to learn how to use a new program on a computer. Would you:

You most easily are aware of and notice:

You are not sure whether a word should be spelled “separate” or “seperate.” Do you:

A new movie has arrived in town. What would most influence your decision to go or not go?

You most easily remember directions when you:

Do you prefer a teacher or trainer who likes to use:

Once you completely understand a new idea:

You make decisions best when you rely on:

At a party, you are most interested in people who

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