How to know what type of learner you are

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Auditory learners remember things by hearing and listening. You tend to have an easier time understanding spoken instructions than written ones. If you are a visual learner, you learn by reading or seeing pictures. You understand and remember things by sight. You can picture what you are learning in your head, and you learn best by using methods that are primarily visual.

You like to see what you are learning. As a visual learner, you are usually neat and clean. You often close your eyes to visualize or remember something, and you will find something to watch if you become bored.

You may have difficulty with spoken directions and may be easily distracted by sounds. You are attracted to colour and to spoken language like stories that are rich in imagery. If you are a kinesthetic learner, you learn by touching and doing. You understand and remember things through physical movement. You are a "hands-on" learner who prefers to touch, move, build, or draw what you learn, and you tend to learn better when some type of physical activity is involved.

You need to be active and take frequent breaks, you often speak with your hands and with gestures, and you may have difficulty sitting still. As a kinesthetic learner, you like to take things apart and put things together, and you tend to find reasons to tinker or move around when you become bored. You may be very well coordinated and have good athletic ability. You can easily remember things that were done but may have difficulty remembering what you saw or heard in the process.

You often communicate by touching, and you appreciate physically expressed forms of encouragement, such as a pat on the back. You may remember different things by reading and seeing pictures, or by hearing and listening. A good variety of both will allow you to understand in which situations each works well. You may learn well by reading and seeing pictures, but also by touching and doing. You may be a hands-on learner who also likes to see pictures and visualise things.

You may learn well by hearing and listening, but also by touching and doing. I would learn most from:. When choosing a career or area of study, these are important for me:. Working with designs, maps or charts. Using words well in written communications. Communicating with others through discussion. Applying my knowledge in real situations. I want to find out more about a tour that I am going on. Visual learners tend to learn information by seeing, whether through reading or watching.

Reading textbooks, material on the board or on overhead projectors, as well as demonstrations and diagrams are helpful. The following list contains strategies for Visual learners. Auditory learners benefit from listening — hearing the information and processing it accordingly.

Auditory learners focus easily on sounds and have good memory of what they have heard through lectures or tape. The following hints are useful for Auditory learners. Tactile learners acquire knowledge best through manipulation — doing, touching, hands-on, and writing techniques. Primary Tactile learners would benefit from finding their secondary learning mode and use the directions for either Visual or Auditory in conjunction with the following hints.

Instagram YouTube Facebook Twitter. What Type of Learner Are You? Take the quiz Goal: Determine how you learn best so you can find more effective ways to study. Directions: Circle the best answer for each question. Choose one answer from the following questions If I have to learn how to do something, I learn best when I: Watch someone show me how. Hear someone tell me how. Try to do it myself. When I spell, I verify accuracy by: Looking at the word to see if it looks correct.

Sounding the word out in my head. Getting a feeling about the correctness of the spelling. When asked to give directions, I: See the actual places in my mind as I say them or prefer to draw them.

Have no difficulty giving them verbally. Have to point or move my body as I give them. When I have to remember a list of items, I remember them best if I: Write them down. Repeat them over and over to myself. Move around and use my fingers to name each item. When solving a problem, I: Write or draw diagrams to see it. Talk myself through it. When I am adding numbers, I verify my answer by: Looking at the numbers to see if they are correct.

Counting the numbers in my head or out loud.