Finding out your preferred learning styles
Look at each question and then decide which method you would choose to help you learn. There are no right or wrong answers. Put a tick in the box to make your choice.
1. Timestables/multiplication/formulae
(a) Cover and picture it
(b) Saying out loud
(c) Adding on fingers
2. Spelling a word
(a) Write it down
(b) Imagine what it looks like
(c) Say each letter out
3. Learning a new word in health and social care
(a) Repeating it out loud to yourself
(b) Writing it out over and over again
(c) Looking at a picture next to the word
4. Learning a Health and social care fact
(a) Watch a DVD
(b) Listen to a person on a CD or radio explaining what happened
(c) Role play – act out what happened
5. Learning how something works
(a) Take the object apart and try to put it back together
(b) Look at a diagram or a picture on the board
(c) Listen to someone tell you about it
6. Learning a story or case study
(a) Tell someone else the story or case study
(b) Draw pictures/cartoons to tell the story or case study
(c) Imagine the story or case study
7. Learning a new exercise on a new piece of equipment in the gym
(a) Watch a demonstration
(b) Repeat back the instructions to the trainer
(c) Do it
8. Learning a new aerobic exercise/dance routine/move in a sport
(a) Let the trainer support you through the routine so you feel how to do it
(b) Look at diagrams of the move on cards
(c) Talk through the routine with a friend
9. Learn how to use a piece of new equipment to measure health
(a) Listen to a friend explain how to use it
(b) Teach someone else how to use it
(c) Watch someone else use it
10. Learning how to make a curry
(a) Look at the instructions on the packet
(b) Listen to an CD or radio about what to do
(c) Try to make it
11. Learning to count in a foreign language
(a) Sing the words
(b) Look at cards or posters
(c) Play French bingo
12. Learning how arthritis develops
(a) Listen to a GP telling you
(b) Make a model
(c) Look at a diagram
Answers
Circle the letter in the box that relates to your answer.
Questions / Choice (a) / Choice (b) / Choice (c)1 / V / A / K
2 / K / V / A
3 / A / K / V
4 / V / A / K
5 / K / V / A
6 / A / K / V
7 / V / A / K
8 / K / V / A
9 / A / K / V
10 / V / A / K
11 / A / V / K
12 / A / K / V
Add up the total number of letters and enter into the table below.
Learning style / TotalsV = Visual/seeing
A = Auditory/listening and speaking
K = Kinaesthetic/ doing/ practical
The largest total shows your preferred learning style.
You will have some of the all the learning styles.
If the totals are about even you probably enjoy using all of the learning styles.
You can use your knowledge of your learning style to revise and learn your work.
Now look at the activities for your preferred learning style.
You can use these to learn your work for the exam.