What's your learning style?

The following 8 question quiz will help you to pinpoint your learning style. What is a learning style? It's the way in which your brain best responds to information being presented. The explanation of both major types will follow the quiz as well as ways you can use your strengths (and limitations) to better remember.

1. I get the most out of a presentation when the speaker

    uses a lot of visual aids
    spends a lot of time explaining.

2. I'm studying a new language. The teacher uses a complicated new word

    I ask him/her to spell it out so I can write it down
    I ask him/her to repeat it out loud.

3. You receive an invitation for an out of town wedding in the mail. The written directions are on one piece of paper and the hand drawn map are on the other. Which one do you make sure to leave the house with.

    the map
    the directions typed out.

4. Someone shows you their vacation pictures. A week later you remember more vividly

    the amazing view from the top of the mountain.
    the story of what happened while they were hiking.

5. People are introducing themselves at the beginning of a new class you're taking. You are more likely to remember

    what they looked like.
    what they said about themselves

6. I go to visit a friend's new house for the first time. When asked to describe it later on I do so

    with ease. I can practically draw a floor plan to scale.
    with difficulty. I can't remember very many details.

7. When asked about the last book I read, I'll probably remember

    the cover's main colours or picture
    the title or author's name

8. If I know I have to remember something I'm more likely to,

    Write it down (all over the place)
    Say it out loud to my self repeatedly