Questionnaire: Learning Styles.

Do you want to know your strongest learning style?

Write the score that most applies to you next to each sentence below:

5-almost always
4-fairly often
3-sometimes
2-rarely
1-almost never

Score Statement
----- 1. It helps me understand if I discuss things with other people.
----- 2. When learning, I watch the teacher's face a lot.
----- 3. I use colours when I take down notes or read (e.g. highlighter pens, different coloured pens).
----- 4. I get good ideas while I am doing some kind of physical activity.
----- 5. I prefer spoken to written instructions.
----- 6. I'd rather listen to a tape than read about a topic.
----- 7. I prefer someone to draw me a map than to tell me directions to somewhere.
----- 8. I do less well on written tests than on oral tests.
----- 9. I don't like sitting at a desk, but study, for example, on the floor, on the bed, in all kinds of places.
----- 10. I take notes but they are a bit of a mess.
----- 11. I can easily understand maps, charts, graphs, etc.
----- 12. I can't sit still for very long.
----- 13. I like making things with my hands.
----- 14. If I am doing some work, having the radio on annoys me.
----- 15.I like to take a lot of breaks when I study.
----- 16. I use a lot of body language (e.g. gestures)when talking.
----- 17. I can't picture things in my head very well.
----- 18. I would rather start doing an activity instead of listening to instructions about how to do it.
----- 19. I like telling jokes and can remember them well.
----- 20. I take lots of notes when I read or listen to a lecture.
----- 21. I doodle when I listen to a lecture.
----- 22. If I don't look at a speaker, I can still follow well what he or she is saying.
----- 23. I like creating models of what I am learning.
----- 24. In a test, I can visualise the place on the page where I learnt something.
----- 25. I like making projects better than writing reports.
----- 26. I like to talk when I write.
----- 27. If I read, I 'listen' to the words in my head.
----- 28. If I write something down, I remember it better.
----- 29. I can't remember what people look like very well; I remember better what they say.
----- 30. If I want to remember something, for example someone's telephone number, it helps if I make a picture of it in my head.
----- 31. If I study aloud, I can remember better.
----- 32. I can see pictures in my head.
----- 33. I would rather read than be read to.


Transfer your scores and add them up:

2----------4----------1----------
3----------9----------5----------
7----------10---------6----------
11---------12---------8----------
14---------13---------17---------
20---------15---------19---------
24---------16---------22---------
28---------18---------26---------
30---------21---------27---------
32---------23---------29---------
33---------25---------31---------
Total:
---------- ---------- ----------
Visual- Kinaesthetic- Auditory-

Your highest score indicates which your strongest learning style is, your lowest score shows your weakest. There is no perfect learning style: everyone is, to some degree, a mixture of all three learning styles, but most people may have one learning style which is dominant. A score of more than 40 indicates a particularly strong style; a score of under 20 indicates quite a weak style.