cient learner. Just because you guys – they would much rather
have a dominant, preferred style listen to somebody explain the
doesn’t mean other methods
topic than try to understand it
can’t be improved, to bring up straight off paper. Reciting out
your skills in all three styles.
loud is a great way for them to
learn, or recording themselves explaining a topic then listening back.
There are three key learning
styles: visual, auditory and kin- Having music on in the background can be a great study
aesthetic.
method for an auditory learner,
though some find other backVisual
ground noise really distracting – a
Visual learners are those irritat- chatty library is a nightmare,
ing guys who seem to absorb where listening to jazz in their
their text books (well, the most bedroom at home might be ideal.
lucky are anyway).
Kinaesthetic
They learn best by visualising
information, putting it into a
graph, watching a demo, or
reading and memorising from
the book. They find it easiest to
learn like this, but may struggle
to focus when someone tries to
explain something verbally.
Kinaesthetic learners are best at
taking things in through hands-on
experience. Actually doing something rather than reading the
theory is a great way for them to
learn. They will struggle to learn
much through simple, visual methods – a great revising tip for a kinaesthetic learner is to continually
Auditory
rewrite notes in a more concise
Auditory learners are the com- form.
pletely the opposite to the visual
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