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Vark - A Guide to Learning

VARK - A Guide to Learning
VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-out information. Take the questionnaire and use the helpsheets.

Learning Styles Websites

Learning Styles and Approaches to Studying
Learning styles are relatively consistent preferences for adopting particular learning processes, irrespective of the task or problem presented but generally relating to educational or workplace settings. Learning strategies and approaches to studying are specific to education and training, being more context-specific ways of tackling learning tasks that involve characteristic combinations of intentions, learning processes, and study activities.

How to Determine Your Learning Style

Not everyone has the same learning style. In order to understand how you can learn to the best of your abilities, you should be aware of how you learn. Some of these tests can help you to understand you, and your learning style.

Different Types of Learning Styles
from Rassmussen College
Identifying Your Learning Styles
from EducationPlanner.org
Learning Styles Inventory
from Georgia Department of Education

Now You Can Learn to Learn

Once you understand how you learn, you can look at some of these resources to understand how to learn with your style.

Study Skills Series from Athabasca University
Help for studying for exams
8 Ways to Remember Anything
From Psychology Today
Listening and Note-Taking Strategies
from UNSW Sydney
How to Study Effectively
from eHow