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How You Learn
Uncover your learning style to find out what  approach works best for you. Take this survey to identify your learning style, then continue reading through this site to learn strategies for improvement.

1. During your leisure time, which would you prefer to do?
Read
Listen to the radio
Play a game
2. If you were going to choose one activity to join, which would it be?
The Book Club
The Debate Team
The Thespian/Drama Club
3. Which do you do most often during class?
Look at pictures or illustrations
Listen to lecturer or professor
Actively participate in class discussion
4. Which is more prevalent when you are thinking about someone?
The way they appear
The sound of their voice
What they are doing, or what you are doing with them
5. When you enter a party, what it the first thing you do?
Look around and see what is going on
Talk to someone
Try to actively do something
6. What do you remember best?
Scenes or scenery
Words or voices
Actions or events
7. When you are studying, what is the best way for you to remember something?
Study it
Recite it around
Write it a few times
8. What assignment would you prefer?
Reading a book
Giving a speech
Doing a project
9. When you study, what is most important?
A clear desk
A quiet room
A place where you feel relaxed
10. How do you prefer to obtain information?
In writing
By phone
Through research

Tindall, J. (1989) Peer Power, Book 2: Applying Peer Helper Skills,
St. Charles, MD: Accelerated Development.

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