-So now you know what your Learning Style is, how will this help to make your learning more effective? Do you think this will help your personal development?

Now that I know that my learning style is Aural, I can use this to make my learning more effective by listening to sounds more or voices, like my teachers and tutorials online to learn more knowledge about things that I need to know.

If you were to do this test and you got a Visual learning style, the ways were you could use this to make your learning more effective is by using coloured highlighters to marks out notes, or identify key words or you could use the different colours or different types of information. You could also draw sketches or wee cartons that would relate to the topic that you’re learning about, these will then help you to locate a particular section and make them more memorable. Another which could be useful would be to pay attention to the layout of your notes, it might be more useful to use flow-charts or diagrams in certain subjects like science or math’s.

If you then got Auditory you could use this to your advantage by playing soothing music as you revise, as if you were to listen to a soft tempo beat it would then help you to relax rather than a faster tempo which could be rather distracting. You could also record some key points on a tape and play them over before you go to sleep. Another thing you could try is making your key points from your notes into a rhyme or a song which would help make these more memorable.

If you got a Kinaesthetic style which is something physical you could use the sticky notes memory technique, which is where you have your list of key words and you write each of them on a sticky note, you could even add in a small drawing nest to the word for more help, you then stick the notes at strategic points around your room, which is like at your light switch, next or a picture or a cupboard door handle, then you walk around the room stopping at each point reading the key word, after you’ve done that a few times you will then remember the words on the notes without having to actually walk around the room.  You can then use this system more than the once to help you remember different lists of keywords. To make sure than you don’t get confused with the different lists you can use different coloured sticky notes or different coloured pens or even a coloured circle in each corner.

Learning styles can help in an academic area by giving you a head start and also maximizing your learning potential, it also helps to enable you to succeed in your school/college or university.  They give you customized techniques so you can score better on exams and they allow you to learn in your own way through your own strategies. They can reduce the stress and frustration of your learning experiences and expands you existing learning and studying strategies and also showing you how to overcome the limitations of poor instructors.

Within the personal area, learning styles can help with increasing your self-confidence and improves your self-image. They give you an insight on your weaknesses, strengths and your habits, and then enable you to enjoy any learning process. Learning styles also inspires a greater curiosity, motivation for a life time of learning, and they show you how to take advantage of your natural skills.

In the professional area learning styles enables you to stay up-to-date professionally, and it would give you an edge over your competitors. They allow you to manage teams more effectively and guide you in delivering effective presentations to audiences. The styles would also help you improve your persuasive and sales skills, also helps you to improve on your cooperation among your colleagues and translates learning power into earning power.