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Recognize your learning style and score more!

Pavan Chauhan | January 16th, 2013 at 07:18pm

With exams looming large in the horizon these days, we expect that all you students out there will be busy gearing up for the challenging month ahead. After round-the-year study sessions, the time has now come to refresh all the topics so that they can be on your finger tips during exams.

To make your learning effective you can add a customized touch to your revision notes by tailoring it as per your own learning style.

Are you wondering what ‘learning style’ means?

Learning Style refers to the characteristic ways in which an individual acquires, perceives and processes information. It is therefore important to note that there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, ‘good’ or ‘bad’ learning styles, but only preferred learning styles. Thus, in simple words, a dominant style that helps you process and learn information faster and in a better manner can be classified as your learning style.

On the basis of their learning styles, learners can be broadly classified into three types i.e. Visual learners, Auditory learners and Tactile learners, each with their respective learning styles.

Which category do you belong to?

Here are a few points that will give your some more insight on the prime characteristics of the different types of learners and help you customize your revision notes according to the style that suits you the best.

  • Visual learners:

    These learners grasp a concept best by looking at graphics, watching a demonstration, or reading about it. So, while preparing their revision notes, visual learners are advised to supplement their learning with pictures, charts, maps, graphs etc.

  • Use bright colours to highlight important text in the revision notes.

  • To speed up the pace of revision and make learning effective you can also try visualize the given information as a picture or an image.

  • This will help you retain information for a longer period of time and will aid in better recall value during the exam.

  • Auditory learners:

    Such learners prefer listening to concepts being explained rather than reading about them in text books.

  • You prefer classroom discussions over individual study sessions.

  • You feel the need for an absolutely quiet place for attempting to process key information into the memory.

  • You feel uncomfortable in handling distractions created by noisy surrounding.

  • You can listen to pre-recorded lectures on a tape recorder to process your learning effectively.

  • Try creating musical jingles, using mnemonics, and discussing ideas verbally to aid speedy revision.

  • Tactile learners:

    These learners process information best through a ‘hands-on’ experience. If you think that actually doing an activity is the easiest way to learn information then your dominant learning style is that of a tactile learner.

  • While preparing revision notes, a tactile learner is advised to write or type his own notes.

  • While studying these learners may want to hold the revision notes in their hand instead of keeping it on the table.

  • To further make learning effective they can even prepare flash cards for each step in a procedure based concept and regularly challenge themselves to arrange the cards in the correct sequence.

  • These learners should also include a lot of real life examples and case studies in their revision notes.

  • To strengthen your learning, we suggest you to play your way through concept-based puzzles and games available on meritnation.com.

So which style suits you best? Write in and tell us how your exam preparation is faring!

All the very best for your exams!

Cheers!

Team Meritnation



19 Comments Add your own

  • 1. gyanranjan jha  |  January 16th, 2013 at 7:45 pm

    i learing concept from a diffrent manner to write something time to time regularly u lean the concept easily and write them fastly in the exam this is my own view. i didnot start the preparation because i am confuse that how and when i start study to complete the hole syllabus so give me a chapterwise chart timetable to complete the sylabus in the end of februry

  • 2. sajida  |  January 16th, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    thnx…..meritnation nn provise some sample papers too..!!

  • 3. g vivekchary  |  January 17th, 2013 at 4:12 pm

    good i like it

  • 4. Saif ali  |  January 18th, 2013 at 11:38 pm

    sir ,i am very taking admision very late and i have no more time for 11th so please give me a chart for how learn that my sallebous complited from starting chapter.

  • 5. ATMIYA  |  January 21st, 2013 at 8:29 am

    pls send me a few papers of PSA . . .

  • 6. saajan  |  January 21st, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    Its very nice to be a part of meritnation. I want some technique for solving problems of JEE.

  • 7. karuna  |  January 25th, 2013 at 11:07 am

    give me a chart so that i can revise the whole syllabus in the end of februry . and also give me sample papers for psa

  • 8. divya parik  |  January 29th, 2013 at 10:40 am

    sir, i had taken admission late and i didn’t have much time for 11th. so please give me a chart
    or pattern of study so that i can complete my syllabus quikly

  • 9. Mohd soyab  |  February 4th, 2013 at 12:53 am

    Sir I m have no time to revise 11th class course so plsss suggest n help me in completing my syllabus before NEET

  • 10. Mohd soyab  |  February 4th, 2013 at 12:56 am

    It seems 11 class course is burden plsss help me to manage this burden n provide notes to complete my course as soon as possible for NEET

  • 11. Aishwarya.S  |  February 10th, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    when is the finalised date of the NEET exam ? please answer its urgent

  • 12. dhawal  |  February 12th, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    if I opt for crash course ..all the chapters will get unlock???
    plzz tell me fast

  • 13. Jeeteshwari Mehta  |  February 12th, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    Meritnation is quiet good. It is helping me alot. But then also i am quiet tensed. I have planned to give NEET this year. But i m problems completing the syllabus. Please help me. Either provide me a chart or something so that i can complete my syllabus accordingly and crack neet easily. Please help.

  • 14. meritnation  |  February 13th, 2013 at 12:21 pm

    Hi Dhawal,

    Yes! all the chapters, revision notes, chapter tests and model test papers will be unlocked in the Crash Course.

  • 15. YOGITA  |  February 13th, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    SIR OR MAM I WANT SOM QUESTIONS FOR CLASS 8TH THE QUESTIONS WHICH YOU THINK ARE IMPORTANT AND CAN COME IN THE EXAM . FOR FINAL EXAMS. AND SEND THEM BEFORE 15 TH FEBUARY.
    MY SYLLABUS IS CHAPTER 5, 8 ,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 ETC

  • 16. babu arul  |  February 17th, 2013 at 5:45 pm

    Sir i have problem I
    n my network connection.i an online now . Please tell sir

  • 17. Aditi  |  February 22nd, 2013 at 7:18 pm

    Which books should be referred by d SSC students for Neet except the text book??

  • 18. nupur  |  February 25th, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    res.sir/maam i want to get percentage abv 90 pls tell me how to prepare to get it

  • 19. Maulik Haldar  |  February 27th, 2013 at 10:56 pm

    sir/mam i am in class 10cbse now..my my exams which is school based is starting from 16th march plz give or send me some tips and imp questions that might come in different subjects plz send it quickly

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