How to Use Learning Styles to Study for Exams

Study Strategies 
If you have a strong preference for learning by aural methods, you should 
use some or all of the following: 

INTAKE
To gain information: 
• attend classes 
• attend discussions and tutorials 
• discuss topics with others 
• discuss topics with your teachers 
• explain new ideas to other people 
• use a tape recorder 
• remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes... 
• describe the overheads, pictures and other visuals to somebody who 
was not there 
• leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling' 

Study Better
To make a learnable package: 

Convert your notes into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1) 

Your notes may be poor because you prefer to listen. You will need 
to expand your notes by talking with others and collecting notes 
from the textbook. 

Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them. 

Ask others to 'hear' your understanding of a topic. 

Read your summarized notes aloud. 

Explain your notes to another 'aural' person. 

OUTPUT
To perform well in any test, assignment or examination: 

Imagine talking with the examiner 

Listen to your voices and write them down. 

Spend time in quiet places recalling the ideas. 

Practice writing answers to old exam questions. 

Speak your answers aloud or inside your head.