How You Learn | Learning Styles

Everyone learns differently, and knowing your style accelerates growth. Tools like VARK reveal how you take in information, process experiences, and take action. Whether you learn best by seeing, doing, or collaborating, understanding your learning edge helps you adapt faster, work smarter, and thrive in any training or career development program.

VARK Questionnaire

VARK identifies your preferred learning style—Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, or Kinesthetic—helping you absorb and apply information effectively.

＞ Learn smarter, not harder by using your best style

＞ Improve retention by tailoring how you study or train

＞ Unlock faster skill development in school or at work

Three Primary VARK Styles 

The VAK learning styles model suggests that most people can be divided into one of three preferred styles of learning. These three styles are as follows, (there is no right or wrong learning style)

• Someone with a visual learning style has a preference for seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flipcharts, etc. These people will use phrases such as “show me” , “let’s have a look at that” and will be best able to perform a new task after reading the instructions or watching someone else do it first. These are the people who will work from lists and written directions and instructions.

• Someone with an auditory learning style has a preference for the transfer of information through listening: to the spoken word of self or others, of sounds and noises. These people will use phrases such as “tell me” and “let’s talk it over” and will be best able to perform a new task after listening to instructions from an expert. These are the people who enjoy receiving spoken instructions over the phone and have the ability to memorize all the lyrics to songs they hear!

• Someone with a kinesthetic learning style prefers physical experience—touching, feeling, holding, doing, practical hands-on experiences. These people will use phrases such as “Let me try” or “How do you feel?” and will be best able to perform a new task by going ahead and trying it out, learning as they go. These are the people who like to experiment hands-on and never look at the instructions first!

People commonly have a main preferred learning style, but this will be part of a blend of all three. Some people have a very strong preference; other people have a more even mixture of two, or less commonly, three styles. 

When you know your preferred learning style(s) you understand the type of learning that works best for you.

There is no right or wrong learning style. The point is that there are types of learning that are right for your own preferred learning style.