Auditory

__Books are very important to me
__I can hear words in my head before I read, speak, or write them down
__I get more out of listening to the radio or a spoken-word cassette than I do from television or films
__I enjoy word games like Scrabble, Boggle, Anagrams, or Password
__I enjoy entertaining myself or others with tongue twisters, nonsense rhymes, or puns
__English, social studies, and history were easier for me in school than math and science
__When I drive down a freeway, I pay more attention to the words written on signs than to the scenery
__My conversation includes frequent references to things that I've read or heard

Ways you can utilize your auditory strengths and abilities:

• Attend discussions and tutorials
• Discuss topics with others
• Discuss topics with your teachers
• Explain new ideas to other people
• Use a tape recorder during lectures
• Remember the interesting examples, stories, and jokes from class
• Describe the overheads, pictures, and other visuals to somebody who was not there
• Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them
• Ask others to "hear" your understanding of a topic
• Read your textbook and summarized notes aloud
• Speak your answers aloud

Visual

I often see clear visual images when I close my eyes
__I am sensitive to color
__I frequently use a camera or camcorder to record what I see around me
__I enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles, mazes, and other visual puzzles
__I can generally find my way around unfamiliar territory
__I like to draw or doodle
__Geometry was easier for me than algebra in school
__I can comfortably imagine how something might appear if it were looked down upon from directly above (a "bird's-eye view")
__I prefer looking at reading material that is heavily illustrated

Ways you can utilize your visual strengths and abilities:

• Pay attention to or use gestures
• Utilize pictures, videos, posters, slides
• Look for diagrams, charts/graphs, and pictures in your textbooks
• Underline, highlight, and use different colors, or symbols in your notes
• Try different arrangements for lecture/book information
• Convert lecture and book notes into pictures or display them graphically
• Practice turning your visuals (back) into words
• Recall the pictures made by (the look of) the pages of your textbook

Hands-on/Kinesthetic

__I engage in at least one sport or physical activity on a regular basis
__I find it difficult to sit still for long periods of time
__I like working with my hands at concrete activities such as sewing, weaving, carving, carpentry, or model building
__My best ideas often come to me when I'm out for a long walk or a jog or when I'm engaged in some other kind of physical activity
__I often like to spend my free time outdoors
__I frequently use hand gestures or other forms of body language when conversing with someone
__I need to touch things in order to learn more about them
__I would describe myself as well coordinated
__I need to practice a new skill rather than simply reading about it or seeing a video that describes it

Ways you can utilize your kinesthetic strengths and abilities:

• Take Lab classes
• Go on field trips
• Look for examples of principles
• Use real-life examples and real-world applications
• Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts
• Find hands-on approaches
• Utilize trial and error in learning new concepts
• Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea
• Put plenty of examples into your summary
• Write practice answers to (possible) exam questions
• Role play the exam situation in your own room