VARK Test Results

• Visual: 4
• Aural: 7
• Read/Write: 11
• Kinesthetic: 9



I am slightly surprised by my VARK questionnaire results as I thought my learning type would put more of an emphasis on Kinesthetics due in part to my past experiences with computing, specifically programming, where I have preferred to learn via reading lecture notes or books on the subject and then enforcing that learning with practical exercises so that I can better absorb the knowledge.

I am not at all surprised that my Visual learning score was so low; when I am in lectures or when I was in classes at college I preferred to focus on what I could read rather than educational videos or images that I would find my attention wandering during watching. In college the classes I preferred were those in which the teachers gave out handouts with lists, notes or, in the case of Sociology, reports written by people in those circumstances.

Because of this it comes as no surprise to me that my highest VARK score was Read/Write especially as for my GCSE and part of my SAT years at school I taught my self mainly through textbooks and very much disliked listening to longwinded explanations of something even though I would be quite happy to sit and read several pages or books on the same subject.

Although the results are a few points out I believe that a more Multimodal approach to learning is what suits me; focussing on Read/Write and Kinesthetics by reading and writing lecture notes, reading books on my subjects of interest and taking my own notes and by doing practical exercises (something that I am keen on) especially in programming modules so that I may enforce what I have read and written with a hands-on approach to better commit the subjects to memory.