Job Search Learning Styles Questionnaire

This questionnaire will help you to discover what your best learning style is. Your learning
style is simply the best method that you learn new information/skills. There are three
different learning styles:1. Visual this means you best learn things by seeing tasks done first yourselves.
2. Auditory this means you best learn things by having it explained to you.
3. Kinaesthetic this means you best learn by doing new things yourself.
Place a tick by your answer(s) You may tick more one than box for each question!
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic
1. When operating new equipment
for the first time I prefer to

Read the
instructions

Listen to or
ask for an
explanation

have a go and learn

by trial and error

2. When seeking travel direction I

Look at a map

Follow my nose or
maybe use a compass

3. When cooking a new dish I

Follow a
recipe

4. To teach someone something I

Write
instructions

Ask for
spoken
directions
Call a friend
for
explanation
Explain
verbally

5. I tend to say

I see what
you mean

I know how you

feel

6. I tend to say

show me

I hear what
you are
saying
tell me

7. I tend to say

watch how I
do it
Write a letter

listen to me
explain
Phone

you have a go

Museums or
galleries
Look and
decide
Read the
brochures

Music or
conversation
Discuss with
staff
Listen to
recommendati
ons
Discuss with
friends
I talk through
with tutor
exactly what
I am supposed
to do
I talk through
the options in
my head
I listen to the
lyrics and the
beats

8. Complaining about faulty goods, I

tend to

9. I prefer these leisure activities

10. When shopping, generally I tend
to
11. Choosing a holiday I

12. Choosing a new car I

13. Learning a new skill

14. Choosing a restaurant menu

15. When listening to a band

16. When concentrating I

Read the
reviews
I watch what
the tutor is
doing

I imagine
what the food
will look like
I sing along to
the lyrics (in
my head or
out loud)
Focus on the
words or

Discuss the
problem and

Follow my instinct
tasting as I cook
Demonstrate and let
them have a go

let me try

Go back to the
store, or send the
faulty item to the
head office
Physical activities or
making things
Try on, handle or
test
Imagine the
experience
Test-drive what you
fancy
I like to give it a try
and work it out as I
go along by doing it

I imagine what the

food will taste like
I move in time with
the music

Move a lot, fiddle

with pens and pencils

pictures in
front of me
17. I remember things best by

Writing notes
or keeping
printed
details

18. My first memory is of

Looking at
something
Visualise the
worst-case
scenarios

19. When anxious I

20. I feel especially connected to

others because of
21. When I revise for an exam I

22. When explaining something to

someone, I tend to

23. My main interests are

24. Most of my free time is spent

25. When I first contact a new

person
26. I first notice how people
27. If I am very angry

28. I find it easiest to remember

29. I think I can tell someone is
lying because
30. When Im meeting with an old
friend
TOTALS

How they look

Write lots of
revision notes
(using lots of
colours)
Show them
what I mean

Photography,
watching films
or people
watching
Watching
television
I arrange a
face to face
meeting
Look and
dress
I keep
replaying in
my mind what
it is that has
upset me
Faces
They avoid
looking at you
I say "it's
great to see
you!"
VISUAL

possible
solutions in my
head
Saying them
aloud or
repeating
words and key
points
Being spoken
to
Talk over in
my head what
worries me
most
What they
say to me
I talk over my
notes, to
myself or to
other people
Explain to
them in
different
ways until
they
understand
Listening to
music, radio
or talking to
friends
Talking to
friends
I talk to them
on the
telephone
Sound and
speak
I shout lots
and tell people
how I feel

Names
Their voice
changes
I say "it's
great to hear
your voice!"
AUDITORY

and touch unrelated

things
Doing and practising
the activity, or
imagining it being
done
Doing something
Cant sit still, fiddle
and move around
constantly
How they make me
feel
Imagine making the
movement or
creating the formula
Encourage them to
try and talk them
through the idea as
they try

Physical/sports
activities or fine
wine, foods and
dancing
Doing physical
activity or making
things
I try to get
together to share an
activity
Stand and move
I stomp about, slam
doors and throw
things

Things I have done

The vibes I get from
them
I give them a hug or
a handshake
KINAESTHETIC