Which Type Of Learner Are You?
Often students spend hours, days or weeks studying and preparing for exams and tests, but they don’t see their efforts reflected in their results. Often this is because they have opted to use a passive way of learning instead of an active way of learning. Passive learning is when one takes information in without trying to reproduce it. Active learning, on the other hand, involves reproducing what one has learnt. In active learning one usually condenses the information while reproducing it. Examples of passive learning include re-reading (not out loud), copying of notes, and typing notes on the computer without changing or shortening them and even highlighting. Examples of active learning include doing past papers, mind mapping, writing index/flash cards, annotating texts and repeating out loud. There isn’t a single wrong or right way of active learning and each student can have a different learning style. Currently there are 7 known learning styles: Aural learners usually learn be...