VARK Questionnaire

The VARK questionnaire gives you a rough preference to your type of learning style. You can chose more than one option from each question and at the end you put your answers onto the scoring chart to find out your learning style. I did the questionnaire and i got 2 V's (visual) 5 A's (aural) 5 R's (reading/writing) and 4 K's (kinesthetic). This means that my preferred learning styles would be aural and reading/writing. I agree that i find it easier to learn when i listen and when people are explaining things, but i personally don't think i find it easier to learn when i read and write stuff down. From past experience of revising for GCSE's and other tests i found it difficult to take the information in by by reading it and writing it down. I find that what i read just doesn't stick in my head and if i write something down, i forget what i wrote before then when i read it all back it doesn't seem to make sense. Overall i think the questionnaire is a good way to find a learning style that you might not have realised you had before.

Learning Line

This is my learning line which shows some of the things I have learnt since I started school. I think that my time in college was when I learnt the most about what I wanted to do and I also learnt a lot about myself. Obviously infant school through to secondary school is where I learnt basic skills and gained some intelligence, but I feel college was when I started to gain valuable learning skills. I learnt a lot about design programmes and concepts, and also how to present work to make it stand out and look impressive. Although I did not enjoy the course as much as I thought I would have done, it still taught me valuable skills. After college I thought that I did not want to go to university so I was working for 2 years and I also learnt how to drive. I worked in a retail shop where I gained communication skills and I also got more confidence as I had to deal with customers and sort out whatever problems I came across. Eventually I started to get bored of what I was doing and realised that I really wanted to start learning more and further my education. I feel that because I took 2 years out of education I am more motivated to get work done and do it with the skills and confidence I have learnt from else where.