In This Section

• Overview
• Center for Children's Rights
  • Certificate in Children’s Rights
  • The CCR Fellowship Program
  • CCR Colloquia Series
  • The Children’s Rights Clinic
  • Whittier Journal of Child & Family Advocacy
  • National Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition
  • 2013 Distinguished Speaker Series
• Center for Intellectual Property Law
  • Welcome
  • The CIPL Fellowship Program
  • The CIPL Certificate Program
  • Intellectual Property Externships
  • 2013 Colloquia and Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Summer Opportunities In Intellectual Property
  • Extracurricular Opportunities in Intellectual Property Law
• Center for International and Comparative Law
  • The CICL Fellowship Program
  • The CICL Certificate Program
  • The CICL Colloquia Series
  • CICL Symposium
  • International Law Society
  • Study Abroad Opportunities
  • 2013 Spring Distinguished Speaker Series
• Legal Clinics
  • Children’s Advocacy Clinic
  • Family Violence Clinic
  • Special Education Clinic
• Private and Public Externship Program
  • Externship Opportunities
• Institute of Student and Graduate Academic Support
  • Academic Support Program
    • Introduction to Law Skills
      • Briefing
      • IRAC
      • Outlining
      • VARK
• Institute for Trial and Appellate Practice
  • Advocacy Competitions
  • ITAP Concentration
• Institute for Writing and Professional Skills
  • Student Learning Goals
• Study Abroad
  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Toulouse, France
  • Nanjing, China
  • Israel

VARK

What impact does knowing your learning style have on your law school performance?

What is VARK? VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-out information.

What is a learning style? A learning style has 18+ dimensions (preferences for temperature, light, food intake, biorhythms, working with others, deep and surface approaches). VARK is about one preference – your preference for taking in, and putting out information in a learning context.

Why should you determine what your learning style is? A learning style influences how you understand and process information best. Determining what type of learner you are earlier can influence how you learn best (aka how you study best!).

What types of learners are there? There are four types of learners. Keep in mind that you may find that you are a multi modal learner, learning in multiple styles.

1. Visual Learner: learning through visual aids.
2. Aural: learning through hearing the material
3. Reading/Writing: learning through reading and writing out the material
4. Kinesthetic: learning through doing

Please take the VARK test at this link to discover what your learning style is: http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp and how you should apply that information to your own study techniques.

Information for this page adapted from VARK website

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