The learning styles thing always confused me, because I would take the test to see which type I was, and get a different answer each time. I think it's because

The learning styles thing always confused me, because I would take the test to see which type I was, and get a different answer each time. I think it's because the way that you process different subjects just isn't necessarily consistent. Ex: - Anything related to music is auditory. I learned to read sheet music, but I can never "visualize" the sounds from that. I would just have to play it and see what comes out. If I heard the first couple notes of a song I've heard before though, I can easily hear the entire song in my head and then figure it out on an instrument. - Foreign languages, by contrast, I needed good printouts for. I'm slow at processing streaming sounds in real time, and even more so for unfamiliar languages. I think my brain just has to do a lot of post-processing with full context to make sense of verbal language. But I could read and write the languages just fine, and if the language is somewhat phonetic, I can lean on my spelling knowledge to speak it halfway decently. - anything technical or mathematical requires that I solve some sort of problem with it to understand - Any "softer" subject (psychology, history, economics) is best reinforced when I learn via interesting stories. I like that so many textbooks have those "real world application" sections or whatever to tie things into history or things I've seen in real life. A good orator though can also tell a compelling story to keep my attention engaged on the subject. The absolute worst though is when an educator makes a slide show, prints those slides out and hands them out before class starts, then reads the slides and answers questions. That pretty much guarantees I have no investment in the class, as I don't really have incentive to take notes or listen, and I won't be surprised by anything because it only takes like 3 minutes to actually skim everything and see it's just bullet points pulled from the text book.