Learning Styles: Strengths, Weaknesses And Preferences

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Learning styles
Learning styles is different ways to look at learning and it is usually based on your strengths, weaknesses and preferences. There are three styles of learning: Auditory, which is relating to hearing, visual, which is relating to seeing or sight and tactile, which is the connection of senses of touch. My learning style that got the highest for the quiz was tactile with 40% and the others, auditory and visual both 30%. This means it is easier for me to learn in hands on activities and using fine motor movement rather than listening to a teacher or watching a demonstration. The scores for the learning style quiz was very much even but I probably need to work on my visual learning and auditory learning because they were a bit lower than the other one.

VIQ
The results that I got from my VIQ I was mostly expecting as I have a fair idea of what career I want when I finish my schooling. In my interest category my top 3 categories were practical or mechanical with 35 points creative and artistic with 27 points and then organizing or clerical with 19 points. I
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It also relates to how I deal with situations outside my comfort zone and adapt to different social environments. The personal and social ability is about learning about myself and how I learn. Goal 1 requires me to be disciplined in my work, I need to work hard and learn to be independent in my learning. Goal 2 requires me to also be self-disciplined in my practicing of futsal. I also continue growing my social skills to be able to interact and work well with my team. The third goal requires me to step out side my comfort zone, research areas in the industry and take opportunities that normally I might say no to because it could require me to interact with new

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