Do you like to build things with your hands, play on sports teams, or enjoy making pottery? Maybe you sing in a choir, enjoy creating rhythms and raps, or just love to listen to really loud music. Knowing yourself and how you personally feel wide awake and excited about life is a key to determining what kind of learner you are.

1. Verbal/Linguistic: Use words effectively. Learn best by speaking, writing, and reading. Often enjoy telling stories and doing crossword puzzles.

Study hint: Think of and write possible test questions. Re-write notes. Underline important words in the text and in the notes.

2. Mathematical/Logical: Good with numbers and logic problems. Generally are very precise and methodical.

Study hint: Make diagrams to review. Outline key steps or topics with subtopics listed underneath.

3. Visual/Spatial: Think in terms of pictures. Enjoy charts, graphs, maps, tables, art, and mazes.

Study hint: Map out important topics and connected ideas, then try to redraw this from memory. Make drawings on how topics relate to one another. Put important topics in a table.

4. Bodily/Kinesthetic: Prefer physical activity. Enjoy building things and working with their hands. Generally are coordinated and athletic and like to participate.

Study hint: Review out loud. Visualize difficult problems. Walk around while you study.

5. Musical/Rhythmic: Enjoy many forms of music and rhythm. Sensitive to sounds, remember melodies easily.

Study hint: Play music while studying, if it is not distracting. Recite notes or text in rhythm. Create rhymes to remember lists or processes.

6. Intrapersonal: Exceptionally aware of their own feelings and values. Generally reserved, self-motivated, and intuitive.

Study hint: Make time to review in a solitary place. Create and take your own sample test.

7. Interpersonal: Outgoing person. Do well with cooperative learning. Sensitive to the feelings of others.

Study hint: Develop a study group. Ask yourself or others questions out loud.

8. Naturalistic: Enjoy the outdoors. Often recognize details in natural things, such as rocks, clouds, or plants. They can often observe fine distinctions between similar things.

Study hint: Study outdoors or listen to a natural sounds tape while studying. Organize all the details of each topic into larger, related groups.