How Your Learning Style Changes IELTS Preparation

Today you’ll find out how your learning style changes IELTS preparation, to make your studies more effective.

You can be more than one learning style!

Visual

This learner prefers learning via images and pictures, and has well-developed spatial understanding.

• Use colors to organize your notes– colored paper and pens.
• Use diagrams to remember information. For example, draw your essay templates like a process diagram, with boxes and arrows.
• When brainstorming, use the mind map technique.

Aural

Sounds and music help this learner tune in to information more easily.

• Sign up for a course that delivers information in lecture form, so you can listen to them.
•  When learning new vocabulary, always say the word out loud many times, in a sentences.
• Read out loud.
• When trying to remember steps and strategies, make them into a song that you can sing to yourself.

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Verbal

This learner loves words, either spoken, written, or both!

• If speaking and/or writing come easily to you, you still must focus on what IELTS requires for high scores. Even native speakers don’t get 9’s unless they prepare for the exam!
• Take a lot of notes. When learning new vocabulary, say the word out loud or write it repeatedly.
• Try saying the strategies out loud that you want to remember, and record yourself.

Physical

This person learns through body movement.

• Listen to lectures while walking.
• Keep notes on cards, instead of notebook pages, so you can move them around.
• Writing and drawing diagrams also work for this learning style.

Logical

This learner enjoys math and systems.

• Write strategies and templates out in equation like form (i.e. topic + reason + example)
• Learn the reasons for the strategies, and how they connect to the scoring system.
• Make a lot of lists.
• Don’t get distracted by over-analyzing things.

Social

This person prefers learning with other people.

• Form study groups, online or in person.
• Talk through strategies and skills with others.
• Verbal communication comes easily, but remember to still focus on the formal expectations.
• Try to limit the ideas your expressing in Speaking and Writing to keep communication organized.

Solitary

Solitary learners do best acquiring information alone.

• Access information and practice by yourself.
• Talk out loud to yourself every day, to bring out verbal communication.
• Seek out another person to practice speaking with before your exam, even if you don’t want to!
• Define clear study goals for yourself.

Which learning style are you?

Tell us about your IELTS preparation methods in the comments section below!