There are many ways people learn. Most people have two or three ways of learning that work particularly well for them. Though it is an evolving science, finding out about your learning styles and the best tactics for using them can help you enormously in learning to study efficiently.
Whether or not you know what learning styles you have, try taking the very simplistic online learning styles survey at survey, or (my favorite) Learning Styles
After you "Take the inventory" continue to "See the summary" and look at "Understanding and identifying the different styles" (all of the items in quotations are links from the above site).
Despite what this site claims, there are far more learning styles than what this survey suggests. Please also read the learning style information the at Learning Sytles overview page.
Answer all of the following in Blackboard RamCT:
What do you think your strongest learning styles are (list at least two) (see the inventory below if you simply don't know)?
And for each learning style: