Visual learners mainly use sight and images to learn. This study tips sheet provides 17 tips for visual learners to improve their academic performance, including getting an eye exam, using different colored notes, using flashcards and drawings, and finding interactive visual activities. The tips encourage finding the right balance of visual study techniques mixed with a student's own strategies. While visual learning is important, students often use a combination of visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles.

1. STUDY TIPS SHEET FOR VISUAL LEARNERS
Visual learners mainly use their sight, images and visual concepts to memorise
and learn. After students know their type of learning, they should look for some
information, strategies and tips to improve their learning. In this Sheet we are
going to give you some useful tips to improve your academic performance:
1. Go to the eye doctor to make sure you do not need glasses
2. Buy some artificial tears to prevent your eye from drying after an
excessive use
3. Always have enough light in your study area
4. Arrive early to class so you can sit near the teacher and the blackboard
5. When the teacher explains, pay attention to all the visual resources
(power points, slideshows, etc.) but don’t forget to listen!
6. Rewrite your class notes so they are more easy to read, it will allow your
sight to relax
7. Summarise everything, try to make it visually attractive
8. Underline and write your notes with different colours (e.g. examples in
green, definitions in red, specific dates in black)
9. Use flashcards and drawings to link concepts with images
10. Complement your notes with all sort of visual complements
(documentaries, videos, images, etc.)
11. Use acronyms and mnemonics to memorise a list of concepts (e.g. USA
United States of America)
12. To get rid of the most difficult tests, record yourself reading the lesson,
then listen to your recording and read to your notes at the same time
13. Avoid any visual distraction in your studying area
14. Create and hang posters in your study area with all your tasks and the
concepts which you find harder to memorise
15. Search for interactive activities which involve a lot of visual learning, such
as linking images to concepts (vocabulary)

2. 16. Try to find out museums and places related to the topic or topics which
you are studying
17. Make sure that your leisure activities both before and after studying don’t
involve much visual effort (television, videogames, cinema, painting, etc.)
These tips are not to be strictly followed. We recommend each single student to
take a look at them, and try them. You can also mix them with your own
studying strategies, and maybe you will improve even further. Remember that
almost all students are a combination of the 3 types of learning, so don’t forget
about the other two.
Credits
Cristina Llordés Morell
Nogay Ndiaye Mir
Josefa Peroy Mestre