Learning styles are the ways in which individuals  concentrate on,  process (internalize) and remember new and difficult information or skills.  Learning styles vary with age, achievement levels, culture, and individual processing of new information.
            Do you know your learning style?  It is valuable in your approach to law school exam preparation say experts in law school achievement.
            Metacognition is the term for acquiring a knowledge of one's own learning style and the process and products that flow from it.  In short, experts agree that successful learning outcomes depend on:

(1) constant awareness of learning style - most people are not exclusively auditory learners - people learn visually, tactually, etc.

(2) knowledge about structure of material to be learned - i.e. a legal opinion has a definite structure

(3) dynamic adjustment of  strategy and tactics as difficult or a different type of  material or information output  is encountered

            These concepts and others can be reviewed in the following law journal articles:

Boyle, Robin A. and Rita Dunn. “Teaching Law Students Through Individual Learning Styles.” Albany Law Review, 62,  No 1 (Fall 1998 ): 213 - See information about a learning styles assessment called (Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) on page 225

Boyle, Robin A. and Rita Dunn. “Employing Active Learning Techniques and Cognition in Law School: Shifting Energy from Professor to Student.”  University of Detroit at Mercy Law Review 81,  No. 1 (Fall 2003):1-30

 Wangerin, Paul T. , “Learning Strategies for Law Students.”  Albany Law Review  52,  No. 2,  (Winter ): 471- 528 - look especially for the section on the MURDER method of group study at page 487 and the CHRISTMAS TREE  approach to issue spotting at page 517.

The following internet sites contain valuable information on learning styles and study techniques:       

<http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html> - on-line learning style survey and analysis

<http://success.oregonstate.edu/learningstyles.html> - tips for successful learning

<http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/sq3r.html> - The SQ3R method - Survey, Question, Read Recite, and Review

<http://jmasms.nbed.nb.ca/cornell.html> - Summary of the Cornell Note Taking System invented by Walter Pauk

<http://www.thinksmart.com/2/articles/idealenvironment.html> - article on personal creativity by Jonathan Vehar