Vision, auditory, smell, touch, and taste are the five senses that most individuals use on a daily basis to complete their activities. Some are forced to work without one of these five which can add difficulty to their lives. Alterations can be made and life goes on but an individual could feel that they are still missing something. Different professions can shift the importance of sense from equally distributed to a skewed relationship. A chef would utilize taste and smell over their other senses to achieve a masterpiece. In contrast, in the professional student role, more individuals disregard taste and smell as a necessity to achieve their goals, leaving the other three to help them. Just like the chef has a masterful palate to raise the earning potential, so does each student have a sense that aids in boosting their learning potential. Like the human senses, there are five major learning styles which students can fall into: visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic, and multimodal which is a combination of two or more. Vark learning institute has developed a test in which to help students discover which one, or more, style they will succeed in. Multimodal students are able to learn from more than one learning style and often succeed when not restricting themselves to only one avenue to learn. The combination between two styles can aid an individual in maximizing learning and test taking abilities. For these styles do not only focus on learning but also applying that learning. One student is going to be reviewed in the following paragraphs regarding his learning style in order to compare and contrast what is typical to what is recommended for his style. This student has used trial and error of his career to determine what works for him. Textbooks having failed years ago the attention has shifted to audio books, podcasts, hands on information, and repeated movements to try and learn skills. Multiple avenues can be used to try and ensure learning is processed. Reading, writing, and verbalizing the same information multiple times has proven a worthwhile endeavor for this student. However, a kinesthetic approach may be more encompassing of his true needs. Kinesthetic learners are the most rounded learners because they utilize all five of their senses, even smell and taste if needed, along with real life experiences in order to stimulate intellectual gain. The word kinesthetic means movement and as such it is best not to sit this type of student in front of a chalk board to read line after line of text or encourage to listen to their professor read out of the text to them. This student would grow best using their hands outside in nature, on field trips, or other tactile places. The sight of a bee moving from flower to flower is more powerful to a kinesthetic learner than a diagram in a book. Games and playing are other positive avenues for this type of student, “learning through play is easier because games employ artifacts permitting students to feel they are playing instead of wasting time learning irrelevant curriculum” (Sharp, 2009). A kinesthetic learner will be engaged to a verbal story that places the information into practice. Kinesthetic learners are realists and want to see how what they are learning affects the bigger picture. Upon discovering the kinesthetic approach the student would do best from removing himself from the audiobooks and podcasts which he has struggled with yet accepted and instead move towards the real world application of the text which is trying to be learned. Emphasis should be placed on gathering “exhibits, samples, photographs,… hands on approaches,” (Fleming, 2011) and other multi-dimensional learning experiences. Learning should reflect life and life will be filled with learning. However, kinesthetic learning is often over looked in today’s classroom. The ability for a teacher to allow their students to get up and touch the lesson’s material is not often there. The students that need this learning can become disheartened and drop out of school or be forced out due to lower grades. However, there are schools which are trying to do that very thing. In Australia there is a movement to offer “programs that require students to use touch and other senses” (Glass, 2003) in their learning experience. This change is necessary to ensure that all types of students are allowed the same opportunities for learning in today’s society. Vark learning assessment has created a short yet in depth way for students to discover a new avenue to learn or to instill their old habits as positive ones. Without the use of hundreds of questions this learning tool is able to keep the focus of every type of learner where as other longer tests can lose the non-visual learners before the test is completed, rendering the test null and void. The information provided to each student at the conclusion of the examination is short and to the point. More importantly the closing guide is given to the student in a way that utilizes their particular strong style or styles.