Introduction: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the common learning pattern among the different styles namely visual, auditory, reading and kinesthetic in students of first year MBBS students of Mangalore Population in India. Learning preference of students in VARK questionnaire is widely used by researchers to identify the learning preference of students1. Visual learners should be stimulated with depictions of information in charts, flow charts, and all the symbolic arrows, circles and other devices that instructors use to represent what could have been presented in words2. Auditory learning is achieved through listening during peer instruction3, collaborative testing and debate. Manipulating models4 ,and role playing satisfies kinesthetic and tactile learners. Reading /writing learners can be approached with information depicted in words.Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study of first year medical students (n= 100) was performed. Clearance was taken from the college ethical committee. Informed consent was taken. The validated VARK(version 7.1) questionnaire was used to categorize the learning styles of students. The questionnaire consists of 16 items which identify four different learning styles: visual, aural, reading/writing and kinesthetic. Descriptive statistics were used to identify the learning styles of students.RESULTS: . The Mean VARK scores (Mean score ±SD) for auditory (4.85 ±2.0) and kinesthetic learners (4.94 ±2.11) were more than that for reading/writing (3.75±1.82) and visual (2.67±1.5) learners. Total number of responses in 100 questioniare were 1628 out of which score for kinesthetic component was the highest (510),followed by auditory(470),visual (270) and read/write(378). The results showed that all of the students preferred to learn by multiple sensory modalities. Among the multimodal learning styles the most preferred was trimodal (5%) and quadrimodal (95%)respectively .Furthur among them the students who preferred trimodal were VAK (4%),ARK(1%) and Quadrimodal were VARK (95% ) .Conclusion:. The students whose learning style preference contained K within one of the multimodal combination (ARK, VAK, VARK) constituted 32% of all the participants.Similarly , percentage of students preferring A in the modality mix was 28%. The components V and R were preferred by 17%and 23% of students.Our Study showed that the kinesthetic was the most preffered learning pattern followed by auditory. It furthur showed that students prefer the multimodal modalities of learning styles as against the single mode. The results of this study can provide useful information for improving the quality of the teaching and learning experiences of students.Key words: Learning style, learning preference, the VARK