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Background: In medical education, the learning teaching method is an active process in which both students and teachers have to work mutually to enlighten the knowledge. This study was aim to the teaching method preferences among dental and medical students. Materials & Methods: An internationally accepted VARK (Visual, Aural, Reading, Writing & kinaesthetic) questionnaire comprising of sixteen, close ended questions was used. The participants were given required time to mark the appropriate answers and data was subject to statistical analysis. Results: In the present study according to VARK it was found that most students preferred a single mode of (uni modal) learning style, about 80% among medical and 83% in dental students. Followed by bi modal learning system, that is 18% in medical and 16 % in dental students and tri modal is found to be the least preferred among medical students about 1% followed by quad modal, 1%among medical and dental students. Among uni-modal group aural was found to be to be the most preferred one in both medical and dental students ,that is 46 and 40 followed by kinestehtic (18&29), reading and writing (11&9) and visual is the least preferred one, that is 5% in both dental and medical group. Among bi modal group aural and kinaesthetic opted by 6 students from medical batch and 8 students from dental batch, visual and aural is opted by 6 students from medical and 1 student from dental group, visual and kineshetic is opted by a single student from medical batch, while reading and kinaesthetic is found to be preferred method by 4 student from medical batch. Aural and reading method opted by only one students from dental and medical group. Visual and reading method is opted by 6 dental students only. Among tri modal group visual, reading and kinaesthetic was the method opted by one medical student, while quad modal that is visual, aural, reading and kinaesthetic found be the preferred method by one student from both dental and medical group. Conclusion: The results of the study concluded that aural mode of teaching was most preferred one followed by kinestheic mode. The visual mode was found to be least preferred among both dental & medical students.