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Abstract: Introduction- Every individual has their own natural pattern of acquiring and processing information. The patterns by which people learn are known as their learning styles. Learning styles are a set of cognitive, emotional and psychological factors that serve as indicators of how a learner perceives, interacts with and responds to the learning environment. Everyone has different learning styles. Several people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, while others find that they use different styles in different situations. An important concept is that individuals differ in the ways they learn. The idea the idea of individualized learning styles was introduced in the 1970s and since then it has influenced education. Methodology- A quantitative research approach and descriptive research design were used. Through purposive Sampling technique, 60 students of age groups 13-17years studying in 8th, 9th and 10th are selected from school of Sasaram. Data was collected via learning style questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results- Finding of the present study reveal that out of 60 study participants, 64.30% of students preferred Visual learning style, some of them are preferred kinesthetic learning style about 62.27% students and rest of them are preferred auditory about 61.61% students. Base on the significant association between demographic variables with learning style present study so that significant association between demographic variable such as family monthly income (p value = .008), and no significant association between rest of demographic variables such as age, gender and types of family with learning style(p value >0.05). Discussion and conclusion- Based on the demographic variables such as age, gender, types of family and family monthly income of school students it can be concluded that, most preferred learning style is visual followed by kinesthetic and Auditory learning style.