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learning methods which would be more appro- priate� The pressures of getting studies done more and more faster, would require options to choose the methods of studying�

�n this study the personalities of students have been concerned in relation to their study- ing activity and succession in studies� Altogeth- er 72 university students participated� They had started their studies in 1998 and 1999� Their study times and success was followed up in three years� personality was measured with my- ers-Briggs Type �ndicator �mBT���� The study con- centrated on comparing the differences be- tween personality preferences� These are: �xtra- version-�ntroversion, �ensing-�ntuition, Think- ing-feeling and Judging-perceiving� Results in- dicated that there were statistically significant differences in success of studies due to the per- sonality� for example, introverted had more success regarding their grades� The last prefer- ence pair also indicated differences: judging students had more success in grades, they ac- complished more studies and they were also more active, concerning participation in les- sons, than spontaneous types� Also statistically significant results were found in the dimensions sensing-intuition and thinking-feeling�

These results support earlier studies �my- ers & mc�aulley, 1990��, where introverts, in- tuitives and judging persons were found to be faster students than others� �owever, these re- sults indicate also that our school and univer- sity system supports this kind of learning�