1 Oliveira IM, Rodríguez-Fuentes G Faculty of Physiotherapy, University of Vigo [email protected]@uvigo.es, [email protected]@uvigo.es KEYWORDS: Learning strategies; Academic performance; Physiotherapy. At the present, the teaching-learning process at the university has as one of its leitmotifs to encourage the active role of the students. This entails that students should be strategic in their own learning process, because this would facilitate the information acquisition, codification, recovery and support. In this study, the objective was to analyse the possible correlation between the used learning strategies by the students and their respective academic performance. The objective of this study was to analyse the amount of learning strategies used by physiotherapy students and the possible correlation between the used learning strategies and their respective academic performance. The academic performance of the students from the Degree in Physiotherapy seems not to be linked to the amount of use of strategies or groups of strategies, except for the strategies related to social support. This fact could mean that other variables would be implicated with higher academic performance among our students, thus suggesting that other studies employing other instruments in order to assess the relationship between learning and academic performance are needed. INTRODUCTIONOBJECTIVE METHODOLOGY RESULTS CONCLUSION The main results observed were the higher use of learning strategies (total ACRA score) by women (p