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Thinking styles is the most prefer way that individual uses knowlegde to solve problems.  Selection of an appropriate of thinking style can help students to solve problems.  Hence, the purpose of this research was to identify the students' perception on knowlegde and application of creative and critical thinking styles.  A total of 300 technical students from polytechnic in Malaysia were randomly selected as samples.  A set of modified quentionnaire were used as research instrument.  This is a quantitative research and the gathered data was analyzed using SPSS software.  The findings indicated that the majority of the students perceived their knowledge and application's level of creative and critical thinking styles to be low regardless of students' gender and field of study.  Therefore, the identification of learner's thinking styles could serve as initial guide in developing more effective and conducive teaching-learning environment for learning higher order thinking skills (HOTS).