Students wanting to succeed in higher education are required to adopt an adequate learning approach. By analyzing individual learning characteristics, teachers can give personal advice to help students identify their learning success factors. An expert system based on fuzzy logic can provide economically viable solutions to help students identify these success factors. The content of this article can be used in its applied form to advise students, but it can also be an interesting mathematical subject. Some examples of other situations in everyday life are given where this expert system can also be applied. (Contains 5 tables and 2 figures.)