Well, if I told you what the questions were exactly, it would ruin the validity of the test. But imagine they wanted to know things like who wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. There were questions about Western philosophy, Western literature, Western history and the like, but few references to history, events and literature in other parts of the world. I couldn’t help but feel that portion of the test was biased toward well-read, well-educated people, thus punishing the non-educated for their ignorance rather than evaluating their raw intelligence.
I consider myself to be somewhat handicapped in math – it will be my greatest hurdle should I choose to take the GRE. But I was very surprised to score quite well on the quantitative portion of the IQ test. I even did well on the story problems (which required a lot of mental math.) You may be surprised.
The portion that really dragged my score down overall was the coding and copying. I have terrible hand-eye coordination and my brain works rather slowly.
When I was in 2nd grade or so, I was a little ADD.
Folks had me tested this way and that. I remember astonishing the Dr. with my (correct) answers to some arcane questions.
Scored pretty high, so the next trip was to Mensa.
I think that was my peak. Life’s just gone downhill ever since.
I had one in college. My psych prof was doing research that linked the results to drawing that we made. I have no idea what the outcome was. I know that at one point I had the results of the test, but I don’t recall them clearly, nor how they correlated to the drawings that I made. (I recall the number, but not the standard deviations.)
My girlfriend was getting a graduate psych degree, so I was a guinea pig for her and all her psychometry colleagues. I took 'em all: Stanford Binet, WAIS, WISC-R, MMPI, TAT, Rorschach, etc. They never told me how I did, nor should they have. About the only response I ever got was when I asked how I did on the Stanford Binet, and she said, “Trust me, you don’t have anything to worry about.”
Although I admit I did screw with them a little on the Rorschach. “Two vaginas during sychronized swimming” indeed.
Yeah, I took one in order to get into a magnet/“gifted” school. So did my brother, in order to get into the same school. I’m not going to reveal what we got, but our mom did tell us the results, and we were the same. Exactly the same. I wonder if she told us that in order to not hurt anyone’s feelings.
In school. They never told us the scores, though I have seen that, according to other criteria, I’m Mensa eligible (shows how useless their standards are).
By the way, I love the way the OP tried so hard to avoid posters just posting their sky high scores. I think the OP underestimates the creativity of a person that really wants to make their high score known, somehow.
I’ve never taken one that I know of, but I am interested to learn in this thread that it is a huge, hours long, one on one ordeal complete with props! I thought it was just a lil’ paper test.
I have “taken” a number of various IQ and other type tests because my wife is a school psychologist and she needed a guinea pig. Other than that I don’t recall taking any IQ tests even though I was in advanced programs in school.
Yes, either in 6th or 7th grades. In 8th grade a kid in the front of the classroom noted that everyone had their IQ scores written in the teachers book. This was an honors class, so we might have been given it for placement. The school never told me officially, I don’t know if they told my parents or not. Back in the early '60s this seemed pretty standard.
Like everybody else, in school. Kicked me into what was then called MGM (Mentally Gifted Minors) and is now called GATE (Gifted and Talented Education). No clue what the score was, other than it met the minimum.
I was tested at age 4 as part of a psych eval, cause I was crazy; a couple times at ages 10-11 or so, to see if I qualified for the school Gifted and Talented Program; and I think another one at around 13 when I was undergoing tests which ended in a diagnosis of ADD and a math disability. All were given to me one on one by psychologists. I think they were differents types of test, but don’t remember/care to look up the details…
I could have written the first part of your post, same exact issues. From what I understand about intellectual ability and testing it’s within the range of normal to have uneven intelligence, although it’s certainly not the average. Most people tend to score within the same general ranges on different sections of a given test, but not people like us. My scores are all over the place and my total number is brought down quite a bit by my weak spots. And of course, it doesn’t reflect that I am gifted in some areas and struggle more than the average person in others. People who are not neurotypical in various ways (ADD, autistic spectrum) are more likely to have pronounced strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes it’s so extreme that they have a total IQ in the ‘retarded’ range despite impressive abilities in several areas - this is true of several very talented and educated autistic people I can think of.
Anyway, if you’re curious, take one. They are kinda fun, and it might be useful for you to see exactly where/what your weaknesses are.
I guess it wasn’t professionally-administered–in college, my roommate was getting a master’s in psychology and had to give some IQ tests, so she gave one to me. It was pretty fun.
I took one in the second grade, part of whole suite of tests for various learning disabilities. I recall getting two scores back, one for verbal and one for mechanical. I couldn’t tell you which parts were the IQ test, and which were something else, but there were two days of constant tests, and at least one or two follow up appointments.
Thinking about it now, I’m wondering how things were measured. A second grader who can’t read in any meaningful way was shown to have an above average verbal IQ. That the test was able to compensate for my yet undiagnosed dyslexia, and even to help highlight it, still surprises me.
I took one when I was seven or so to get into the gifted and talented program in elementary school. I don’t know my exact score, nor have ever been interested. I’m now established in my professional career and haven’t taken one since.
My mom had me tested when I was something like four. I only vaguely remember it, but when I was in grad school getting trained in administering, scoring, and interpreting the Wechsler scales, some of the sub-tests triggered the memory, so I asked her about it. She said she had me tested because I was scaring her and she wanted to know what to do to best provide me with the intellectual stimulation I needed.
I took the WAIS-R in high school. My guidance counselor at one point decided that I needed to talk to the district psychologist, and apparently that’s part of the standard workup they did to see if he was right. Must not have been, because I don’t remember ever meeting that psychologist again.
