First Grade.
Then the branding was complete.
My kids had to take one for the same reasons when we got to Florida (in Ohio there was some other basis for these classes) and you had to sign a release that said you wouldn’t bother them later about the results.
My oldest did better on average (there was a quantitative and qualitative section. My son barely got the required score on the qualitative part although he was later able to make his school’s math bowl team. My daughter, who got a higher qualitative score, never made the math team, although I suspect it’s because she didn’t try for it. Anyway, the scores pretty well reflect their strengths and weaknesses. She’s balanced and good at most everything academically related. He works harder on the math and science stuff. He can read rings around her and has an incredible vocabulary.
I’m wondering if helped or hurt you to know your score? Obviously you know whether or not you get into the classes anyway. My kids have asked me a couple of times but I’ve never told them the results and have pretty much forgotten the exact results by now, just that they’re both relatively smart but not super brainiacs. As to the OP, I don’t recall every taking a serious IQ exam.
They used to administer them all the time in public school, I guess every 2 or 3 years. So yes, I’ve had it done a bunch of times in that context. This would have been in the 60s and 70s.
Several times in school, starting about second grade, to qualify for advanced classes. Then one senior year in high school for some sort of baseline survey that was being done.
Then when I was about thirty for a co-worker who was going after a Masters in something. Several of us did it for a project she was working on.
We were all tested in, I think, 5th or 6th grade (age about 11-12 or so). We were never told our scores.
Then in college I volunteered to participate in an extensive series of tests, over several weeks, including various IQ tests. This time we each got a print-out of all our scores.
Yes, junior high.
Why? Apparently, so my teachers and everybody could prove to me that I Was Not Living Up To My Potential.
I’m still not. Cause I’m lazy.
There was also the placement test that put me as the dumbest person in the room for my high-school years.
It’s my understanding that a Rorschach test isn’t so much based on what you say it looks like, as on why you say it looks like that. Are you looking at shapes? Colors? Parts of the image, or the whole thing? Things like that.
And bafflingly, the Firefox spellchecker recognizes doesn’t recognize “vaginas”.
I’m Swedish and we had a compulsory military service which demanded every boy to suffer physical and psychological enrolment test (unsure about the terminology here, but I’m sure you get the picture); and one of them tests you did was concerning IQ.
Anecdotal
At that time in my life I was bloody fed up with school and authorities and whatnot and got tired of the IQ test half way through, WAG’d my way through it and handed in my papers first in “class”.
I ended up in a combat control group where I felt I was supposed to be very smart with numbers and all, intepreting and delivering changing information from radar screens often in a very high tempo.
I still believe it was a mistake. I’m not smart with numbers. But I’m still curious what the IQ test showed. - If you wanted to know, you should have asked the pshychologist, but I didn’t know that and never did. So I will never know.
But if I would guess, I scored terrible but ended up in the wrong place. Not that I screwed up, I got a fairly well developed intuition which also helped me through maths in school.
Took 3, all in school, 5th, 8th and 11th grades.
I had to take one at a job interview right before I graduated college. Don’t know how well I did, but I got offered the job. Declined, but not because of the test.
And from my understanding, you’re mostly right. I think it was the whole idea of swimming vaginas that made their interpretation interesting. I think it was Card II, which supposedly “can provide indications about how a subject is likely to manage feelings of anger or physical harm. This card can induce a variety of sexual responses.” No telling how the testers interpreted my response, especially considering that they were beginners and not very sophisticated. It’s been about 20 years, though.
I took one when I was in 1st or 2nd grade; it was just me, not the whole class. From what I remember of it, I think now it was the Stanford Binet. I also think they were considering moving me up a grade, but that didn’t happen.
I took another IQ test much later on in college–the Weschler Adult Intelligence Standard this time.
Did you get this backwards? Quantitative = mathy stuff. Qualitative = um, not mathy stuff.
Once in high school and once in college. It was a class assignment in both cases.
I grew up in Chicago-land, and the school system had yearly, week-long, district-wide tests for all students, to determine where they were personally regarding various subject matter. It was great, and I was able to take advanced studies in those areas I was good at. I’ve heard teachers hate the ‘tracking’ system, as I believe it’s called, but my public school experiences after that were so unchallenging that I literally learned not a single thing after leaving the Chicago system. One of the results of those tests was that your IQ was determined.
I am pretty sure mine has only gotten lower as I’ve aged. 
I had one administered when I was 11 or 12. Not sure why, my mom just had me tested. I remember the part I thought was the hardest was being read a string of numbers and having to repeat them backwards.
I took as IQ test a month or so ago as part of a job search program through the state of Michigan. This thread has triggered the memory that WAIS was written somewhere on the test materials; I cannot verify the authenticity of that memory though. I have not received the results yet.
I’m fairly sure that I was tested as a very young child, because my parents knew to find good educational opportunities for me.
I was tested in a private religious elementary school, I want to say around 3rd grade or so. I was pulled out of classes for a few hours every day for a couple of weeks, and spent the time with some guy in the teacher’s lounge, taking weird tests; the aforementioned block tests (recreate this asymmetric pattern of stripes with this set of painted blocks), sorting wordless panels of a comic strip into chronological order, etc. I remember that a lot of the tests he administered were the same as tests that psychologists at my mom’s job (at a mental health center) administered. I also recalled being absolutely baffled at some of the tests, completely guessing at an answer, and getting startled/thrilled responses from the tester. It definitely wasn’t a blind test, and I do feel that in some ways I was “guided,” like Clever Hans, to come to the correct answer based on social/body language cues.
Got a letter in the mail a few weeks later quoting some absurdly high number and recommendations for advanced schooling that my school promptly ignored. And, AFAIK, IQ tends to fall over time, so I’ve not been too keen to be retested.
Yes, in second grade, to see if I qualified for the gifted program. I wasn’t told ahead of time what it was, in fact I didn’t learn about it until my mother happened to bring it up when I was a teenager. The school psychologist (who had been talking with me for months about some other issues) just told me she wanted me to meet a friend of hers - I assume he was another psychologist connected with the school district or intermediate unit, and that she wasn’t qualified to give a proper IQ test but he was. He had some unusual toys with him and I interpretted the whole thing as a game.
I had to be tested to qualify for CLUE classes when I was in elementary school. They only allowed students with IQ of 130 or above to participate.