Never been formally tested. I’m curious what mine would come out as though; I suspect my intelligence is very uneven.
Yes, back in the 50s, me and my entire immediate family were tested. Apparently we were part of a study on the inheritance of IQ - I don’t remember if it was UCLA or USC.
Yes, when I was in first or second grade and having trouble with school. I ended up being diagnosed with ADD (ADHD at the time), and they wanted to make sure that I wasn’t retarded.
That sounds interesting. Do you know what the findings were?
Twice - once in grade school for placement in a special program and once in University as part of a study.
For the people who say that true tests are given one-on-one - what are the paper tests that we took in school, then? (That sounds like I’m challenging you, “You calling my IQ test not real?” but I’m really just curious.)
I assume I had some kind of intelligence test. In grade three we all did one or two written tests, then the people who did well met with a psychologist. In what could be read as a premonition of my entire life so far, I did fine on the written test but failed the oral. 
The only official test I’ve had was administered by my (previoous) psychologist. It apparently had different portions, as I scored lower on some sort of motor IQ, and this is actually one of the symptoms of OCD.
And, yes, it was one-on-one. The other tests are still tests, but they really aren’t designed for individuals–they’re designed for quick grading for a bunch of people in a group. The one-on-one tests are more accurate.
I’d be listing the paper tests if I’d ever taken one, as I still think they have some validity.
I took my IQ test a few months after beginning therapy (22 years old) out of personal curiosity. I do not remember which test I took.
I specifically remember being asked who wrote Faust and the reasons behind the whole “freedom of the press” concept. I also had to interpret old adages such as “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” Though not Eurocentric, I was also asked questions that require an education to answer: I believe I was asked the speed of light and circumference of the earth or similar.
Those questions are only a small portion of the test however, so I don’t think I spoiled it for you.
Several times. In 6th grade as part of the regular school testing of the time, but that was also when I had my absolute worst teacher, Mrs. Smith, who decided that I was too “disruptive” (i.e. asking questions) and made me sit in the book storage room. But I learned far more by reading the books in the book storage room than I ever could have learned from that incompetent bitch. The results of that test determined that, yes, I was not living up to my “potential”.
Junior High was pretty bad as well, though having a lot of different teachers meant that opinions about my “potential” were very wide ranging.
Before they would let me into High School, I spent a week being given a huge array of intelligence tests, as well as various medical ones. The results were never shared with me, but did result in the city paying for my tuition at an “alternative” school where I did far better (and didn’t get beaten up on a regular basis).
I’m 49, and I imagine that if I had gone through the school system twenty years later, I would have been very thoroughly drugged up.
Since escaping the educational system, I’ve discovered I can learn anything I wish, very quickly. That has defined my entire career - get interested in something and learn enough to qualify as an expert.
My senior year in high school, they administered IQ tests across the board. The next week, they came back and gave a different, more difficult test to a smaller group. Each week that repeated with the group getting smaller and smaller. We got down to me and one other person for two weeks, then the last week it was just me. Then no more.
About a month after the last test, I got the score. But per the OP’s request, it shall remain a secret.
I took the entrance test for Mensa about 12 years ago.
I was given a long, involved intelligence test by a child psychologist when I was ~10, in conjunction with the therapy I was undergoing. I do not know which test or what the result was.
I knew about that and I am sorry you had to go through all the hoops. They told me that they had to have an alternate in place in case I was intentionally poisoned or something.
Sounds like some kind of achievement test. Way before No Child Left Behind, my school had these kinds of tests every year; they took a full week to administer, and they were quite comprehensive. I suppose they could be used as personal IQ tests of some sort, but they seem to be more of a diagnostic check of the school.
Yeah, those of us who grew up in California had to take the CBEST. The scores we got back were nothing like an IQ score, though, we got rated in percentiles in different subjects. My scores were always like the GRE score I’ve already mentioned - I would score in the 99th percentile in all of the verbal things and then in the 50th percentile in math.
Yes, the WAIS (that’s the one with the black & white blocks, yes?) when I was was in college. It was part of documentation for a learning disability (and extremely effective at showing it, since the WAIS has a number of subsections that discern various sub-abilities. One of my subscores was vastly out of line with the rest of the test). It was one on one, and extremely hard to schedule, as I recall, since we had to find a specialist of some kind to administer it.
I’m not sure if that’s the case. They were aptitude-like tests - if you rotated this shape, what would it look like, which comes next in the pattern, etc. We weren’t prepared for them at all. I think, looking at other responses, that they were aptitude tests but probably designed more to pick out the “smartest” kids in the class for further testing, rather than to identify gifted children with certainty. In the end, I suspect that “gifted” more often means that one was above a certain percentile in the class/district, rather than being some kind of objective measurement.
You are probably correct, though there was a whole day of such “what pattern is this 2.5D shape when unfolded or turned” questions in our standardized tests. I still have no idea how or why I was selected for IQ testing, but your supposition seems likely. I probably got tagged through an achievement test and then got tested further, luckily on my school’s dime. I just wish they’d done something with it.
Shagnasty for the win!
Everyone at school had one sometime between 4th and 6th grade. We all had another in 7th grade. Me and a few other guys had several extra ones after that. I think about 9th grade they stopped testing us.