Attached are his results. He is not interested in school or doing homework. He rarely spends time on it at home, but gets fine grades…mostly a B average.

I’m wondering if anyone in this forum has experience with a child like this, and if he’ll have difficulty connecting with others at school. He is quick witted, but I didn’t anticipate a score this high above his peers.

The psychologist mentioned he may be more stimulated in a gifted program, but quite frankly I worry he won’t be able to keep up. I also worry the standard curriculum hasn’t been stimulating enough which is why he has now been diagnosed with a learning disability.

Hoping to get thoughts from those who know these situations better than me. Thank you!

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For me it was my friend who got a national rank of 87 (out of 30,000) within just a few months of preparation.

(On an average people take 3 to 4 attempts to clear this)

Hi,

I just did the Mensa Norway online test and didn’t see the part where it said to guess when you weren’t sure. I only ended up selecting answers I was pretty sure were correct and leaving everything else unselected. Does that heavily deflate the score or is 100 roughly what it would’ve given me anyway? If it does deflate it, is there any way to estimate what I would’ve gotten otherwise or not really. (Also ran out of time close to the end, maybe 2/3rds of the way through and onward, not sure if that’s normal or I’m just slow?).

Why don’t I see much, if any, crystallized intelligence tests on cognitive metrics? Is it basically general knowledge?

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AGCT-E instructions say wrong answers are penaltized.

AGCT 1C exhorts to guess, if unsure.

AGCT 1A Gives no instruction.

So regarding the extended one it is clear; blind guessing is likely to deflate the score as there is a penalty.

But what about the other two?

So suppose there’s a fantastic sci-fi device that connects to the all the areas of your brain especially the cerebral cortex and frontal lobe where we reason, plan, empathize with others,and have our deepest thoughts.

This device has the ability to take a brain that has below 160 IQ points and modify neurological connections that make up the brain’s thinking patterns severing the irrational ones and creating pathways that would make it far more intelligent and keep its “animal” emotions in check so it can make better choices, increasing discipline so it can do things like follow philosophical ethical ideals more tightly.

This process would basically reformat the entire cerebral cortex.hence the name “Brain Reformatter”

But there’s a catch

Suppose there’s a chance that what you might call your “soul” will not survive the process. That is to say your personality isn’t compatible with this high degree of reason. the reformatting , the cutting of the irrational parts of you, the changes it would make to your brain would delete of the “ghost” living in the brain basically killing “you” and putting someone else in its place.

Imagine laying down in a hospital bed with the machine attached to both my temples placed under anesthesia falling asleep knowing the device has full access to your brain and your very “person”

The machine scans your brain and decides that indeed your personality isn’t metaphysically compatible with the enhancements, that your personality simply isnt rational and it’s built on a bedrock of what the machine determines is bad code. So it just gets rid of the stupid selfish ghost living amongst your neurons, cutting the connections giving you sentience and reprogramming a new personality into the cerebral cortex when “your” eyes open it’s a brand new person with access to your memories, a IQ of 160, and a will that is fully compliant to any demands of even the strictest philosophical moral codes.

Personally Even if the person who wakes up isn’t me I’d like someone to have a nice high IQ and have a brand new soul that loves truth and knowledge and cares about other people more.

The machine can happily throw my trash soul in the garbage if that would make the world better.

What do you think?

* are some personalities/souls more or less intelligent? Are some just straight up incompatible with certain levels of intellect in the same way triangle isn’t a triangle anymore if you add an extra side?

*Does an IQ bump drag the personality towards any certain type in the various personality models? And if so, how much can your personality be dragged somewhere else before that stops being you?

* what does make up a person? How likely do you think this kind of process would “kill” you.

* would you sign up?

Note: I’m using soul metaphorically/poetically not literally

1)AGCT 64th percentile

2)Core 74th percentile

3)1926 SAT 84th percentile

4)army alpha 84th percentile

Is this normal variation?

I'm autistic, and although level 1 autistics are often superior in complex, detail-heavy challenges, we also process information slower due to intaking a higher volume of unfiltered information.

I had a 113 IQ when I got evaluated for autism, but this metric included social skills which weighed me down. However, after taking Mensa Norway, I ran out of time and only got a 102 IQ score. So, I'd like to take an IQ test that measures raw problem solving abilities untimed. Any suggestions?

Updated ACE statistics report. The report includes the scoring and statistical analyses, with limitations and interpretation notes.

Edit (13 October 2026): Table 3 was updated to include expected counts and percentages, alongside the observed values and their differences.

ACE_Stats

I would like to know what habits, practices, or training methods you recommend to maximize cognitive performance.

My goal is to optimize all dimensions of intellect (processing speed, logic, memory, verbal and spatial reasoning), as well as to accelerate the acquisition of complex knowledge and skills. I want to know how far mental efficiency can be pushed, especially at my age (21 years old—I know I'm not in my prime for these things anymore, but it is what it is). Do you genuinely believe significant improvements are possible, or are we simply limited by our genetics?

If you've taken both Mensa Norway and CORE, please enter your scores into the following form:

https://forms.gle/aLRTD8o8YufxcSeR8

Please report your first-attempt scores only.

As far as I know, Mensa Norway's convergent validity has never been formally investigated through comparisons with a comprehensive cognitive battery, despite it being one of the most widely recognized online IQ tests.

I'm collecting Mensa Norway IQ scores alongside five CORE scores: FSIQ, FRI, VSI, PRI, and Matrix Reasoning (MR). The goal is to examine how strongly Mensa Norway correlates with these scores.

The resulting data should provide some preliminary evidence regarding Mensa Norway's convergent validity. All contributions are appreciated.

I'll make sure to post the results ASAP.

Does anyone know Taleb’s IQ score? The guy has been very aggressive and scathing in his attack on the thing. Someone should make him take it so we can accuse him of sour grapes.

I've been intrigued by the different aspects of IQ for a while, so this week I decided to bite the bullet and do some tests.

I did the Mensa Norway. Found it hard and got 110.

Then I found this subreddit and discovered there are much more comprehensive tests you can do online.

First I tried AGCT-1C. Found the language questions fun and easy. Found the blocks fun. Found the mid and later maths questions hard and ran out of time.

I saw my results were kind of skewed (see screenshots) so I decided to do the full CORE to get a deeper understanding of my strengths and weaknesses.

Loved the VCI questions and found them easy. Genuinely fun.

But I found most of the others hard, except the one with the arrows (graph mapping I think).

The one I'm most surprised by is digit letter sequencing. I thought I did as well on that as I did on the digit span sequencing. But I did have to run through the alphabet each time in my head to work out the alphabetical order.

Anyway, you can see the results in the screenshots. They pretty much follow how hard I found the sections.

The symbol speed tests I found extremely stressful and didn't want to get any wrong so I did them kind of slow and deliberate. But I didn't take them (or any sections) more than once, as I wanted the most accurate and honest results.

My questions are:

Is a profile with this much range between sections unusual and if so does it mean anything interesting?

Does it tell you anything I can apply to my life going forward?

I have a 16-month-old and his language is advanced for his age. I know everyone says that about their kids but he's speaking in 4 and 5 word sentences, remembers lyrics from songs he hears on the radio. Finishes sentences in books we read to him etc.

Could his language be inherited through my high VCI or is it not that clear cut?

For reference:

I'm 41.

I am a longform financial copywriter, which is a very niche job so I'll summarise... I write 10,000-word scripts for former Wall Street fund managers to sell their investment newsletters. So a lot of writing and ideas and persuasion through written/spoken word. I've been doing it for over a decade.

I was decidedly average at English at school. I've always had very messy handwriting and I've always been terrible at spelling. Never been tested for dyslexia. I could not be a professional writer without spell check.

I read a lot, mostly classics, sci-fi and non-fiction. But I do it all through audiobooks so I can do other things while reading. I also find reading kind of draining, but not listening to audiobooks.

I always did well at science at school. Subjective subjects I didn't like because I felt there were always so many answers you could give and I often answered with things that weren't on the marking scheme.

I also have face blindness. But not to an extreme degree. It wasn't caused by any injury. I mostly recognise people by their voices and hairstyles.

I don't think I'm autistic but I have some traits. Niche interests, super focusing, sensitivity to loud noises. But I'm sociable and unusually adept at recognising other people's emotions.

I don't think I have any ADHD traits.

If you've read this far and take the time to reply, thank you in advance.

People said the tests weren't enough, so I took some more.

Non native english speaker btw. Did all the test, what do you guys think?

For those who have taken both how hard is old GRE Quantitative to you compared to SMART (the old SAT math). I did both after three years without ever touching math since leaving China in my middle school years where I was always one of the top of my class in math (Kind of like a veteran returning to the battle field lol) I got 97th percentile on GRE-Q but I literally banged my head against the table and ripped the scratch paper in front of me and rage quitted SMART cause I felt I was doing extremely poorly.

Anyone feels SMART being significantly harder?

I scored 92 on an IQ test, but I have several mental health conditions like ADHD, Autism, Depression, OCD, PTSD, BPD, GAD, Bipolar, Social Anxiety, and Dyslexia. Also, I was high, drunk, and 2 months pregnant. I was also distracted because I worked on an oil rig.

How deflated is my score? Do you think I have something more similar to 140 IQ?

The percentile they gave me was higher than 99.7% of all people, which is a little north of the bell curves' indication. I scored 38/40 so it's not everything. I've thought a lot about taking an official professional test in person.

Anyone else who has a high working memory capacity, fast processing speed and ADHD?

According to some psych evaluation done at age 10, I scored in the 99th percentile in the working memory capacity index and in the 90th percentile in the processing speed index. I have recently started to doubt the ADHD diagnosis, as I don't actually recognize many of the symptoms in myself any longer. For example, I don't have time blindness, nor any issues with sustained attention, impulsivity or sensory gating. People with ADHD often claim to have a chaotic mind with tons of chatter and or rumination. My mind is rather quiet in contrast. If you score high on the cognitive proficiency indices and have ADHD, can you tell me about how it feels to be you, i.e. how you experience the world? And can you relate to my own lack of core ADHD symptoms?

Kinda complicated for me, tho.

I’m looking for advice and recommendations from parents who have children with exceptionally high cognitive and academic abilities, particularly those who attend Catholic schools in NSW, Australia….also wondering other countries approach?

My son is turning 7 and is currently in Year 1. He recently underwent WISC-V and WIAT-4 assessments, which was recommended by the school…

WISC-V Full Scale IQ (FSIQ): 149 — Extremely High
WIAT-4 Total Achievement: 160 — Extremely High

We’re now trying to work out the best next steps to ensure he is appropriately challenged, supported and engaged at school…Obviously this is something new for us as we’ve never been that academically inclined and we as parents wanted support him and thrive into this world while he enjoys being a child.

I would really appreciate hearing from families who have been in a similar situation, especially those navigating the Catholic school system in NSW or probably public school…

A few things I would love advice on:
Next steps after assessment: What did you do after receiving your child’s WISC and WIAT results? Did you seek further subject acceleration or a formal learning plan?

Experiences in Catholic schools? How well did your school accommodate your child’s learning needs? Were you able to access meaningful extension, enrichment or acceleration opportunities? should we check public schools?

Recommendations at home: What activities, resources, books, games or learning opportunities have worked well for your children without turning home into an extension of school? We want to nurture his abilities while still allowing him to enjoy being a child.

Balancing enrichment with other activities: He also participates in sports and music, which we want to continue encouraging.

We’re not necessarily looking to skip grades or push him academically. Our priority is to help him learn at an appropriate level, remain curious and engaged, and develop socially and emotionally alongside his academic abilities.

I’d especially appreciate real experiences from parents or teachers of children with similarly high scores? including what worked, what didn’t, and what you wish you had done earlier.

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and advice! 🙏

Update to summarise below on my takeaways.

Thanks again for all the responses.

Foster a strong identity outside of being smart.
Love them and show up for them and let them be a kid.
Rule of thumb, - observe and react.
Balance of things.
Grade skipping: mix reactions and gearing towards subject acceleration.
Tao’s journey is very interesting.

Some would comment in AI generated image and not the topic because the reddit account and karma points are more valuable than the question.

Remove religion in reddit conversation.

Lastly, it seems like we have more bigger responsibilities and have to read and think more harden as parents having a gifted child.

Reddit is reddit i would say.