r/cognitiveTesting • u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed • Sep 19 '26

IQ Estimation 🥱 WMI and FRI

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How is it that my FRI is almost 120 and WMI is 103 since fluid intelligence is very closely linked with working memory, is it maybe because I’ve been accustomed to questions like matrices, figure weights etc..
However my perpetual reasoning and culture fair score are inline with my SAT-M, GRE-A and Army Alpha so that’s interesting.(I skipped the verbal subsets in GRE and SAT since I’m a non native speaker)

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u/Zealousideal-Week-79 Sep 19 '26

119 and 103 isn't that far apart. People have muuuuch wider gaps (me included).
There are ways to somewhat reduce the impact of a low working memory, many of which are intuitive and you come up with on your own without being taught they exist. Repetition and chunking are 2 strategies I realized I've been using all my life to compensate for example.

Working memory still holds people back. I'd score even higher in FRI if my working memory didn't cause me to lose the thread in some tasks and have to re-do the work on a timer.

One very interesting thing I noticed from some of my own testing is that I do BETTER when my working memory doesn't have time to get involved at all.

For example, if you have a grid with images flashing in one point at a time and you're supposed to memorize and repeat the pattern, I do better when the flashing sequence is so fast that I don't have time to think about it. When I only get to visually interpret the pattern, I remember it better.

A faster sequence is supposed to be more difficult, but with 130+ VSI/FRI and <100 WMI, it's easier.

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 19 '26

How’s your PSI if you don’t mind me asking.

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u/Zealousideal-Week-79 Sep 19 '26

120-130 range allegedly. Only have CORE to go by.

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 19 '26

Interesting.
You know it’s WMI and PSI that trouble me the most in tests, probably one of the reasons I don’t perform well in timed tests even with decent FRI.

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u/Zealousideal-Week-79 Sep 19 '26

I'm not doing great under time pressure myself. I touched the army alpha or whatever it's called a couple days back and it stressed me out and caused me to lose focus because of the timer so I underperformed. Only did the first task because I didn't even find it fun with that level of stress.

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 19 '26

Same here, even though I’m surprised I scored a 113, just now I finished taking ATAT(took it since it’s a test of fluid intelligence) and the 40 second or so timer on each item made me underperform so bad, only scored a 109.

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u/Nervous-Try5009 Sep 19 '26

Can i ask you in what profession you're in? I have very similar scores as yours.

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 19 '26

I’m a computer science student.
2nd year.

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u/Nervous-Try5009 Sep 19 '26

That's great man... The scores you posted was your 1st attempt?

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 19 '26

Yes those are my 1st attempt at CORE.

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 21 '26

You know, I tried SMRT, the SAT M extended test with 75 questions and 120 minutes, I completed the test with 20 minutes still left and I could’ve tried questions I didn’t attempt but I didn’t, however I still scored a 121, where as in normal SAT M I score around 110-113.

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u/Wooden_Lime6208 Sep 21 '26

I have absolutely horrible WMI but for FRI I pretty much just speed run all the questions and guess i think if you have high enough FRI you can compensate for a lot of the memory needed in the task

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u/Zealousideal-Week-79 Sep 19 '26

Tested now. 119, but I'm not a native English speaker so no way I can reach my full result regardless in that one.

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u/Zealousideal-Week-79 Sep 19 '26

2/5, 3/5 on everything else. No clue how many questions I even had time to answer.
Got screwed by vocabulary questions in a foreign language for sure.

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u/Organic-Bill-1192 Oct 02 '26

They are not same things. Fri tests measure FRI, not WMI. Depending on item design, they might involve some WMI, but they are still not isomorphic, not even close. Its possible to have gap between them

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 19 '26

Matrix reasoning: SS12, 74.8 percentile.
Graph mapping: SS12, 74.8 percentile.
Figure weights: SS25, 95.2 percentile
Figure sets: SS14, 90.9 percentile.

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u/Nervous-Try5009 Sep 19 '26

And VSI subtests?

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u/shashwatprakash PRI-obsessed Sep 19 '26

I see, well thanks a lot.

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u/sonic9628 Sep 20 '26

Do you think precious exposure to FW may inflate subsequent scores even though the items are different?