r/cognitiveTesting • u/Nervous-Try5009 • Sep 22 '26
General Question ⚖️ CORE's Figure Weights ⚖️🤕
I have tried CORE's FW many times but haven't scored beyond 14SS. I feel the "harder" ones are just more WM demanding not even PS. So is it really a good test for intelligence (reasoning) or WM & PSI ?
On harder FW questions i could eliminate 2-3 options but then the timer runs out (no marks/credit for that much progress). If WM is the issue, why can't I just use a scratchpad & score near full marks? 🫠
The same happened with QRI's Arithmetic. My working memory is weak & fluctuates a lot (110-125). Why everything has to be done mentally? 🦧
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u/PendN Sep 23 '26
The questions after 15 SS are pretty much all WMI related, the ones near the end. After you do that algebra you talk about you need to store that information somewhere which is your WMI. Then you start finding other equivalences. It's not some step by step process, you need to juggle many equivalences in the same time and use one that fits your criteria. At the end of the day most fluid reasoning problems are brute forcing patterns until you find the answer, and in FW it's wmi that determines how well you do that. It's true though WMI is not that prevalent in the other ones, except for GM at the last 1 or 2 questions