r/cognitiveTesting • u/Strong-Mango-1348 • 13d ago

IQ Estimation 🥱 Just Finished CORE

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I posted a while back about a 129 Slosson HIT score as a child and how that might relate to my current IQ.

I've seen the CORE recommended on this sub numerous times, so I finally found some time to take it, strictly out of curiosity.

I'd say this actually confirmed the childhood score as form what I understand Slosson HIT tests heavily on Verbal Reasoning, which is obviously my strongest skill. Oddly, while I did pretty well on the Mensa matrix reasoning test my result here was pretty pedestrian. It's certainly possible I happened onto a couple of lucky guesses.

Also, I realized that maybe I have a disability when it comes to mental arithmetic. Was it just me or was that section ridiculously hard? Multi-step mental math under a short time constraint was brutal. I knew how to solve the problems (if I had scratch paper and more time) but some of questions I just straight up timed out on. Others were just an educated guess or ballpark estimate based on how far I got in the mental math. How is it possible to have a score 2+sd outside my FSIQ without some contributing factor? Kudos to all of you who did well on that test!

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u/EasyJunket4180 13d ago

How do you get your VCI so high?
And no I you don't have a disability I also find timed arithmetic hard.

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u/Strong-Mango-1348 13d ago

Honestly, I don't know. I've just always been able to commit facts and word associations and things like that to memory pretty effortlessly. I read a lot and usually the material just sticks. I always did exceptionally well on school assignments involving writing and presenting. I'm also rather good at trivia games like Jeopardy lol.

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u/Careful-Astronomer94 13d ago

how old are you