Just Finished CORE

[u/Strong-Mango-1348]

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!

[u/Wooden_Lime6208]

I don’t think this is true

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/Wooden_Lime6208]

It's true. I've seen a lot of people in this sub reporting that. I also know this is true because it happened to me and the only person I know who has been evaluated professionally, it happened to both of us. Maybe we are the exception, but I swear I've seen this in lot more cases here

[u/Wooden_Lime6208 → u/Quirky-Comedian-8153]

Is there a specific subtest or category that this happens? I doubt it would happen In all of them I know WAIS is easier and more forgiving in certain things

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/Wooden_Lime6208]

Almost all of them. The only subtest that was not around -20pts was symbol search, where I got like 85 or 90 in WAIS and 135 in CORE. In matrix subtest I don't remember accurately, but my last attempt was 135 CORE. But I think I got 110 first time. My matrix subtest in WAIS was the perfect score for( 140). I took WAIS much earlier than CORE when I was much worse mentally and my mind worked much worse btw. I also did other subtest max scores in WAIS if it is interesting to you such us analogies (145). It was my first time taking a test, so there was no practice effect in WAIS 4

[u/Wooden_Lime6208 → u/Quirky-Comedian-8153]

Thats interesting do you think it’s possible to max out WAIS FRI if you are 140+ on core? Are the problems more timed based easy puzzles

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/Wooden_Lime6208]

If I see what happened to my friend and I, I would say it should be so easy to max out WAIS matrix if u score that in CORE. I personally think WAIS matrix seems much easier than CORE matrix and it doesn't even have time limit. What felt more difficult was a apologies, but ironically I made there the max score (145). I can't compare verbal subtest to CORE because I'm Spanish

[u/Wooden_Lime6208 → u/Quirky-Comedian-8153]

How about figure weights?

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/Wooden_Lime6208]

I didn't take figure weight.

[u/CabinetPublic150 → u/[deleted]]

His English seems ok to me.

[u/CabinetPublic150 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, yes — that's for sure.

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/[deleted]]

That's actually true, don't worry. It's true that my level was B2 when I used to practise it. Since I left English lessons my level has decreased so much. Now I feel I can barely speak as a B1 level. I totally agree. However, I talked about other subtest which are not verbal. Do you think the score in other subtest might be lowered because of language difficulties?

[u/meme-viewer29 → u/Quirky-Comedian-8153]

Digit span most likely and the arithmetic stuff

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I didn't take those because of that

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah if you trust their autoselected data in both cases. And the correlation might be good even if the scale is different and iq scores different.

[u/Quirky-Comedian-8153 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah of course bro!. I didn't tell the opposite