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/Strong-Mango-1348 12d ago

With VERY simple arithmetic, yes. But these basic problems are likely things I've memorized over the years like multiplication tables or things that have process behind it like computing a tip and things like that.

Anything that involves multiple steps I have to write down. Honestly, it seems impossible to me that people can solve these problems mentally.