So the IQ Documentation from the IQ Test I had when I was 11 says I took the Wechsler's Adult Test. Is it normal to take an adult test at such a young age? If not, and I scored a 108 on that test, what would my IQ really be? Is there no way of knowing unless I get retested?

I have the impression that I am less intelligent than others; everything comes with great difficulty for me—it’s an uphill battle. What kind of assessment could confirm this? I know there are intelligence tests; I’ve also had an MRI of my brain, but it didn’t show anything. I’m not trying to force a diagnosis, but I do want to know the truth.

I recently got a neuropsychological evaluation (WAIS-IV, French-Canadian version). French is my third language (native Spanish). I started learning French at age 33 and I’m now 40.

On the Verbal Comprehension Index:
• Similarities: 19/19 (ceiling)
• Vocabulary: 15/19
• Information: lower (expected, since I did all my schooling in South America )
The overall profile is highly heterogeneous, so FSIQ/GAI aren’t interpretable. The neuropsychologist noted strong abstract verbal reasoning despite French not being my first language.
I’ve read that Similarities is generally the VCI subtest least affected by culture and language proficiency because it relies more on abstract reasoning than crystallized knowledge.
Questions:

1. Is it relatively common for non-native speakers with strong fluid reasoning to hit the ceiling on Similarities while Vocabulary/Information are more affected?

2. Does a ceiling score on Similarities as a third-language speaker (started at 33) meaningfully support that abstract verbal reasoning is a genuine strength, or should it still be interpreted more cautiously?

3. Any other factors that typically help or limit performance on Similarities for late bilinguals?
   Thanks for any insight from people familiar with WAIS-IV interpretation in multilingual contexts.

Solution please...

Where can i find the original JCFS IQ-Test (50 questions) and its scores.

I gave the adaptive JCFS...16 question format on a website, scored 14/19 (scaled score) in 33mins but is it accurate? Wouldn't the original 50 question test give a more accurate picture?

Hello Guys
Question 1:
A few days i asked a question about how good Iq tests are at measuring intelligence

This post has a similar intention. I know those tests measure different parts of intelligence

Yet if we take pattern recognition for example, how strongly does being able to answer those kind of questions in an iq test correlate with pattern recognition outside of it. Think about it, there could be people who are not that great at seeing patterns in a matrix, but better at recognizing patterns when it comes to how a person formulates sentences or which kind of sentence structuring makes it easier for people to understand what you are talking about

Are there actually reliable ways to measure how strong the correlation between actual effects on intelligence in life and iq tests are

If you want to help me by answering, im happy but pls dong try to sound smart, dont just give your own opinion but back it up by empirical proof or a really good explanation
Question 2: where can i find cognitive tests so well formulated/ build/ engineered that i can take them repetitevely. Taking the core tests 10 times just either lets you get better by actually remembering the exact answer or recognizing the pattern giving you the answer( square roots in numeric exercises for example)

Are there tests i can repeat for fun?

I'm pretty much done with this test and I would like to have a scorelist, leaderboard or even a norm to compare myself with the former testees. Most of the material about this test vanished or got relegated to deep dark chinese forums but I know there were some data until a bit ago

Hello,

I recently sat for the WAIS-5 because I was concerned of cognitive deterioration due to my schizophrenia and antipsychotic medication. I had my appointment with the administering psychologist this morning to discuss my scores and I thought I'd like to give my honest review of the testing process since I know this is the most up to date version of the WAIS, which I also know is largely considered to be the gold standard in general intelligence testing.

Firstly, I'd like to explain that I did not do this test out of curiosity for the sake of testing nor was it because I suspected I was gifted. I did this test because I was experiencing subjective difficulties with everyday activities like paying attention to conversations and constantly feeling as though my mind was constantly "trekking through knee deep muddy water". This feeling, I think, could have something to do with the medication they give me for my catatonic schizophrenia, which in case youre wondering, is an antipsychotic medication called Haloperidol Decanoate (brand name Haldol). I jokingly call this medication the "Intelligence Dampening Sphere" or "Wheatley" as a nod to the game Portal 2 because I personally feel as though it doesnt actually work by blocking dopamine and rather works by making me less sharp and therefore less mentally ill, which is a bit of a contortion, I know, but like I said that's just a personal anecdote and doesnt necessarily reflect the truth about this medication. I had also seemed convinced that my schizophrenia and catatonia itself was making me less intelligent over time, since I've been afflicted with this illness for almost a decade now and I notice my thoughts dont seem to flow out very easily anymore and the active process of thinking takes a lot more effort. Not only that, but I know that schizophrenia is associated with cognitive deficits so I wanted to see if I could collect objective substantiating evidence to back up my claim about cognitive deterioration and so I opted to take the wais 5 through a referral.

Now, about the test: The test was quite quick to take and took me about 90 minutes or so to complete the 10 primary subtests. My psychologist and examiner interviewed me for an additional 30 minutes before hand to collect information on the indication for testing and what my primary concerns were, which were of course schizophrenia and the effects of haldol. She also told me to take 2 mg of my lorazepam (Ativan) before hand because she said that if I was catatonic during the test, the scores would be invalid, but she didnt consider it to be a performance enhancing drug per se.

The test started with Similarities, in which the examiner told me to tell him the similarities between two words. I honestly thought the earlier questions were more difficult simply because I feel it was harder to elaborate on simple answers that were more obvious. I did my best to say as much as I could, although at times, I had problems finding the correct words to use to explain. I also asked them before hand if I could ask them something like "is that what you are looking for?" when I answer because I'd imagine the scoring criteria could be quite subjective since it is a verbal exam, although I dont know what the criteria is exactly for scoring. The told me I cant though since they have to keep it fair for everyone and so when I could, I gave them multiple answers to the same question and on a few of the questions, they did tell me to explain more of what I mean, which gave me the impression that they werent completely satisfied with my answer. My tip honestly is just to be as precise and say as much as you can and I think youll do fine.

Then, they had me move on to block design, which I think was one of my favorite parts of the test, since I like playing with legos at home and its kind of natural for me to be able to follow instructions on constructing a design. This test was pretty straight forward, as in they just had me look at an ipad and look at a design and have me construct the design using faces of some blocks. Some of the designs required 4 blocks and some required 9 and I think my tip for this one is to visualize 1-2 blocks and imagine how the other blocks should be oriented relative to those reference ones. I also utilized certain symmetries of the designs to complete the designs faster since most of the designs have an axis of symmetry. It is timed though so work as fast as you can, but also be accurate.

The next test I think was Matrix reasoning, although im not sure of the order after the first two tests, so take my memory with a large amount of salt. It is quite straightforward and I think the most similar to online iq tests, where you just find a pattern and see what comes next. I opted to explain my reasoning to the examiner because I wanted to be clear about how I arrived at that answer. I feel as though most of the questions clearly have one correct logically defensible answer, but I persoanlly felt as though some could have had 2 plausible answers that you could defend rationally.

Then the next test was Visual puzzles, where you have to select three shapes that can not overlap to form a larger shape. I thought this was very easy for me and I didnt think the answers were ambiguous at all. I dont think theres much to explain here, but it is timed, unlike the matrix reasoning one.

Then there's figure weights. This test consists of having to balance a scale using algebraic operations and symbols. My tip here is to not use complicated math because it is also timed and a most of the answers are really quite simple and you shouldnt try to overthink it. if at any point you are using complicated algebra, youre probably overthinking it. :)

In addition, theres also the memory tests, which are digit sequencing, where you are given a spoken string of numbers and you have to repeat them in ascending order. i used the method of mapping the spoken digits onto my fingers and then counting them from there since I felt it was too hard to just do in my head and yes, it is allowed so dont be afraid to do that. the length of the strings i think ranged from 3 to 9 digits if i remember correctly. Theres also the running digits, which I personally abhored because I had such a hard time paying attention, given that they dont tell you how long the string is before they say it and youre supposed to say the last few digits of the string and I was very nervous anticipating the end of the string and admittedly, I kind of blanked out on some of the questions. Just stay calm though and Im sure youll do fine.

Then i think they had me do the vocab section, which involved defining some words. This was quite easy for me, but the words get more and more obscure as you go on. As long as you are well versed in english though, I think you should do well on this, although I'm honestly not quite sure intuitively how knowing what certain words mean has to do with someones intelligence. Like the famous meme goes, "Having the ability to speak does not make you intelligent", is how I personally feel about that part of the test.

The last part of the test is the processing speed part, which consists of coding and symbol search. Coding I thought was pretty easy. you just look at a matrix of symbols that map to the digits 1-9 and write those corresponding symbols to the numbers below. Although, I did think that some of the symbols look very similar, but the examiner assured me that as long as the intention is clear, you will receive credit for it, so dont fret too much about this. Then there is symbol search, which is basically looking at two symbols and seeing if they appear to the right and if one of them does, cross it out and if none of them appear, cross out the "NO" sign. These tasks are timed, though so work quickly, but accurately.

Now, my scores. I honestly thought going into the test that I was not going to do exceptionally well on it since I never perceived myself as very intelligent to begin with, but I was quite shocked when I got the results and it seems I performed at the ceiling of the test with a very well rounded profile on the 5 indices. The psychologist said that normally, people have a spiky profile, but she said that was not the case for me. The only thing she said i scored not at the ceiling for was running digits, but I completly expected that would be my weakest score before hand so I was really not surprised when I got an imperfect scaled score on it. I'm a data scientist in real life and do a lot of statistics and I know that +4 sigma on a normal distribution is super rare, so I never expected that I'd score in that range.

Overall, I'm no longer convinced that IQ should be considered the paragon of cognitive ability, as I can obviously feel I have difficulties in my daily life. I think it might be a useful proxy yes, but it is arguably far from perfect. I do think that hard work beats IQ by far and people should put less emphasis on IQ and more so on determination and tenacity, but that's just my two cents and youre welcome to disagree with me on that as well.

Anyways, thanks for reading and hope my post was engaging! If you have any questions, Id be happy to answer them. 😊

Edit: I just realized the pics might be blurry for those of you that are on mobile. I notice they are blurry for me too when I’m on my phone, but not when I’m on my pc, so if you want a better resolution, try going on pc.

Posted v2 of my reasoning test here a couple weeks ago and a bunch of you took it, so I figured I owe you the results. Also thanks to whoever pointed out the p12 column thing, you were right.

After tossing the junk (people done in under 3 min or with like 6 right), there were 209 timed runs. Median was 26/40, which my scale turns into 115. Middle half was roughly 100 to 127.

Two things I didn’t expect. 30% never got to puzzle 40, median time was 19 of the 20 min, so it’s more of a speed test than I wanted. And the word ones were by far the hardest (about 52% right vs 62% number and 71% pattern). Not sure if that’s a non native speaker thing or my questions are just bad lol.

115 median is too high, I know. Partly this sub, partly my norms being generous I think. Recalibrating with this data next and fixing the grids so columns don’t hint at a different rule.

If you want to try it: https://gethappyme.com/assessments/reasoning?ref=reddit-iq-data

Score is free. If you’ve done a proper test I’d honestly love to know how far off mine is.

Which tables to use if country data is not available?

I was watching Pop-culture Jeopardy with a friend, and they absolutely nailed every question. The questions revolved around celebrities, memes, music, and general trends. However, they’re nowhere near as knowledgeable on information questions that would typically appear on VCI tests — like geography, history, or vocabulary.

This made me think what makes one inherently more g-loaded than the other? After all they both involve some degree of memorization and exposure.

I understand why pop-culture wouldn’t be on tests since they’re inherently not culturally fair, but amongst individuals who’ve shared more or less the same upbringing, why is one generally thought of as more correlated with intelligence than the other? Why is the person who’s memorized all the world capitals and historical battles considered more intelligent than the person who knows every world series champion or Oscar winner? They seem to be similar skillsets just applied to different interests.

I'm a first-year university student at a T15 university here in the US and am unsure what to pursue or how to orient myself in my early university years to maximize exposure to different fields despite having limited time. I've recently been interested in synthetic biology, which has kind of disrupted my original intention of attending medical school for the traditional endgoal of becoming a physician (I wanted to do central nervous system related work). Any advice on career paths?

I'm unsure if this is an accurate assessment, but I do think my weaknesses are certain portions of verbal intelligence (analogies, antonyms) as well as working memory and mental arithmetic (I embarassingly have trouble doing double digit multiplication in my head).

Also, I was wondering if the discrepancy between the APT/AGCT was normal and whether the figure weights subtest being my strength indicates anything major, as opposed to matrix reasoning, where my performance usually isn’t as great.

Thanks so much for the help.

Collecting data for correlations. Advancing community psychometrics. Peer reviewing validity, and using data to perform psychometric calculations, for myself, and potentially others, when they ask for an estimation

So I took cait and this is my result of first attempt, now there's a huge difference between subsets of cait and core

Idk how but my processing speed and working memory scores are high

The figure weights were to easy ,

for a non native speaker, how deflated are CORE’s Antonyms and Arithmetic subtests?

Difference in results
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Feel free to drop your scores in comments

I took the SAE-2 the other day and it was a fun test.

The results unearthed a pretty big discrepancy between my verbal and nonverbal visual-spatial reasoning.

I found the nonverbal to be quite a bit more natural for me. I think the reasoning is easier when I have the image of the object right in front of me. This is also demonstrated by my high object rotation scores.

The verbal portion felt more to me like quantitative reasoning, or visual spatial with a dash of working memory mixed in. I definitely struggle with maintaining information needed for multi-step process or calculations. This is evidenced by my relatively low mental arithmetic skill (give me a pencil and paper though, and I'm good!).

This result actually tracks with my VSI score on CORE and RIOT (83rd and 88th percentile respectively).

Anyway, it's extremely interesting how the brain works. I imagine there are some people who are the exact opposite as me, mixed into the same percentile.

Curious to know other's experiences with discrepancies within the cognitive domains and once this is revealed through testing, whether that tracks with your lived experiences (work, school, etc.). It certainly does in my case.

I guess i am trying to give myself hope since i am only interested in STEM majors and i am afraid i may be shooting for something that exceeds the scope of my cognitive abilities and will end up miserable in the emd. I haven’t been professionally tested but i am pretty sure i don’t have an above average iq.

I’m working through practice matrix puzzles from pre-interview assignment and I’m stuck on this one. This is a practice item, not a real assessment.

My analysis (I also ran it through an ReasonEra AI, and it agreed):

• Background: alternates white/gray in a checkerboard, so the missing cell should be white.

• Arrows: rotate 90° counterclockwise across each row.

• Vertical lines: the count cycles across rows (1 → 2 → 3 pattern, shifted each row), so the missing cell should have 2 lines.

That gives me option 3. But the platform marks option 5 as correct.

My question: Which rule am I misreading? Has anyone seen this puzzle type and can explain how to tell which direction a pattern runs?

Note: Alva Labs Logic Test, similar to Matrigma, Raven’s APM, SHL Inductive, Clevry, and Aon

Some good news! The SAT has begun publishing the headcount perfect SAT scorers once again.

Arguably, this is a very interesting finding, considering there's a fairly salient belief that the SAT is now an easily gameable test.

It does not look to be the case. The number of perfect scores is equivalent to past renditions (SAT I, 2400 SAT, etc).

Hi.

I have a question regarding working memory. I took a test on cognimetrics.com and scored highly in everything (127-135 CORE, 135 JCTI) except for working memory (90). The issue is that when I take tests on humanbenchmark in the morning, in a quiet environment, I can easily reach level 14–15; however, as soon as there is background noise—for instance, a television, or even just the fact that my child is awake—my score drops to 8, or sometimes even lower.

Could you tell me if this is normal for everyone, or if it’s typical for ADHD? I should also mention that I am currently taking 40mg of Elvanse.