Lisa82 · 41-45, F
Never have.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@Lisa82 Thank you.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I have but so long ago that I recall very little of it, nor really know how "well" I did.
I think there was one as a part of the standard "11+ Examinations" in the 4th, so last, year of Primary School, that determined if you would go to the Grammar or Secondary Modern School. Both were run by the Local Education Authority; but the former was the more academic and the latter more vocational, in aim.
All swept away in the 1980s, I think it was, by the massive change, or more accurately upheaval, to the "Comprehensive Schools" system. If the 1980s I had left school at least ten years previously.
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More significant was an IQ Test I think were - from very dim memories going back sixty-five years - part of investigating mental health problems I appear to have had then. Whatever those were are not described in my NHS record that says that I was only prescribed sedatives... which of course don't really do much unless part of other treatment such the counselling I did not have!
The record does say I was unusually highly intelligent, which given that I became slow to learn anything, surprised me to read.
A friend who is retired university lecturer (lecturer, not professor, but a Senior one!) told me the sort of intelligence-tests we were given at school were really only to assess academic learning potential. I asked what other questions might be included. She thought for a moment and offered, "Suggest constructive uses for an empty cardboard carton." So testing qualities like imagination, creativity and ability to think in three dimensions. (A conventional IQ test question is a really just a one- or two- dimensional puzzle, and some of such questions appear in fun puzzle-anthologies.)
I think there was one as a part of the standard "11+ Examinations" in the 4th, so last, year of Primary School, that determined if you would go to the Grammar or Secondary Modern School. Both were run by the Local Education Authority; but the former was the more academic and the latter more vocational, in aim.
All swept away in the 1980s, I think it was, by the massive change, or more accurately upheaval, to the "Comprehensive Schools" system. If the 1980s I had left school at least ten years previously.
...
More significant was an IQ Test I think were - from very dim memories going back sixty-five years - part of investigating mental health problems I appear to have had then. Whatever those were are not described in my NHS record that says that I was only prescribed sedatives... which of course don't really do much unless part of other treatment such the counselling I did not have!
The record does say I was unusually highly intelligent, which given that I became slow to learn anything, surprised me to read.
A friend who is retired university lecturer (lecturer, not professor, but a Senior one!) told me the sort of intelligence-tests we were given at school were really only to assess academic learning potential. I asked what other questions might be included. She thought for a moment and offered, "Suggest constructive uses for an empty cardboard carton." So testing qualities like imagination, creativity and ability to think in three dimensions. (A conventional IQ test question is a really just a one- or two- dimensional puzzle, and some of such questions appear in fun puzzle-anthologies.)
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@ArishMell Thank you.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@TryingtoLava Wow!
buriedalive · 46-50, M
I think I got 96
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@buriedalive Thank you.
buriedalive · 46-50, M
@ProfessorPlum77 average i think
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@buriedalive Yes.
bookerdana · M
They'd only tell me it was higher than 140...Idk which test it was and I kinda doubt that
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bookerdana · M
@ProfessorPlum77 I was always good at standardized testing but in addition to the IQ and the usual tests they gave another test...it was all good except spacial relations where I was in the 20th percentile..I think thats indicative of IQ..test was all verbal
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@bookerdana Interesting.
bookerdana · M
[@ProfessorPlum77I think there are two IQ tests,Stanford Binet and anothher
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
Mensa asked me to join but I was smarter than that so I said no.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@hippyjoe1955 Impressive!!!
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ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@samueltyler2 Wow!
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@ProfessorPlum77 it was a double edged sword. I was born in July, so missed the normal cut of tp start school, so caught up. 8 was really immature though. I never really learned to study and to learn until i hit medical school.
hartfire · 61-69
127 in the general.
Low - 52nd percentile mathematical, musical
High - 90th percentile EQ, visual-spatial & creative
Ultra high - verbal, written, oral and aural
Low - 52nd percentile mathematical, musical
High - 90th percentile EQ, visual-spatial & creative
Ultra high - verbal, written, oral and aural
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@hartfire Thank you.
YoMomma ·
I have tho idk how actuate they were
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@YoMomma Thank you.
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4meAndyou · F
128.
