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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
What each of us think is our intelligence level may not really be our true level at all.
I was given an IQ test in third grade to place for Gifted program. My mother won't tell me the exact number, but says it was higher than anyone else in the family, who all had high numbers.
I find that very hard to believe. Maybe I just had a good day and did well in third grade. Now, I'd be afraid to take an IQ test.
But thinking I am intelligent because of that has made me feel good. Then I know people who are very average in intelligence or talent and they are most successful because they try so hard.
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That's interesting. I did an IQ test at school many years ago, the teacher was trying to illustrate that they were only testing a type of intelligence. I got the lowest score in the class and I was so embarrassed, the teacher said if it were a true measure I should not have been in mainstream education. The class was social science (easy!) and I later passed the course with an A, so I suppose his point was proven.
I never forgot how embarrassing it was to flunk the IQ though.
I could prepare and revise for the social science certificate so that worked out okay for me, but when testing the innate ability to solve puzzles and logic in the IQ test I was utterly clueless.