If you studied for an IQ test really hard, could you get an A for it?
you can practice sure, and it can help, yes, but i won't make you 1sdt smarter
>>16881252I want to beat all the levels
>>16881255good sleep and balanced diet will give you better returns
>>16881244I have had 2 IQ tests, and one cognitive ability test (IQ test on steroids that doesn't give you an IQ score).my first IQ test that was administered to me in a controlled setting with no "studying" showed my IQ as 140 (this was fifth grade). My second test was my sophomore year in high school and I scored 170. my latest one was a 3 hour test and I tested in the top 2%, with the exception that I did badly on the tower of london test. which was supposedly a test of my planning ability. the irony is that the one thing I am known for is planning. the issue I have with the test is that they expect you to only plan how to do something exactly a certain way, and there is no correct way to plan something.
>>16881244I'd say so. I've got both autism and a hint of ADHD so in elementary school and high school I was a gifted kid, with a lot of behavioural problems. I went to so many psychiatrists, had so many IQ tests and evaluations done (and they got it all wrong in the end). I've also done a bunch of them throughout adulthood, because now I'm involved in neuroscience research that covers cognitive performance.By this point I know them too well and the principles behind them. Pic related is an IQ test I took 5 years ago when I was mentally and physically borderline disabled due to 3 years of sleep deprivation, due to some insane humming noise from some fan or fridge in the night. Only got one night of actual sleep every 3 weeks, most days I couldn't even read any text because my vision was so fucked, and even if I was able to read it, the words wouldn't really arrive in my mind. I was severely mentally crippled for a long time. Also, IQ tests are not a measure of intelligence in terms of an individual's brain overall capacity to process information, they are more a measure of specific cognitive domains that are highly valued in modern academia and the job market.
>>16881244No.You were born a retard, and you will die a retard.
Depends. Some tests like the Ravens 2 can be somewhat praffable to a degree but once you get to tests that have many sub tests which are under their own indices (vocabulary and general knowledge under greater verbal index, symbol search under processing speed and so on) then it really becomes of question of if you have a primary psychiatric disorder or a secondary neurological illness that can be improved or cured by the time you take it. Praffe is not a big issue at that point and they specifically try to test for subtests and even individual questions within subtests like Matrix Reasoning ones to see if a certain type of publicly available puzzles might match whats on there and if sample patients can gain after repeated tests. If the gain doesn't add more than about 5-10+ points on composite, they continue on. Otherwise, they are back to the drawing board.An anecdotal experience is that on the Symbol Search task (WAIS) the first time I had done it in a neurological assessment I had severe psychomotor slowing from depression plus untreated ADHD. My composite on it was about 65 but because of the previous issues and my above average performance on other tasks it was as useless for predicting my g-constant as if they had just selected a random number for it.After both were treated, I hit the maximum score for that task on a second assessment. I answered all 60 questions correctly within the time limit. (don't remember the exact composite, but quick searching shows probably around 145-150+)
can't you memorize all the WAIS answers?
>>16882941Unless you bribed them for the answer key, no. They are meant to be the kind of questions where you need to think carefully once you are past the questions for retards.If you are responding to >>16882411 then symbol search is mainly rapid-fire easy questions (you are given a set of symbols per question, you must say if one of the two symbols you are given per question is in the set or not) There is nothing to practice because you have zero clue on what the next thing is. It doesn't matter how much you do beforehand. I will probably get in legal trouble if I say more, but I will say that the symbols are most akin to symbols you would see in a crypto puzzle in a true crime show or a sans-serif version of katakana with zero curves. Simple but distinguishable if you have 20/20 vision.
>>16881492>the issue I have with the test is that they expect you to only plan how to do something exactly a certain way, and there is no correct way to plan something.Tower of London is usually an optimization test. You have a goal set forward for you and, if you're a good planner, you should be able to min/max for that goal. What your goals should be in the real world may be subjective. But when the goal is laid bare and explicitly defined, you should have the common sense to understand that there is, indeed, an optimal way to accomplish said goal.
>>16883090then it should be treated as an optimization test and not a planning test. there is no right way to plan as long as the goal is achieved efficiency does not have to be perfect. you posit that all goals have an optimum plan. who sets that plan? the test is not relevant to anything in the real world. I don't plan based on perfect efficiency and optimization. I plan to achieve a goal. my plans can change on the fly. locking in to a single plan is a terrible way to plan.it doesn't matter since if I ever do take the test again (I chose to) I will buy the game and practice. negating the results.
>>16881244I can get you an A for a lot less, OP.
>>16881644You eventual failure is all but guaranteed.Best to just give up now.
>>16882372Think OP wants to know if he can artificially boost his IQ score above his actual IQ by studying the test. If so, yes, it should be possible. The amount of increase possible likely depends on one's actual IQ. My guess (and it's just a guess) is that midwits would be able to increase their scores the most as they're intelligent enough that they could learn some of the patterns and concepts of the test but also have enough room for score increase. Those of high intelligence would have less room before they hit a point of rapidly diminishing returns or the ceiling of the test.In general IQ tests rely on the test taker going in cold. As a few others in the thread have mentioned, if you ended up taking a lot of them, eventually you become familiar enough with them that the score ends up somewhat inflated.
>>16881244>IQ test>get an Aonly if your dislexic
>>16881244Solving problems is a skill and it can be trained. It doesn't matter whether it's logic problems, math problems, or raven's progressive matrices.
>>16883475>only if your dislexicMade is was a 4.
>>16883459>there is no right way to plan as long as the goal is achieved efficiency does not have to be perfect.Maybe. But there are objectively better plans than others. If your plan takes an hour to execute and someone else's took half that with the same amount of resources and the same quality output, the other guy had a better plan.>you posit that all goals have an optimum plan.Not necessarily. Some cases might have equally efficient plans. But there's many other plans which are less efficient than those which would be objectively wrong answers.>who sets that plan?You can mathematically derive a minimum number of steps in cases like London Tower puzzles. In which case, the wasn't a "who" who set the optimal plan.The whole point is to demonstrate your ability to minimize resource utilization in accomplishing a task. More wasteful plans are worse plans.
>>16881244Why arent you aiming for an A+?
Absolutely, I got 100% last time
