r/cognitiveTesting

hi guys ,ive been reading posts on this sub reddit and im very jealous of certain peoples who have a good iq.

im very dump and i want to become very smart. my iq for now is 40 ,maybe 50 on a good day when i eat breakfast. but im tired of being at the bottom haha. i want to lock in and become the smartest in the worl. my goal is like 180 iq or something, or like to be number 1 in the world at the very top of the bell curve.

i want to be standing right at the top ,looking down on all the average 50 iq losers at the sides. anyone know how to do this?? do i eat more fish or maybe read the whole dictionary book from start to end or something like that????? or maybe there is a pill that will help me with my goal??

thanks ,serious replies only ,i want to reach the summit

hi guys, recently i have been tweaking about my mensa iq score. I want to pursue either theoretical physics or pure mathematics but i honestly dont know if my fluid iq is enough. I have heard that adhd taxes the iq scores of FSIQ in which i scored the 115, if that is so can my fluid iq be higher and by how much? (kindly overlook any linguistic imperfections) EDIT;;;; Im unmedicated

hint: >!they both use counting processes!<

2, ?, 4, 6, 8, ?, 12, 15, ?, 18, ?, ?, 24

2, 5, 9, ?, 22, ?, 40, 46, ?, ?, 73

This is from CORE keep scrolling if you haven't taken it yet and don't want a spoiler.

Completely stumped on this one, was hoping someone can explain the answer.

I was testing out CORE psychometrics recently and found that I quite liked the setup. It closely reminds me of the way the WAIS handles things. However, I found one downside that could benefit from an upgrade: the PSI (Processing Speed Index) bias.

Every single test has hard time limits. While timing isn't inherently bad, it forces participants to speed through tasks. This creates an unfair disadvantage for those with twice-exceptional (2e) profiles or ADHD, who often present with low PSI and WMI (Working Memory Index).

I propose a better option: eliminate hard time limits and introduce a secondary metric called a "PSI penalty." Essentially, when you exceed the time limit, the timer resets instead of cutting you off. Each reset adds a penalty to the main PSI score. Implementing a PSI penalty removes the heavy speed burden, allowing participants to focus entirely on the specific cognitive domain being tested.

This upgrade would also heavily benefit those suffering from test anxiety, as they would no longer feel the pressure of hard cutoffs. These participants might accrue a few PSI penalties in return, but they will not walk away from the test believing their fluid intelligence is flawed when, in reality, a low PSI simply had a negative impact.

Thank you for reading, and please feel free to dissect this idea.

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So I got the WAIS 5 years ago, and now took CORE.

The working memory and processing speed performance seem to have flipped!

WAIS: 128 and 114

CORE: 106 and 132

Quantitative reasoning was also very good on the WAIS, but failed in CORE.

Do you have similar discrepancies?

Title. I scored 135 on FRI but everything else was nothing special. My FSIQ was 116, and I’m a little concerned that my QRI was only 103. (my VCI was 117 and is likely deflated due to English being the 5th language I speak)

I’m 18, graduated Highschool last year with an alright gpa by just being there and I haven’t touched any mathematics or studies in general in a year. I took a year off and I’m staring university soon. It’d be nice if I could get sharper with my QRI and WMI to do a bit better at Uni.

How do I go about improving my scores on every other aspect of the test? Can I even go up in IQ at this point? I’m aware I can’t really improve my FRI but I’m lead to believe you can improve almost everything else.

My IQ has gotten worse, is there anything to do
About it ? I'm so sad because I'm very dumb.
:( Thank you for reading

On core, I scored a 16 scaled score in figure weights, and I find myself curious as to why I could. In my WMI & VSI, a noticeable pattern appeared, I was relatively below average in WMI and low average in VSI — which, I mean, it explains why my matrix reasoning is average and all. But when I delved into figure weights, I saw that it required me to hold shapes — and I was confident I was gonna fail, as similar to my working memory, but I was mistaken? The questions were relatively easy, and I moved through most of the questions with ease. Eventually, I did hit a noticeable working memory bottleneck, where I had to keep a lot more rules than earlier questions, but I was still relatively surprised at a 16 scaled score for something that seems to rely more on VSI & WMI, compared to matrix reasoning. Maybe I had a bad day on the WMI? In the QRI, I did score an 11 on the arthimethic section, but that may be just because I've always been exceptional at math — usually finding math relatively easy my entire life ( though, I've always struggled with fractions and division — you could ask me what 3/7 minus 5/2, and I honestly could not provide you an answer. ) So, the arthimethic section may be inflated because of my superior mathematical abilities, specifically multiplication. I've always had a superior processing speed for multiplication — often outpacing everyone in my class, even the teacher, when I was 8, 12 & 15 — with relative ease ( multiplication table & arthimethic ). Though, that may be because of my processing speed index, as I scored a 115 on one of the subtests ( horrible memory, as I can't remember which one of the two it was.... ), with a 100 on the other one. I think it'd put me slightly above average. I've tried testing my working memory in other online resources, and the result has always been apparent — getting an 84 on the old GRE-A, and below average on the logical inference section on the 1926 SAT ( which I think relies heavily on WMI more than it did on fluid reasoning. ) But I think the pattern is relatively consistent, with WMI probably being my biggest bottleneck for these sections. Currently, my only answer is that I diluted the working memory bottleneck by remembering the sum of the weights instead of the individual weights.

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I think I have a relatively balanced profile, with the difference between my highest and lowest index only 11 points. I haven't seen many profiles like this on here, as most of them seem to be more spiky. I was just curious, does anyone else have a balanced profile like mine, and if so what does yours look like?