High iq low act score reddit If these high-IQ societies limited entrance to only official, gold standard tests like the WAIS, they'd have basically no members. So for a person with ADHD, one’s iq is only an accurate representation of cognitive potential when they are medicated. 75 between RAPM and the ACT -- not to mention the 0. books for 6 yr olds. The national ACT average is 20. 0 in my economics major and a B average in my math minor (Finished calculus I-III, linear algebra, proofs, statistics, etc). So this says nothing about the validity of the SAT in comparison to a gold standard test like the WAIS. Even the lowest I scored high enough to go to a school for kids with IQs over 145-150. A low ACT score only means that it's a low score. Some colleges were test optional but the article says more kids are taking the ACT than ever before. I read pic. The problem was that the draftees used their No. I consistently score 135+ in spatial reasoning in any iq test i give yet my memory section of cait gives an iq score of only 110 do i need to get screened for adhd or is this normal? Having low/average verbal IQ, and high visual-spatial IQ Welcome to the Mensa Reddit community, where people from all walks of life are welcome to converse Having a high IQ makes some things easier, and those skills translate well into traditionally 'smart' fields like STEM, but high IQ = smart and good at things while average IQ = dumb and bad at things is not only an oversimplification, but just flat out incorrect. . I would be highly curious to see your index scores and learn of any disabilities that may lower your score. A 27 should be fine for most schools, but if you're looking at top schools, you might consider bringing up your score by a few points. anyone other mid-low gpa and high test score people? Depends on how I feel whilst taking the test. I scored high as a child and felt like it was a game. 144 is moderate for every single skill meaning you will score at least moderate at the most complex of skills. so the average person 90 years ago was unable to do basic jobs which obviously does not seem true. According to statistics, I don't even meet the average IQ score of 115 of a college graduate. Plenty are high-IQ-but-low-wisdom. (175, 225 Someone who ONLY scores high in logical reasoning, but scores low in everything else (kinesthetic, music, lingual) their IQ is 130. (The average IQ of the general population is 100. Kids can have high iq but would lose points based on this if their vocabulary wasn’t up to date with the test. I got a 33 in math, 32 in science, but a 14 in reading. 15-20 point changes aren’t the norm, but they happen all the time, which fits my comment regarding people scoring in the 90’s eventually scoring in the 110-120 range as adults. Sure the scores are correlated, but that doesn't mean much at the individual level. The ACT is not an IQ test, it's a speed & fluency test. 77 ACT-ASVAB correlation -- would be considered sufficient to qualify the ACT According to recent studies, including one by iapsych, the ACT has a 0. So that group has the highest visibility, but is not typical for all high-IQ people. 87 with IQ. 130 IQ is good enough for most skills but not for all. Plenty of people are great at art, music but horrible at math. Well that explains my ACT scores from 25 years ago. Being irritated about "dumb" and "ignorant things" has nothing to do with your superior intelligence at all, it's a common trait among all types of people. My base IQ score hasn’t changed much as an adult unless I put in effort. What’s the highest possible IQ? Theoretically, there’s no upper limit to an IQ score. IQ scores can have predictive validity (e. Then I took it two times my sophomore year and made the same score which was a 20. No. On the test I scored 99th percentile on some categories and as low as 35th Incredibly low SAT/ACT score but a decent MCAT. /r/Statistics is going dark from June 12-14th as an act of protest It sucks because top colleges are far more accepting of the high GPA/low ACT or SAT combination than the inverse. Took an IQ test last week and received a score of 131 then took it again and got a 128. Me, I was test wise. Not sure my actual score. It's the same with teenagers. I think a lot of people with high IQs who are neurodivergent have scores like that, almost like a form of savant syndrome. Even so the test would be wrong by at least five points at most. g. “However, more high school students are taking the ACT now than ever before -- a trend that has been increasing since 2015, when only 27% of graduates had taken the test as part of a statewide or districtwide administration. while people whose scores are higher or lower than average have higher virginity rates. I dropped out of high school, went to college, did my own thing. Maybe a couple of us will do something crazy awesome. Open comment sort options I don't want to say my IQ score I agree with you that Musk isn’t anywhere near Gates. Hi, I'm a junior and I have a very low ACT score/Superscore and I really need some help improving it before my senior year. I have abnormally low processing speed (clinically "impaired") but my verbal intelligence and certain types of memory are super high, enough to balance out my IQ similarly. For example, I live in New Jersey and our ACT average is a 24, and in New York, it is a 25. I'm not dumb and I can read. Even my older sister alsp has an IQ of only 92 and works as a VP in Ibanking. The IQ tests are based on western information and abstract reasoning (eg Ravens) so people without these backgrounds score lower than their actual intelligence, but I'm going to Anecdotally, my avg iq score went up significantly (like +1 sd) after I started taking Adderall. The problem of construct validation can be illustrated with the development of IQ scores. The more intelligent person is the one with 95 IQ. Unless you can prove that two different-scoring people had very similar educational backgrounds at the time of taking the test, you can't use the fact that one of them scored higher to support American Mensa accepts scores from approximately 200 different standardized intelligence tests*. IQ at age 11 only correlates to IQ at age 21 at . Reaction time, backwards digit span and spatial visualisation scores have been declining for a long, long time which reflects a decrease in g at the group level. Meanwhile, a 30 or better means you have hit the top 6% of all scorers. Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. Math was my best subject but still struggled w/long division. 160 will place you at above-average accomplished scientist level Profoundly gifted is reserved for people like Einstien newton tesla and other once in a generation names. These are regarded as high Some people with high IQs have always hoped that makes them better than everyone else; other people with low IQs have always worried they For most intelligence tests, this corresponds to an IQ of about 132 or higher. Lots of people are high IQ and you don't know it because they just act like normal people. But I think 110-120 is far too low of an estimate for Musk’s IQ as the average IQ of a physics cohort at an Ivy League / Oxbridge institution would be close to 130, and Elon reportedly Welcome to the Mensa Reddit community, where people from all walks of life are welcome to converse about anything relating to living beyond the 98th percentile. Late to learn to read. I dont trust any of them too much. This allows for many significant differences to occur. It sucks because top colleges are far more accepting of the high GPA/low ACT or SAT combination than the inverse. Also, a 24 puts you just outside the top 25% of all scores. What I want to show is that not only is a 30 uncommon, but Africans may be low IQ but they are not low intelligence. But if you score lower in Basically, don't stress it, generally it doesn't matter, your score is in normal rage meaning you have normal cognitive abilities, having higher IQ doesn't necessarily make you superior, but having lower than normal may be indicative of some disease, which is What does this tell us? The average ACT score is a 20or very close to it. This low score has really ruined my confidence. Everyone I went to school with - hundreds of "high IQ/highly gifted" kids - is generally doing the same thing. It doesn't mean she's not smart or that she can't be wildly successful. The Composite score is the average of your four test scores, rounded to the Like all current IQ tests, the Wechsler tests report a "deviation IQ" as the standard score for the full-scale IQ, with the norming sample mean raw score defined as IQ 100 and a score one Basically, a high IQ means your score is higher than that of most people in your peer group. Members Online. Childhood IQ only correlates to adult IQ. If you're looking at mostly in-state schools, look at your state's average. etc. That’s stored knowledge. Here's some background: ACT: I took the ACT 5 times already. Or check it out in the app stores but I always did well in school/uni without trying and scored high on IQ tests and guess I’m fairly academic. Welcome to the Mensa Reddit community, where people from all walks of life are welcome to converse about anything relating to living beyond the 98th percentile. In 3rd grade, kids read Harry Potter. Sort by: Best. so is my IQ low? or can high IQ people also find it difficult to grasp something? Share Add a Comment. Max ACT: 22 (took once) Max SAT: 1860 (took four times) I think people with high ACT/SAT scores tend to have decent MCAT scores too, since its a reflection of test taking ability. functioning (IQ 70 or below)? A forum to discuss the ACT and forms of preparation for taking the test. , performance in graduate school) without making any claims about the construct that is being measured (IQ tests measure whatever they measure and what they measure predicts important outcomes). Can very high IQ people fail to solve puzzles that are supposedly meant for lower ranges? which wrong answers statistically speaking, are given by people with higher general abilities, compared to those with lower ones. In CTT, only the raw score is important. In a similar fashion, the triple 9 society accepts modern ACT scores of 34+ for entrance. EDIT: To clarify, it seems that far more studying was required for me to get a good grade on a typical high school exam, than it was to get for me to get a good score on the ACT. 7 (50 percent of the variance). People were smarter back then. There’s a lot more to life and getting the most out of it than an IQ score. I’m betting there’s something you do well, it sounds like people generally like you. Anything above this means you are above average. It is interesting that in higher IQ ranges, brght tends to have an almost perfect correlation with Raven's tests, while in low IQ ranges [115 or lower], brght tends to give significantly higher and inflated scores compared to Raven's tests. How could I be a teacher when my own students have a higher IQ than me? My dream was to be a teacher but now I’m not You can’t have a low IQ and a high ACT score for example I agree that you can't have a low IQ and hight ACT score but you can have a high IQ and low ACT score (or at least lower than expected) so its not 1:1 and the problem with standardized tests is Sometimes a little higher and sometimes a little lower. However, I don't think the reverse (not great ACT/SAT predictive in any way of not great MCAT) is true at all This reply honestly sounds like what I've heard many, many times from people who are self-proclaimed high IQ holders, but don't really have a higher IQ than average. I know Im not a super genius or anything, but I did absolutely terrible on my ACTs I retook them like 4 Incidentally, the range-restriction-corrected r-value of 0. Someone who scores higher in (kinesthetic, music, lingual) - no official way to test these anyway - but low in logical reasoning, their IQ is 95. The first time I took it was the summer of my freshman year and I got a 17. 2 pencils to just mark "B" all the way down the answer sheet and took a nap. ) The survey of Your Composite score and each test score (English, mathematics, reading, science) range from 1 (low) to 36 (high). 77 correlation with IQ, or general intelligence, and the sat has one of 0. Often potential members have taken acceptable tests at other times in their lives and don’t High IQ is no indication of success A lot of people with high IQ struggle with mental illness, narcissistic personality disorder, depression, and substance abuse. Sure, I'll try to find the sheet. Increases in test scores (the Flynn effect) aren’t loaded on g but are due to The whole test seems odd. Depends how you define “lower IQ”? Is it low average (IQ 85-92) or below average (IQ 70-85) or significantly subaverage intellectual. A low IQ score of 82 couldn’t graduate from college? So maybe the test was wrong. So I still have a very low IQ. That's a good thing. Some people do much, much better on the SAT with longer per question and no science section, some do well on both, some do better on the ACT because the questions Mensa member here with the same trait- it happens. Weird. I have a 4. I had taken all the ACT and SAT tests and other "Intelligence" tests. And the SAT/ACT requires effort only once. IQ subscores are also correlated, but my VIQ subscore is a full 40 points lower than my PIQ subscore. If I concentrate and refuse to get bored with a question, my score may go up as much as 8 - 10 pts. The stereotypical image of a 'smart, socially awkward' person is ussually the people who have a high IQ and social deficiencies that make them unable to just act normal. It's well known that IQ test correlations break down for people who are neurodivergent. For a non ADHD person, taking stimulants may boost your confidence, but it wont have any significant effect on your iq. 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