My Wechsler Test Results

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I found this forum when looking to see anyone else sharing their Wechsler test results online, and if you can forgive me resurrecting an older thread, I wanted to post mine.

One reason is that I clearly have some different version than the one you're all referring to, or since this was some years ago perhaps I lost track of a more detailed score breakdown... if anyone has any insight into why the scores are handled so differently in my version, I'd be curious:

if you're familiar with imgur you can see them at 53v7s.png (guess I can't post pics yet?)

If the image link breaks here's what it shows:

Reading: 135 (99% percentile)
Mathematics: 88 (21% percentile)
Written Language: 126 (96% percentile)
Oral Language: 154 (>99.9% percentile)
Total Composite: 124 (95% percentile)

This is roughly similar to what I got when I tried iqtest.dk which gave me a 130.

As you can see my mathematics score was abysmal. The reason I even took an IQ test was to try to demonstrate a learning disability in the area of math in particular, out of step with my other mental abilities, for the purposes of having a math requirement waived. It is possible that, since this was my goal at that time, back in 2004, I may have subconsciously "thrown" that portion to some degree.

I'm pretty confident I could've gotten a lot higher in mathematics than 88. I took the ASVAB when joining the Navy submarine force a few years back and got a 93 out of 99.

My attempt to get that math requirement waived failed and I took the relevant class, and passed.

I do not have autism or Asperger's, though my mother has worked with people who do for decades. I can't claim to have a lot of direct exposure myself. Would someone with one or the other of them typically score much higher on mathematics?

There's no definitive pattern. you can search this forum and see that scores for various subtests range from very low to very high. There seem to be some trends, like block design test, but not statistically significant to where they could be used for diagnostics. I hit the ceiling on the arithmetic subtest with no effort but scored below 10th percentile on other tests that aspies are thought to be good at. Other people are the reverse. There are a lot of stereotypes about us but that's all they are, stereotypes.

I think that is the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test rather than the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, which are the tests other people have posted results for. I've never had that one, but I've been tested with each of the Wechsler IQ tests, including the ones for preschoolers, children, and adults, as well as the Wechsler Memory Scale. Interestingly, when I was a preschooler (age 3) there was no significant gap between my verbal and performance scores, but by the time I was a teenager the gap was pretty large. The largest gap is between my visual memory score (from the Wechsler Memory Scale) which was 6 (6th percentile), and my verbal IQ subtest scores, which were all 18-19 (>99.9th percentile). I just try to think of it as having a very specialized brain, rather than a learning disabled brain.

Yes. One of the things is the practice effect. I actually think that if you take it more than once in a specific period of time, many neuropsychologists will not "count" it. At least not the ones I worked for. I suspect there are some parts of the test that are more immune to the practice effects than others, but there are definitely some that one could easily max out on with practice. In fact, I used to administer the tests in the mid 90's and even after all this time, I doubt that I'd get an accurate result because I would know things that I wouldn't have known before, if that makes sense.