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I am jealous! Around here a full one is at least 2100$!

Are you in the States?

Here in Canada (or so I was told), you can get 80% of your money back up to 1200$ or something like that, but only if a learning disability has been identified. I don't think I have an LD, so mine will not be covered. I MIGHT be able to get my school to cover it now that I have an autism diagnosis. Not sure though.

What is the cutoff for Mensa? I don't know if I could make it into Mensa with my IQ, so I might be a bit if my IQ turned out even lower than I suspect it is. Still, that might be something to look into. I wish I could get SOME indication from this one that I took through the study.

Which general region of Canada? I am on the East Coast, and the place I checked into was 2100$ . Maybe that was just a super-expensive place though.



Did your IQ test actually serve a purpose (ie. help with schooling or something like that) or was it mostly for curiousity?

I had mine done in Saskatchewan. I found out later on I may have been able to receive funding for it. Check the disability support places in your area and check universities. The testing can be done by Educational Psychologist that have a masters so you may be able to find a student that is going for their PhD. The EdPsych that did mine had their masters and was in the last stages of their PhD.
But 2100$ CND is highway robbery if you ask me. I would NEVER charge that amount.





What I had done is not considered an 'IQ' test. I had it done because of schooling, I have had difficulties in school all my life and I just got to the point where I was sick and tired of
not having a clear idea as to what I was dealing with on my own. I had a strong idea how the results would turn out, but I wanted the testing done to confirm it and for the additional supports
it could produce. Only one result surprised me, because I had never heard of the learning difference (disability) before, Dysnomia in my opinion is the worst on I have, but it was fantastic to learn about it. Because it then gave me the power to learn more about it and try to find a way to deal with it.
Others I have tools that I can use to help me here at university (taking Educational Studies and Psychology, a joint honours programme in the UK), with the Dysnomia it is a constant struggle.

Anyway I found my assessment.
What you might want to have done is a Psycho-Educational Assessment
The test that were administered were the following, as they are written in the assessment

Test Administered

WECHSLER Adult Intelligence Scale - IV (WAIS-IV)
Woodcock Johnson Test of Achievement - III (WJ-III Achievement)
Woodcock Johnson Test of Cognitive Ability - III (WJ-III Cognitive)
STROOP Color and Word Test (SCWT)
WECHSLER Memory Scale - IV (WMS-IV)
Conner's Continuous Performance Test II (CPT-II V.5)

Additional Information

WECHSLER Adult Intelligence Scale - IV (WAIS-IV) consisted of

Scale/Index
Full Scale IQ
Verbal Comprehension Index
Perceptual Reasoning Index
Working Memory Index
Processing Speed Index

There were 10 subtest

Woodcock Johnson Test of Achievement - III (WJ-III Achievement) consisted of
Subtest - 9
Composites - 5

The WJ-III Achievement is a diagnostic test of academic skills

Woodcock Johnson Test of Cognitive Ability - III (WJ-III Cognitive)

Diagnostic test of cognitive abilities

Subtest
Rapid Picture Naming

Test for word finding/retrieval problems or Dysnomia, test for Dyslexia and automatic information processing

STROOP Color and Word Test (SCWT)

Subtest
Words alone
Colours Alone
Colours/Words

The SCWT is based on the observation that most people are able to process and name words quicker than colours.

WECHSLER Memory Scale - IV (WMS-IV)

Logical, Auditory memory test

Conner's Continuous Performance Test II (CPT-II V.5)

A computer administered test of reaction time and decision speed that provides information concerning the likelihood of an individual having ADD/ADHD.


These are all calculated and written-up in a 7 page document.
Confirmed ADD inattentive style, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysnomia.

So basically I have a crap load of D's, much like my early years in school report cards.
But it also showed me something else unofficially, as well as the supports I should have had years ago.
So, expensive, but worth it.

My guess would be that she was trying to see if you saw more than the one meaning for the word - as in a pet is a companion animal, but it can also be a verb - you can pet (as in stroke), pet can be used by some people as a term of affection, it can be an acronym (PET scan) etc.

If she had worded it 'Can you tell me more about pet?' she may have gotten a better response, and SuperTrouper may not have ended up stressing, which you do not want during these test.
Just by saying 'Tell me more' can make a person feel like they are not giving the 'correct' answer or the answer/response that the tester wants to here.

When I had my testing done, the test like that was worded 'What can you tell me about <insert word, person, object here>?'
One I remember clearly was 'What can you tell me about Martin Luther King?'

After I told her, she told me that many she had tested the last year had said he was a president of the US!

The test is basically designed to check a persons 'common knowledge', the more information and details you can give on the subject (object, animal, historical person or event etc.) the better your results.
Such as;

'What can you tell me about Martin Luther King?'
Possible responses

Activist
'I have a Dream' speech
Clergyman
Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Vision of a colour blind society
US Civil Rights leader
Assassinated

Most individuals should know his 'I have a dream' speech and that he was a civil rights leader or activist.
For simplicity lets say each response is worth one point. Most individuals should be able to get 2 points. Others could get 7 or more points towards their common knowledge test


The more detailed information an individual can give on a subject, the longer and more difficult the test can become. It ends basically when an individuals starts giving less detailed responses.
Or when the tester figures they have enough information to calculate the test results.
This can be one of the longer test given

This. Exactly.
And describing something unusually may not necessarily work against you. There is no wrong response, just amount, and for lack of a better word 'quality' of responses.

Like;

"Tell me more about 'pet.'" Uhhh it's an animal that lives in your house for companionship that you take care of.
Most individuals would probably say that.
This could be a better quality response and worth more points because I do not think many would say it.
it can be an acronym (PET scan)
and more points given if you add Positron Emission Tomography to your response.


@ EllenDee great response by the way, really clear.

Oh yeah, you're probably right. I know all of these definitions, but I NEVER would have thought it at the time. I just kept rearranging my definition for the animal companion or expanded on that, and then finally just saying "I don't know anymore information." MY IQ for the verbal section probably came up really low. :O

Another example for the types of ways that vocabulary works out is from my assessment for my diagnosis because it included a WAIS-IV test thing.

I was asked to give definitions to different words, and one of them was "acute", and the immediate thing that came to mind was "less than 90 degrees". It was the definition I gave, and it was considered a reasonable definition.

It was interesting. Even in the IQ section of the assessment I clearly had issues giving definitions for words to do with emotions compared to any of the other words.

This is kind of unrelated, but recently I've had an IQ test on a few things & scored 6 on one, 10 on another one & 17 on another one. Not good ey? But I don't think IQ's are accuate. I think I did understand a lot of the questions, took long to think of the answers in a short space of time & I think the maths brought it down too. For I really, really, really struggle with maths. And no matter how hard my maths is worked I can only improve by a tiny bit.

My thoughts exactly.

6? An IQ of 6? I don't even know if that is possible. Even people with an IQ of 60 would find using a computer perplexing. I don't know if a person with an IQ of 6 would even be able to understand what a computer is. Unless I am misunderstanding something....

It wasn't a full IQ test: it was just one specific thing in an IQ test & as I said; I didn't understand a lot of the question & it took me to long to prossess it all in a short space of time + my diificuty with maths pulled it down.

For a couple of years, there was a yearly 'Great British IQ Test' or something like that on TV. I thought I'd give it a go. The first year I did it, I got around what I expected. I'll not say what it was. The second year, a block of questions was starting and the presenter (Anne Robinson) said they were just like Sudoku. So there I was prepared to do the questions. They came up on screen and were nothing like Sudoku. I asked my husband what we were supposed to be doing and he tried to explain it to me (he's never done Sudoku so wasn't confused by what she said). I couldn't do them as I was looking for the connection with Sudoku. My score would have been reduced because there was a whole block of questions that I couldn't answer (and as it was probably simple arithmetic, I know I would have been able to do them, if Ms Robinson hadn't confused me). I never did any more and went to bed, in a huff.

You can take the test no matter your intelligence and there is no need to join actually. I consider doing a test at Mensa for fun if I get my ADHD medication straight. I'm sure they get lots of people who don't qualify but are just curious about their IQ. You even get the chance to do a test elsewhere and still join even if you didn't qualify with the test at Mensa before, but did better at the other test and qualify with that score.

You're in the US? Whether scores are released or not and how the results are presented appears to be different depending on the country. It gets a bit confusing.

American Mensa says here: http://www.us.mensa.org/join/testing/ they don't give information on scores, say they do give them out since January here: http://www.us.mensa.org/join/testing/test-score-faq/ but point out they will provide only the raw scores though supposedly (don't know the tests and it said they don't provide a complete interpretation of all their tests) you can interpret them yourself here: http://www.us.mensa.org/AML/?LinkServID=DDA1BEAF-A6E0-4F85-87BAE691BDFA0416.

If you consider doing a test at Mensa, you should probably interview them about how it works in detail beforehand. Don't forget to ask yourself whether the test situation would suit you (sensory stuff, doing the test around people, how you feel about travelling to get there...).