My Wechsler Test Results

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Well, I guess I'll join the fun.



...but,



(imagine "sad trombone sound" link)

I also scored high on processing speed, above 140.

I think processing speed is an attempt to measure the individual's ability to quickly take in and analyse (visual) information. At that, at least, I am quite excellent and it is one of the reasons why I can function so well in respect to what all I am forced to notice due to the autistic sensory processing dysfunction.

The PSI score supposedly also tells something about the person's ability to focus but I'm thinking that it might not work that well to detect ADHD. If the test's very short (60-90 seconds for example) and includes a number of variations in what to pay attention to and how to react that keep it from becoming a plain, routine task, ADHD can be outsmarted for a moment apparently.

The d2 also supposedly measures processing speed but in a totally different way. By my own standards, I did really well on that test and was confident about not having made very many mistakes (the percentile for mistakes was 40-ish) but in processing speed my percentile was 3 or 4 and that idiotic psychologist who was in charge of administering the tests went ahead and asked me if I had cheated to get such a low score.

I did one when I was young...15 years young (WISC 3) and here it is: I have it right in front of me

Subtest
verbal subtest
Information: 8... difference from the mean 1.2... percentile rank 25
Similarities 8.... difference from the mean 1.2.... percentile rank 25
Arithmetic 9.... difference from the mean 2.2 percentile rank 37
Vocabulary 7... difference from the mean .2 percentile rank 16
Comprehension 4 difference from the mean -2.8 percentile rank 2 and they considered this a weakness
digit span 5 difference from the mean -1.8 percentile rank 5
Performance subtests
Picture completion 8 difference from the mean .8 percentile 25
Coding 3 difference from the mean -4.2 (just remember I believe that a -2 from the mean is mentally challenged don't know if right) percentile rank 1 Weakness
Picture Arrangement 6 difference from the mean -1.2 percentile rank 9
Block design 9 difference from the mean 1.8 percentile rank 37
And my so called strongest... Object Assembly 10 difference from the mean 2.8 percentile rank 50

So, in the end I only scored "normal" in one subtest. In fact i scored basically mentally challenged in several. I didn't have a single strength in any subtest. Now to the final IQ score!

Verbal IQ 84 percentile rank 14
Performance IQ 82 percentile rank 12
Full scale IQ 82 percentile rank 12

Basically I am not that smart. I am in fact, borderline intellectual functioning. I have even scored LOWER on other tests, such as the one I took when I was just 5 years old. I scored 78 in that one, close to true mental retardation. I am the dumbest person in the family. I am the last to figure out puzzles or common sense. I can't even figure out how to load the car when we go to art shows or conferences. My vocabulary is absolutely pathetic, its that of a 1st or 2nd grader. I am 29 now. The only thing that impresses people that I do is my medical knowledge but it back fires on me constantly by having the doctors suspicious of me that I am faking because I have "too much medical knowledge." It is my special interest!

Well I'll probably look like an idiot, but:

Verbal Comprehension
Similarities: 10
Vocabulary: 8
Comprehension: 13

Perceptual Reasoning
Block Design: 15
Matrix Reasoning: 15

Working Memory
Digit Span: 5
Letter-Number Sequencing: 8

Processing Speed
Symbol Search: 10
Coding: 5

Index Scores
Verbal Comprehension Index: 100
Perceptual Reasoning Index: 125
Working Memory Index: 80
Processing Speed Index: 85

VCI: 100
PRI: 125
WMI: 80
PSI: 85
Full Scale: 101

what does it mean when they give an age? some of my scroes are in % and some are in age.

Was it your actual age or the age equivalent for the subject? This means they might be comparing your chronological age to your mental age. This is an old way of doing IQ tests.

it was age equivalent

Dug out my old papers from my childhood and these were all I could find.


From 5th grade:


Scale scores:

Information: 6

Similarities: 12

Arithmetic: 6

Vocabulary: 9

Comprehension: 11

(Digit span) 12

Picture: 14

Completion Coding: 9

Picture Arrangement: 10

Block design: 10

Object Assembly: 12

Symbol search: 8

Mazes: 15


Performance IQ=107
Verbal IQ=93
Full scale IQ=99


From 4th grade:



Verbal:


Information: 4

Similarities: 4

Arithmetic: 7

Vocabulary: 6

Comprehension: 8

Digit Span: 7

Performance:

Picture Completion: 10

Coding: -

Picture Arrangement: 7

Block design: 13

Object assembly: 13

Verbal IQ=76
Performance IQ=106
Freedom from Distractibility=84
Full scale IQ=83


Learning index:


Verbal learning: 5

Sound Symbol: 6

Visual learning: 12

general memory Index: 83rd percent



From age 8:


Verbal Test:

Information: 5

Similarities: 1

Vocabulary: 3

Comprehension: 1

Performance Test:

Picture Completion: 10

Coding: 5

Picture Arrangement: 10

Block design: 12

Object assembly: 11

Mazes: 11


Verbal IQ=57
Performance IQ=106


Reading/decoding: 16 age equiv. 7-0

Math: 7 age equiv. 6-9


Memory for objects: 8 year old level

For those who scored not-so-high on such tests, IQ tests only measure your ability to take IQ tests, and even when they correlate with intelligence and life success (the latter only very loosely), they are no more than that. Besides, one can have a high IQ score, and an emtional IQ of a 6 year old, plus some incompatible learning style or learning difficulty, not making things easier.

I didn't necessarily score "high" or "low"....I just scored "weird."

I'll throw my hat in the ring on account of not having anything better to do on a Saturday evening.

WISC-IV

VRI: 141
Similarities: 19
Vocabulary: 16
Information: 16
Comprehension: 18

PRI: 84
Block Design: 8
Matrix Reasoning: 5
Visual Puzzles: 6
Figure Weights: 8

Working Memory: 77
Digit Span: 6
Arithmetic: 6

Processing Speed: 105
Coding: 12
Symbol Search: 10

FSIQ: 104
GAI: 112

**flips middle finger at stupid block design test...**

What a classic verbal/performance gap! I bet they were using your report as a case study for the grad students!