Performance IQ Subtests

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Very few people may be able to answer this question, if anyone. My verbal comprehension index is 131, but I scored 8 on picture completion and 11 on picture arrangement.

My report said picture arrangement reflected difficulty understanding social situations, but someone told me my score of 11 is above average.

Now, the 8 is low. I don't know what it means. Does anyone know?

My overall IQ is just high average.

8 on picture completion is probably low-normal. That's the subtest where you have to figure out the "what's wrong with this picture" cards, right? If so, it seems like they are probably checking how good you are at making a big picture out of details and then reasoning which details are missing.

The picture arrangement thing has, I think, some card series that have socially oriented stories and others that don't. It may depend on which cards you're better at arranging. I had the same thing on my report; I had trouble with socially-oriented picture arrangement too.

It may just be that your picture-arrangement score was a lot lower than your score on similar activities without a social focus. You can have a specific problem with an average score, if all your other scores in that area are above average.

How'd you do on matrix reasoning? I always ask about that because it's a very visual/logical task and I've seen unusually high and unusually low scores on the Spectrum. It seems to be a good indicator whether you're a visual or verbal learner. My score on that one was unusually low, so I'm definitely a verbal>visual kind of thinker.

I got a 10 on Matrix Reasoning.

Thanks a lot for your help. I have to take a test next week to see if my Adaptive Level of Functioning is below 70, even though my IQ is much higher. So, I've been examining my previous scores.

well on Tuesday (the 17th) I'm taking an IQ test among other tests so maybe I'll be able to answer then depending on when I find out how I did on them...