Higher IQ

[Foxaèr]

1) How did you fare academically?
I was an honor student.

2) How fast did you learn a new concept?
Quite easily.

3) Did you have to study much outside of school?
Hardly at all.

4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?
Math was the most difficult subject for me when I realized I would never need it and stopped caring about even trying to understand its higher functions that would never ever serve me in the real world.

Every other subject was easy for me.

5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc
I did not think much about them, I was only interested in myself.

6) When you solve a problem in let's say mathematics (you can use another example) what is your approach and thought process when solving it?
Above all, I use logic.

7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?
New languages were fairly easy for me to learn.

[robvalue]

I've always been much better with abstract theory than practical things. I can sit there and work out some technical stuff a lot of people would find hard, and then get up and walk into a door frame or fail to open a packet of crisps properly.

I've got better with practical stuff, but my full progress is sadly marred by my ME. The logical part of my brain still seems to work pretty well somehow, but the "general daily life" part of my brain gets fucked with so bad that I appear to be a gibbering idiot at times.

My IQ was tested when I was around 13

Wow! Mine's between 15 and 20!
Have you reached the "tying shoelaces" milestone?
I have! I've got 2 more semesters than I should be fully toilet trained!   Woot!

Well aren't you mister fancy pants I'll get there one day!

[Alex K]

@Rob

Sounds like you're a fellow member of the club of those who get relentlessly mocked by their wives for their complete inability to open any food container without making a mess.

[Alex K]

@Rob

Sounds like you're a fellow member of the club of those who get relentlessly mocked by their wives for their complete inability to open any food container without making a mess.

[robvalue]

I'm actually going for president this year!

[SteelCurtain]

As some of you may have noticed I've had other threads talking about intelligence, the malleability of it etc because I am geniunely interested in it, I'd prefer not have any comments about how I shouldn't worry about this, how I should think less about this and do my best etc. This thread is not because I want to compare myself. I'm simply interested in how brains work differently, what are the signs, in what way they are different etc.

Now to the question; are there any members here with an or any members who know someone with a higher IQ of >120? If so:
1) How did you fare academically?
2) How fast did you learn a new concept?
3) Did you have to study much outside of school?
4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?
5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc
6) When you solve a problem in let's say mathematics (you can use another example) what is your approach and thought process when solving it?
7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?

Personally I believe someone with a higher IQ has a much better and much more efficient thought process combined with a more powerful subconscious (pattern recognition, memory and such is very important too).

I was tested in the 5th grade, and had/have an IQ of 132. They put me in the "Gifted" program, which is just smart kid segregation. I ended up with all the weird, awkward kids until high school. Although I got the added benefit of having the same teachers for all three years of middle school, and they were awesome teachers that I still am in contact with to this day.

1) I did well academically. I've always been a bit of a perfectionist. I got a 4.2 GPA in high school, got accepted into the US Naval Academy, studied Aeronautical Engineering. I had trouble with time management and only got a 3.8 in college, but I still graduated in the top 1/3 of my class, with the hardest major offered. Now, I am back in school for a second bachelor's degree and am carrying a 4.0 at Middle Tennessee State University.

2) Depends on whether I'm interested in it or not. The creative/language arts were always boring to me, but science/maths are my strong suit, and I easily learn new concepts.

3) Yes. I would consider myself academically minded, but I still need to practice/study in order to keep A's. Not hours and hours, but a good amount.

4) Math and science come easy, although some theoretical concepts are difficult for me to initially wrap my mind around. Generally, a lack of interest in a subject is really what makes things difficult to grasp.

5) At first, it was difficult, Now that I don't care what people think of me, it is easier. There's much less ego attached to it. I want to help others, I'm not out to hoard knowledge or anything, so I organize study groups and help others because, genuinely it is the best way to hammer it home for me.

6) Step by step. Once I've solved one like it, I can use extrapolation, but generally I work through the steps until I can think them through in a logical manner.

7) I was pretty good at Spanish, although I've forgotten most of it. Computer languages are easy enough for me to learn, although I don't think that's what you're looking for.

[robvalue]

@Rob

Sounds like you're a fellow member of the club of those who get relentlessly mocked by their wives for their complete inability to open any food container without making a mess.

We have an agreement that I don't "help" with things unless asked.

[SteelCurtain]

@Rob

Sounds like you're a fellow member of the club of those who get relentlessly mocked by their wives for their complete inability to open any food container without making a mess.

We have an agreement that I don't "help" with things unless asked.

That's a handy agreement!

[robvalue]

When a piece of technology isn't behaving though... I'm back in demand!

Or a particularly disgusting job needs doing. I'm useful for that too.

[Little lunch]

Where do you do an IQ test?
Is there any reliable online tests that are free?