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roydotor2000
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is it normal for a kid with IQ of 130? I am that kid, and I'm not joking! pls. paste comments

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Salvidian
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I have no idea. I recently took the ACT which may or may not be related whatsoever, and I got a 33. A 36 is perfect so I'm happy with what I got. I haven't any interest to go and find out if they're related, so I'll let the nitpickers tell me my score is meaningless.

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I recently took the ACT which may or may not be related whatsoever, and I got a 33


Lucky..when I took it (last year) my calculator decided to not work. So I had to do the math section with no calculator assistance..which led to me only getting a 32 =/

I haven't any interest to go and find out if they're related, so I'll let the nitpickers tell me my score is meaningless.


Sadly, they aren't.
If you pay attention to a bunch of parts in the test...you will find that there are some simple "rules" one could follow to help their score. To name a few:
-The ACT tends to follow the "shorter is better" rule with sentence structuring, as long as the sentence is fully coherent
-The specific info in the science part really isn't all that necessary at times..other than providing a means to present numbers and/or statistics
-Before reading one of the works in the reading section, glance at the questions, so you have an idea of where to focus your reading for answers
thugtastic
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164 no joke.
For women the IQ is more like a spike where as with men it is more like a slightly curved line that is like a small wave.

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Do you have a source on that? I'm curious as to whether this standardised test actually yields average differences in distribution per sex, given that a large meta-analysis on psychological parameters between sexes revealed there are no categorical differences.

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One test said 135, another said 134. Yay! I'd qualify for Mensa.

Most IQ tests are given in elementary school when a child is clearly understand/ahead of the material/bored in class. That's anywhere from 7-11 years old usually. I suspect he falls into this age range.

Might as well rant about my schooling:
After 2nd or 3rd grade, I was in a part-time gifted class. By 5th grade, I was about a year ahead in math. Around the end of 6th grade, there was a difficult proficiency test that only the 'smart' kids took (possibly an IQ test) and somehow I scored well enough to skip 7th grade math and go straight to 8th grade pre-algebra. But in 8th grade in algebra, the teacher had been trying to follow what the local high schools were doing, and she had selected a chapter that they skipped and skipped a chapter that they did. To make up for the mistake we had to cram a month's worth into 2 weeks, and she did a very poor job of explaining things, including the essential quadratic formula. I passed the class, but knew I didn't know nearly enough, so I chose to take it again in 9th grade, and thus was back at the 'normal' level. In 10th grade, I was basically teaching my geometry class, as the teacher would haughtily make glaring mistakes while teaching new material. From my 12th grade memoirs regarding that, "[The teacher] was, and from more recent reports, still is far too conceited and vainglorious to ever accept responsibility for her inability to properly function as an instructor." I was applauded for that statement. In 11th grade, advanced algebra was quite a bit tougher (hyperbolas, exponential graphs, etc). I knew I'd never need more than that, so instead of a higher class like trig, I chose college prep math for my senior year, which was review mixed with a few higher things. Around semester, students had been complaining that the teacher wasn't giving them enough/any time to work, so the teacher made it into more of a lab session than a class. I helped the class a lot by doing examples from the homework on the board nearly every day from that point. In my first semester of college last fall, I got over 98% overall in my Business Math class with 100% on the final and finished a week early.
EmperorPalpatine
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given that a large meta-analysis on psychological parameters between sexes revealed there are no categorical differences.

Wiki says they're about equal with a slight (sometimes negligible) male advantage. This contains a related graph supporting that.
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