<p>Okay so i recently noticed a trend when going through my record of test scores. I am currently a Junior in high school and just got my second PSAT scores back, I got a 162…not a bad score, I have bragging rights over most…</p>
<p>BUT!!! when you consider that last year I got a 210! that 162 doesn’t look so good…</p>
<p>and that is just the beginning…</p>
<p>3rd grade we took the Iowa tests, I placed as one of the top 1% in the country. Then in 6th grade we took them again…top 15% notice anything? </p>
<p>starting in thrid grade we took scholastic reading tests to judge our lextile scores…mine go like this (a 2000 is a perfect score 1200 and above is collage level)
3rd 886
4th 1254
5th 1576
6th 1342
7th no test
8th not test
9th 1200-1400
10th 1200-1300
11th 1150-1250</p>
<p>this is the clincher for all of it…
5th grade I was tested to find my IQ…I had a 169
yes you read that right, I was a certified genius, with a 1:1,000,000 IQ
last year i took another IQ test…it currently stands at a slightly above average 124</p>
<p>So if this is correct then the public school system has clearly failed me because I have gotten “dumber” (i realize dumb means the same as mute) since 5th grade…</p>
<p>I highly doubt you “unlearned” everything since last year, or since you were in 5th grade. You shouldn’t take into consideration your scores prior to middle school or even high school too seriously, because at that point, that is just natural talent at work. When you get older, you should learn more things, in order to help you keep your standing among those in your graduating class. The slip can easily be attributed to lack of effort and hard work: genius can get you only so far. EVEN assuming that everything that you said was true, including the 500 point drop, you must have simply not learned anything throughout your school years. </p>
<p>I highly doubt that the PSAT is THAT inaccurate, and your drop is either exaggerated, derived from inaccurate practice tests, or that was one BIG fluke.</p>
<p>The drop in the Iowa test percentile just means that others improved more than you did between 3rd and 6th grade, because you are only compared to students in the same grade level. Same thing for IQ. I went from 145 to 125.</p>
<p>to freakchild: my 162 is better than my school average it would be a 1620 on the regular SAT, and 210, would be 2100 which is only a handful of questions off a perfect score, i know my downward trend is strange, and as best i can figure it, when i was younger i was very…unsociable, i showed many symptoms of being mildly autistic, and had severe OCD. As i got older my social skills increased at about the same rate as my academic skills dropped, and 5th grade when i scored highest on everything was a particularly anti-social and stressful year, the thing about it is that the more i stressed and had tantrums and didn’t pay attention were the years I was the “smartest”…</p>
<p>to dareallycoolguy:
its probably due to not paying attention, but at the same time i did next to nothing my freshmen year (the year before my first PSAT) and learned little, and my sophomore year i did exceptional and nearly made high honors, except for one class which i failed, (i wasn’t the only one either 90% of us did)</p>
<p>to everyone: another thing i could blame it on is my parents, (i know every teen hates them but mine really suck) that same year in 5th grade (i was tested a lot that year because I was doing really bad) i tested at the skill level (not IQ) of an above average sophomore or junior in every subject except writing which was a 3rd grade level, my parents were given 2 options, i could get bumped up as many as 4 grades, and they could get me a writing tutor, or i could go into a special education class with people who spent most of the day either freaking out about invisible bugs, drooling or trying to fight the nearest moving object…(not exaggerations) needless to say i didn’t get the tutor…</p>
<p>Sorry if I sounded mean. 210 is actually considered a top PSAT score. It’s unfortunate that you dropped so much when you took it as a junior when it counts.</p>
<p>If you left the test last year and this year feeling that you had done about the same, then I would wonder if a) one of your tests was graded incorrectly (or you did your bubbles wrong on the one this year) b) you are ill and have not figured it out yet. I would suggest going to the collegeboard site and working through the sample test - you should be able to eliminate b) if you do well.</p>
<p>IQ results for kids are often artificially high, and it’s very common for them to drop as the child ages.</p>
<p>Nice try to attempt to blame public school or your parents for the drop, though; my experience makes me doubt either of them are to blame. (And looking to place blame is a waste of time, IMHO.)</p>
<p>My son was in private placement special ed from K-7th grade (as in, the public school system didn’t have a public school setting that was appropriate for him, so they placed him in private special ed schools); he has an autistic spectrum disorder and an anxiety disorder. We had him mainstreamed in 8th grade because the academics in the special ed schools were not at all at his level, and never had been, and it was time to get the kid an education. Even so, he scored a 2180 on the SAT in 8th grade, and a 231 on the PSAT in 9th. His PSAT this year – he’s now a sophomore – went down to 223. I teased him about this (“Getting cocky about standardized tests, maybe?”) just a couple of days before his December SAT score of 2350 was available. Silly me! His only prep was reading part of a Princeton guide and taking one practice test over several days when he was in 7th grade before he took the SAT the first time (for CTY); he hasn’t touched an SAT prep book since.</p>
<p>Now… having said all that, there is more to life than standardized test scores. Please don’t define yourself by yours, and rejoice, please please please, in your increased sociability. Good social skills will serve you well in life.</p>
<p>By the way, IQ tests, in general, will give you differing numbers depending on the type of test, the administrator of the test, and lots of other factors. Also, WHY did you take an IQ test twice? The very nature of a real IQ test is to measure your innate intelligence - your IQ will stay the same your whole life, but that doesn’t mean your achievement test scores will match. An IQ test is not equatable to achievement tests like the PSAT or Iowa tests because they measure different things. You didn’t by chance take one of those online IQ tests or something… That is seriously the only reason I can think that you would have retaken an IQ test…and your parents agreed to it?</p>
<p>You don’t retake IQ tests…your IQ doesn’t change, or at least that’s the theory…unless you’ve been sniffing glue or something?</p>
<p>What was the point of this board by the way? Not to sound cruel, but no one here can help you with this problem. I recommend one of two options. 1) You can get an MRI and make sure you don’t have a brain tumor or somehthing, or 2) Stop obsessing about your lowering scores and STUDY!</p>
<p>Of course one certainly can, and people do. In fact, it’s a standard part of testing, so some kids have it done every three or four years. It’s very common for the IQ score to come down some over time in kids.</p>
<p>Another vote for wondering about the validity of the IQ test, although I thought it should be fairly stable after age 8, IF well administered. Achievement tests, OTOH, are much less stable and predictive of the future.</p>
<p>There is much debate about the accuracy of IQ tests at the higher end. It is also the case the the ceiling for IQ tests drops as you get older. So , for some of the commonly used tests, once you are over about 8 , you can’t score much above 130. So, I won’t sweat the IQ thing at all.<br>
There are a few different IQ tests around, and different versions for different ages. The results vary according to which test and how well it was given.
So, what you need to do is figure out what the problem is , really. Try some PSAT/SAT practice tests and see how you do. And look over your two PSATs - you get a very detailed printout these days. Maybe there is some pattern in what you got wrong the last time around.</p>