<p>My friend from APUSH recently gave her little sister (Ally, age 12) the writing section of the most recent PSAT. I was there when Ally took the test; it was under normal conditions: timed and with no assistance. Ally finished with 8 minutes to spare, and only got one wrong.</p>
<p>This puts her at a 76 (the 99th percentile against HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS). SHE IS 12! her parents have never gotten her tested for IQ or anything, but what do you think this puts her IQ at? Thanks.</p>
<p>I feel that part of the reason writing is so difficult for some people is because they don’t teach grammar anymore in high school (at least not where I go). Ally may have had the advantage of having learned much of it at school more recently.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, that’s still really impressive. I’m not sure I even did that well :P</p>
<p>It’s odd. She goes to a nontraditional school (private charter) w/o a real grammar curriculum. She couldn’t tell us why she chose any of her answers, just that they “sounded right.” Ally isn’t a big reader (just wanted to add that).</p>
<p>TBH, that’s cool but I don’t think it’s exactly an IQ-related issue. If you want to see about her IQ I suggest checking out some of MENSA’s practice materials–they have less to do with grammar rules and more to do with IQ, I think.</p>
<p>I took the SAT in 7th grade, formally, through ROGATE (sp?). Got a 1920 total, and my CR was 750ish. Got a 2320 on the real thing last year (780 CR), and my IQ was 99th percentile when tested in early elementary school (Mensa accepted the test). </p>
<p>I don’t think SAT and IQ have much meaning anyway, so who really cares, but sure there is probably positive correlation between them.</p>