should you prep for iq tests?

[Anonymous]

Mensa sends you a practice test, so you can take that before you take the real thing.

Should your kids prep for their IQ test?

What if the kids like the puzzle like games that are similar to the IQ test, and they play with them without you prompting?

[Anonymous]

Check ahead of time with the person who will be giving the tests. They'll have the correct materials for you to use before the test and can advise you about the best way to use them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check ahead of time with the person who will be giving the tests. They'll have the correct materials for you to use before the test and can advise you about the best way to use them.

No reputable evaluator is going to give you prep materials for an IQ test.

[Anonymous]

If you want to be in Mensa, you already failed the IQ test. They are a bunch of boring nerds and fatties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to be in Mensa, you already failed the IQ test. They are a bunch of boring nerds and fatties.

????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mensa sends you a practice test, so you can take that before you take the real thing.

Should your kids prep for their IQ test?

What if the kids like the puzzle like games that are similar to the IQ test, and they play with them without you prompting?

Absolutely not. As a psychologist if I found out the child prepped the test would be invalid!

[Anonymous]

According to the marms of DCUM you are not supposed to prep for the following:

IQ tests
NNAT/COGAT
SOLs
TJ entrance test
any other test that may give an advantage to peoples that originate or originated in lands to the East of the US.

Things you can prep for:
Little league
Big League
Sports of all kind starting with pre-K
SATs
writing college essays to get into the ivy leagues
Filling in college application forms to get into the ivy leagues

Print this and stick it on your fridge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mensa sends you a practice test, so you can take that before you take the real thing.

Should your kids prep for their IQ test?

What if the kids like the puzzle like games that are similar to the IQ test, and they play with them without you prompting?

Absolutely not. As a psychologist if I found out the child prepped the test would be invalid!

I don't understands why? The kid won't have access to THE TEST, but just some maybe similar questions. Also, for example, the SB has lessons from fables on it. I've been reading/teaching my kids fables since they were little. I'm not prepping them. If they took the SB, provided it still had this section, the kid has to come up with his/her own lesson. No matter how many fables I told them, if the didn't have it in them, they wouldn't answer correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the marms of DCUM you are not supposed to prep for the following:

IQ tests
NNAT/COGAT
SOLs
TJ entrance test
any other test that may give an advantage to peoples that originate or originated in lands to the East of the US.

Things you can prep for:
Little league
Big League
Sports of all kind starting with pre-K
SATs
writing college essays to get into the ivy leagues
Filling in college application forms to get into the ivy leagues

Print this and stick it on your fridge.

While I don't believe that anyone preps for the SOLs outside of school, it doesn't belong on your list.

[Anonymous]

Prep for an IQ test? So you want to score higher smarter than you are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the marms of DCUM you are not supposed to prep for the following:

IQ tests
NNAT/COGAT
SOLs
TJ entrance test
any other test that may give an advantage to peoples that originate or originated in lands to the East of the US.

Things you can prep for:
Little league
Big League
Sports of all kind starting with pre-K
SATs
writing college essays to get into the ivy leagues
Filling in college application forms to get into the ivy leagues

Print this and stick it on your fridge.

While I don't believe that anyone preps for the SOLs outside of school, it doesn't belong on your list.

Agree. As some tell it, much of the school year is spent prepping for SOLs. Anyway, you sound bitter. Certain tests are designed to be taken without prepping. Do what you want but plenty of us have kids who get high scores on those tests while following the instructions (without prepping)!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the marms of DCUM you are not supposed to prep for the following:

IQ tests
NNAT/COGAT
SOLs
TJ entrance test
any other test that may give an advantage to peoples that originate or originated in lands to the East of the US.

Things you can prep for:
Little league
Big League
Sports of all kind starting with pre-K
SATs
writing college essays to get into the ivy leagues
Filling in college application forms to get into the ivy leagues

Print this and stick it on your fridge.

While I don't believe that anyone preps for the SOLs outside of school, it doesn't belong on your list.

Agree. As some tell it, much of the school year is spent prepping for SOLs. Anyway, you sound bitter. Certain tests are designed to be taken without prepping. Do what you want but plenty of us have kids who get high scores on those tests while following the instructions (without prepping)!

I know. Me too!

However, I don't care if others prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mensa sends you a practice test, so you can take that before you take the real thing.

Should your kids prep for their IQ test?

What if the kids like the puzzle like games that are similar to the IQ test, and they play with them without you prompting?

Absolutely not. As a psychologist if I found out the child prepped the test would be invalid!

I don't understands why? The kid won't have access to THE TEST, but just some maybe similar questions. Also, for example, the SB has lessons from fables on it. I've been reading/teaching my kids fables since they were little. I'm not prepping them. If they took the SB, provided it still had this section, the kid has to come up with his/her own lesson. No matter how many fables I told them, if the didn't have it in them, they wouldn't answer correctly.

Because the test is designed to measure a child’s response to novel stimuli and questions. You can't compare a child who practices to their peers (test norms). Practice effects significantly reduces the validity of IQ tests as the scores are not reflective of their true intellectual ability thus, not valid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mensa sends you a practice test, so you can take that before you take the real thing.

Should your kids prep for their IQ test?

What if the kids like the puzzle like games that are similar to the IQ test, and they play with them without you prompting?

Absolutely not. As a psychologist if I found out the child prepped the test would be invalid!

I don't understands why? The kid won't have access to THE TEST, but just some maybe similar questions. Also, for example, the SB has lessons from fables on it. I've been reading/teaching my kids fables since they were little. I'm not prepping them. If they took the SB, provided it still had this section, the kid has to come up with his/her own lesson. No matter how many fables I told them, if the didn't have it in them, they wouldn't answer correctly.

Because the test is designed to measure a child’s response to novel stimuli and questions. You can't compare a child who practices to their peers (test norms). Practice effects significantly reduces the validity of IQ tests as the scores are not reflective of their true intellectual ability thus, not valid.

You're still not making sense. Different people have different amounts of knowledge. There are endless indirect activities that increase a child's iq, and some parents have knowledge and access to those activities, whereas others don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mensa sends you a practice test, so you can take that before you take the real thing.

Should your kids prep for their IQ test?

What if the kids like the puzzle like games that are similar to the IQ test, and they play with them without you prompting?

Absolutely not. As a psychologist if I found out the child prepped the test would be invalid!

I don't understands why? The kid won't have access to THE TEST, but just some maybe similar questions. Also, for example, the SB has lessons from fables on it. I've been reading/teaching my kids fables since they were little. I'm not prepping them. If they took the SB, provided it still had this section, the kid has to come up with his/her own lesson. No matter how many fables I told them, if the didn't have it in them, they wouldn't answer correctly.

Because the test is designed to measure a child’s response to novel stimuli and questions. You can't compare a child who practices to their peers (test norms). Practice effects significantly reduces the validity of IQ tests as the scores are not reflective of their true intellectual ability thus, not valid.

You're still not making sense. Different people have different amounts of knowledge. There are endless indirect activities that increase a child's iq, and some parents have knowledge and access to those activities, whereas others don't.

Yes, but there’s a clear difference between indirect and direct prepping. It’s one thing to provide an enriched environment, by reading to your child, doing puzzles/games, etc over the course of their life. That is completely acceptable and encouraged. All parents ideally should be doing this. It is a completely other thing to get a copy of the test your child will take and practice the answers to those questions that they will inevitably see.