it was 140 at my Louisiana school b/c there was no money for differentiation. I didn't make the cut but given both my kids have IQs in the low 130s, I suspect mine is there as well.

How does this test, which I took in 1893-1984, relate to the test used by MENSA?

I was in the gifted program in MCPS in the 80s. I also happen to have gone to grad school for school Psych, so I've administered the WISC, Standford Binet etc. I have always wondered about this because I have no recollection of any individually administered IQ test and my parents for sure have my brother's paperwork for his evaluation for IEP. I hope they would have kept mine if it existed. I do remember being in a group administered test with a subset of kids that were identified for that screening (so not whole class). I also know that I am horrible at the digit span activities but i can go for days on any of the verbal comprehension subtests and wonder when it's going to get hard. I suspect that if I had been tested with a real IQ test, there would have been a really uneven profile that would have been noteworthy enough for further discussion (and a possible math related LD). who knows!

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education. I think they still don't. Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.

My kids are in the "gifted" program and in my opinion are not gifted just very smart. But that is what the current "gifted" programs are designed for. When they are pulling 15-20% of kids, they know that they are not all gifted. And frankly, if gen ed wasn't so watered down, parents wouldn't be so motivated to get their kids into "gifted" education. I certainly don't care if you call it gifted. You could just call it advanced or accelerated or whatever.

I think the gifted program I was in back in the 80s was the same though. It was about 10-15% of the grade, basically all the kids who read above grade level, acquired math skills faster than others, and just liked school. No one in our gifted program was done kind of genius. I think most of us went on to do well in school and we all went on to college and most grad school, but to my knowledge none of us became some kind of mental superstar.

I’m now in my 40s and while I used to feel like I was on the smarter side, lately I’ve felt my intelligence is pretty average. I have friends who I know are much sharper than I am. I don’t feel “gifted.” I feel pretty average.

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Anonymous wrote:I was in MCPS in mid-80s and took it and did get into the gifted program. It was the WISC-R. I also used it to join Mensa.

OP - how did you find the record of it? Mensa used your childhood test to get in even recently?

Also… how do you like the Mensa activities and people?

OP - I asked and MCPS doesn’t keep these test scores on file.

I was part of the original GT program in FCPS. I know I took the Iowa Test and think it was the Stanford-Binet. I do remember being pulled into the Asst Princ office and asked a bunch of questions. The one that always stuck with me (bc I didn't get it!) was what are similarities between an octave and octopus. All I could think of was how in the world would an octopus be able to play music. lol

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education. I think they still don't. Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.

My kids are in the "gifted" program and in my opinion are not gifted just very smart. But that is what the current "gifted" programs are designed for. When they are pulling 15-20% of kids, they know that they are not all gifted. And frankly, if gen ed wasn't so watered down, parents wouldn't be so motivated to get their kids into "gifted" education. I certainly don't care if you call it gifted. You could just call it advanced or accelerated or whatever.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education. I think they still don't. Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.

I also grew up in NY and they definitely tested us in 3rd grade. I was in the gifted program in 4th/5th grade. Now, I think it was much smaller scale than around here. I doubt my parents would have sent me if I had been required to change schools but the program happened to be housed at my home school. I think it was just one class for the entire district and I was with the same kids for both years.

I’ve always been a bit curious about it too, I vaguely remember taking the test but don’t remember any specifics. I did well enough in MS/HS (top 10%, accelerated/AP classes) but wasn’t valedictorian or anything.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education. I think they still don't. Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.

False. All publics did testing at many levels.

Incorrect, as far as the WISC. I never did an IQ test until the FAA required it of me at 32 as part of a full neuropsych battery after a concussion. I will say, it was enlightening!

Anonymous wrote:The Stanford-Binet. There’s a wiki on it

I’m pretty sure that’s what I took in the late 70s.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education. I think they still don't. Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.

False. All publics did testing at many levels.

False. I grew up in Ohio and was in a pull-out gifted program 1 day a week where I was bussed to a different school. There were 5 elementary schools in my district and 3-5 kids per school, per grade got to go. We did balsa bridge building competitions and Odyssey of the Mind - and met kids from other gifted programs in NE Ohio, KY, and Western PA. My college boyfriend grew up near Buffalo NY and was in a gifted program. My husband grew up in New Jersey (NYC suburbs) and was in a gifted program. All in the late 80s.

The Stanford-Binet. There’s a wiki on it

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education. I think they still don't. Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.

False. All publics did testing at many levels.

I grew up in NY, not here, in the 80's, and we didn't have any gifted test or anything called gifted education. I think they still don't. Gifted programs here are absurd and almost none of the kids are remotely gifted.

Anonymous wrote:I was in MCPS in mid-80s and took it and did get into the gifted program. It was the WISC-R. I also used it to join Mensa.

OP - how did you find the record of it? Mensa used your childhood test to get in even recently?

Also… how do you like the Mensa activities and people?