IQ Testing
Our IQ testing service provides you with a comprehensive look at your cognitive abilities. The benefits of intelligence testing include that it can help you understand, emhance, and tap into your strengths while overcoming any challenges.
Benefits of IQ Testing
IQ testing can lead to new insights and deeper understanding of your strengths, opportunities, and challenges.
Deepen Understanding
IQ Testing benefits include revealing new insights into the strengths you never knew you had and cognitive challenges that may get in the way of your goals. It can point out how you can develop success strategies.
Each IQ test is broken down into many subtests that measure specific aspects of intelligence. Thus, one of the main benefits of intelligence testing is that it can help you know the details of your strengths and weaknesses, well beyond just a single score.
Reduce Stress
IQ Testing benefits also include helping fulfill specific needs, whether you need extra time on standardized tests, an accommodation at work, help with a particular type of task, or even if you are applying for Mensa!
IQ testing can therefore help you truly reach your potential, with reduced barriers and improved clarity about your intellectual strengths. This can help you in almost any setting, from work, to school, to social and family.
Find New Pathways
IQ Testing will show you how to achieve success and develop resilience so that your academic and work performance is enhanced! It can help you use your strengths to overcome your weaknesses
One of the main benefits of having different types of IQ tests is that it can show you how to overcome weaknesses using your strengths, and it can show how to maximize your strengths in general. We give you a highly detailed report, with specific recommendations.
Measure Improvement
While IQ does not change much as we age, the factors influencing whether we can tap into our strengths do. Thus, repeated IQ testing over time can give clues as to whether other factors are diminishing.
For example, some people experience anxiety that affects their performance, while others have symptoms of ADHD. As you learn ways to manage those symptoms a repeated IQ test can help you see whether they are working, and possibly how you can modify them.
IQ Testing Overview
IQ Testing: What to Expect
Intelligence testing can be valuable and powerful for assessing your specific and unique cognitive abilities and potential. The benefits of intelligence testing include providing a standardized measure – meaning that it has been tested and proven with thousands of people – of intelligence and cognitive functioning.
What IQ Tests Measure
IQ testing can help identify intellectual strengths and weaknesses, guide educational and career decisions, and provide insights into cognitive resiliency and potential. It can be combined with Personality evaluation and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for more powerful results.
Some examples of what IQ testing measures include verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed. You’ll find out where your challenges lie, including whether you have a learning difference and how to overcome them. You’ll also learn about your exceptional cognitive abilities and how to tap into and possibly enhance them. Here is an excellent article about the benefits and uses of IQ Testing.
Benefits of Intelligence Testing
We provide IQ testing for various important purposes, including:
Educational Placement:
IQ Testing can help identify gifted students who may benefit from advanced or accelerated programs and students who may need additional support or accommodations to ensure that their strengths emerge and they can overcome challenges. This can start as early as preschool with the WPPSI Test. College and graduate students often benefit, too, even if they are often the ones implementing the strategies as opposed to the school. For example, IQ testing can help determine the likelihood you have a specific learning difference such as dyslexia.
IQ Testing and Career Choices
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses in problem-solving, critical thinking, and other intellectual skills can help you make career decisions. This doesn’t mean you have to choose a career that matches all your strengths, but rather, you choose one that matches your interests. IQ testing can help you become successful by utilizing your strengths and overcoming your challenges.
Self-Understanding
Many people seek IQ testing out of curiosity or for self-assessment to better understand their cognitive strengths and weaknesses. This understanding and the specific recommendations we can make in your report can be helpful in all aspects of your life.
We also do assessments for other purposes, such as IQ testing for Mensa membership.
IQ Testing Conclusions
It should be noted that Intelligence is a multifaceted construct, and IQ tests may not capture all aspects of human cognition, such as creativity, emotional intelligence, or practical skills. This is why our testing can also provide additional information using other assessments and contextual information.
We interpret IQ scores as part of a comprehensive evaluation and consider multiple sources of information. We take a positive approach, our reports focusing as much on enhancing and devloping strengths as we do on overcoming challenges. We like to see one of the main benefits of IQ testing as helping people understand their potential, not just a way to point our problems.
We’d be happy to talk to you about whether IQ testing is a good fit for you, and exactly what you might expect as far as the unqiue benefits of intelligence testing for you. Please feel free to reach out any time.
Emotional Intelligence Testing Instruments
Intelligence Tests
IQ tests break intelligence into ten subtests, each measuring specific cognitive ability aspects. The subtests can be combined and compared to add power and detail to those conclusions.
Supplemental Tests
Most IQ tests have supplemental subtests that can be used when more information is needed to reach conclusions. In some cases, these additional subtests can deliver new insights.
Specific Add-Ons
Sometimes, different IQ tests can be combined to add to the conclusions that are reached. Some IQ tests measure intelligence differently, and combining them can add to the depth of what can be concluded. Examples include the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test or specific working memory testing.
Example
Jim decided to come in for IQ testing before starting veterinary school. He knows how rigorous graduate school will be and wants to design a plan that maximizes his strengths and helps him overcome his challenges.
Jim takes the WAIS IQ test, which shows that he has strengths in nonverbal reasoning that are particularly strong when solving a problem in three dimensions. It also shows that he has a challenge in attention when the material is presented out loud and when he has to use working (immediate) memory on a variety of tasks.
Jim’s test report outlines what these conclusions might mean for veterinary school. He will likely excel in topics such as anatomy and when he has to work directly with an animal. He plans to make sure that he fully develops that strength. He will try to choose class schedules that always include these classes to lower his stress level and preserve his confidence.
He also hears that he may need help in lecture-type classes, especially when things move quickly, and it’s hard to take notes. He plans to record these classes and also get better at note-taking possibly. He will communicate up front with professors so they know this challenge, and he’ll go to them when he feels he’s fallen behind.
The IQ testing benefits for Jim were numerous. He was able to see how he could use his strengths to overcome some of his challenges, and what accommodations would help him overcome most of the rest. The benefits of intelligence testing are often that clear, and we always ensure that you get a comprehensive report that covers all of it.
FAQ
Here are some of the questions people often ask about IQ Testing.
You can also contact us or schedule a consultation to get more information (see below).
How Long Will IQ Testing Last?
IQ testing takes place during one session which lasts 90-120 minutes. We then have a 30-45 minute feedback session after the results are in.
How Specific are the Results of IQ testing?
All standard IQ tests are broken up into smaller subtests and composites. This ensures that you get much more than an overall score, with details about your strengths, opportunities for growth, and needs for support.
When Will I Get the Report?
We try to produce a draft psychological testing report within around 2 weeks from testing. Before issuing a final report, we will ensure it answers your questions.
Can IQ Testing be Combined with other Tests?
Yes, we often combine IQ testing with other assessments such as Personality evaluation, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intelligence Quotient (IQ), and Autism Spectrum Disorder. When we meet to go over your hopes and goals for testing, we may suggest a good combination that includes IQ and other tests.
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We’d be happy to talk to you more about how testing can benefit you.