What are the best ways to improve your IQ ?

Question

What are the best ways to "improve" your IQ score, and what is an IQ. Is it how much knowlege you have or, something other ?

Answer 1

Intelligence quotient (IQ) is an age-related measure of intelligence level and is defined as 100 times the mental age. The word quotient means the results of dividing one quantity by another, and intelligence can be defined as mental ability or quickness of mind.

An intelligence test (IQ test) is, by definition, any test that purports to measure intelligence. Generally such tests consist of a graded series of tasks, each of which has been standardised with a large representative population of individuals. Such procedure establishes the average IQ as 100.

It is generally believed that a person’s IQ rating is hereditary and that a persons mental age remains constant in development to about the age of thirteen, after which it is shown to slow up; and beyond the age of eighteen little or no improvement is found. When measuring the IQ of a child, the subject will attempt an IQ test which has been standardised with an average score recorded for each age group. Thus a child of ten years of age who scored the results expected of a child of twelve would have an IQ of 120, calculated as follows:
mental age (12) over chronological age (10) x 100 = 120

However, because in adulhood little or no improvement in IQ rating is found, adults have to be judged on an IQ test whose average score is 100 and their results graded above and below this norm according to known scores.

During the past 25-30 years IQ testing has been brought into widespread use by employers because of their need to ensure they place the right people in the right job from the outset. One of the main reasons for this in today’s world of tight purse strings, cost-cutting and low budgets is the high cost of errors in employing the wrong person for a job, including the need to re-advertise and interview new applicants, and reinvestment in training.

Because IQ is hereditary and it is not, therefore, possible to increase your actual IQ; it is, nevertheless, possible to improve your performance on IQ tests by practising the many different types of question, and learning to recognise the recurring themes. It is my belief that by practise ondifferent types of IQ tests, and by getting your mind attuned to the different types of questions you may encounter, it is possible to improve by a few vital percentage points. It is these few percentage points that may prove crucial in increasing your employment prospects and mean the difference between success or failure when attending one of the many job interviews which include the taking of an IQ test. More information at the site - http://www.knowl.demon.co.uk/page9.html

Answer 2

By definition there is no way to improve the IQ, which represents how good you are at solving certain standard tests. If something is beyond your skills for such tests, it is likely that it will remain that way. Assume for a second that these tests measure intelligence (people said that in the 50s, but nowadays most psychologists agree that there are so many dimensions to "intelligence", that it would be very narrow to define it just based on an IQ test). Now, putting things to the extreme, imagine a sheep, and you. There are quite a few things that you do, that the sheep's intelligence will never be capable of, even if you trained it for years. Back to the tests. As I said, the theory is that you cannot improve your IQ. However in practice you can train yourself to pass IQ tests, at least a good deal of them, because if you familiarize yourself with the style of some questions, you'll be a bit faster. And being a bit faster may allow you to resolve a couple extra questions. Which will not boost your real intelligence of course, but will boost your IQ, as measured by some tests. But since you are not the only one to attempt this, test managers actually try to adjust for it, and as a result a result that may have given you a 140 (genius) in the 1950s, may only give you 125-130 on an adjusted basis today. Final note: you may want to think for a sec about why you want to pass IQ tests. In the hope of reaching 140 and thus have the "right" to be called a "genius"? But will this improve anything to your life? Is there a point to all this? My take is that if you're smart, you know it already and don't need a proof. And what counts in life is whether you'll be able to put your intelligence at work in a field that you enjoy. Hope this helps a

Answer 3

I don't know about IQ "score" as such, because noone's ever established the extent to which those tests reflect actual intelligence.

Of course, anything that requires you to use and develop your mental faculties, inlcuding good old study, is worth pursuing throughout your life.

There's also evidence that listening to classical music (especially Bach and Mozart), and drawing can increase intelligence.

There was also an experiment conducted in Soledad Men's Prison in the US in the 1960s: when a group of inmates were assigned Karl Marx to read all their IQ scores went up 5%.

That'd be dialectical and historical materialism 1, post modernism 0.

Answer 4

Intelligence quotient or IQ is part intuition and part learning. The best way you can improve your IQ is by constant reading and engaging in logical arguments and analysis. Most designers of IQ score tests do not take cultural differences into consideration; what they normally try to do is to assess overlapping field of experience.

Answer 5

It's all to do with Logic, Reasoning and Lateral thinking.

There are online tests you can do for free.

IQ is only one way to test a persons ability. Many intelligent people do not necessarily have a high IQ.

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I have never heard of an employer use an IQ test. They do use Psychometric testing, which has nothing to do with intelligence. It's to match personality traits to certain types of jobs so they get a good long term employee.

Answer 6

Anything over a 130 IQ is considered genius. 100 IQ is average. Under 100 IQ is worrying. Between 100 and 130 IQ is a grey area.

If you want it tested properly check out Mensa.

Answer 7

Nothing to do with knowledge it is a the ability to think logically and the way to improve, at least as far as doing IQ test are concerned is to do lots of logic based puzzles. There are other types of intelligence my wife could not do a logic puzzle to save her life but she holds far more professional qualifications than I do and has a mind like a razor

Answer 8

Best ways to improve IQ are

Solve as much puzzles as you can.
Do yogic exercises such as relaxation.
Solving mathematics and physics problems.
Logical thinking or thinking on any situation.

and do all this things on your own.

Answer 9

go to school

Answer 10

Smoke lots of pot. Its little known. But it turns you into a genius