Is there anyway to increase IQ?

Answer 1

too all of you who said study.... WRONG.

IQ is not based on what you know, its based on your capacity for resaoning and cognitive ablility

also, depends on the test. there are several different tests of IQ.

your IQ is simply a measure of your ablility to learn.

Answer 2

IQ levels are usually set by the time you enter school. There are games you can play with a young child to help increase their IQ, but once you reach school age, it is usually set. I say "usually" because some people have been tested as having poor IQs and yet they aren't un-intelligent. They are just misunderstood due to communication problems and other issues (think of an autistic savant: he/she may have a tremendous talent and yet he/she has to have time to sit in the corner hours a day watching the sun reflect off objects in the room... the person may have incredible abilities, but -- stick them in a classroom, and they can't function.)

The reason the government has begun their early childhood programs is because they realized that trying to reach kids at age 5 wasn't soon enough. So, now they are considering dropping the age from 4 to 3 or even 2. If a child is stimulated as a baby, and has no communication problems, they will generally have a higher IQ than a child raised with a mom who never nurtures them or talks to them.

There was one study conducted about 20 years ago. Students were tested before anything was done. When the testing was over, they had the students listen to classical music -- to be specific, it was Mozart. When the music ended, the students scored higher on certain aspects of the IQ test, mostly dealing with spatial-temporal reasoning. Some people think the music stimulates areas of the brain to make their brains function better. Sadly, the effect lasted only a short time. Because of this study, I tended to listen to Mozart before exams. I did do better, but I have no way of knowing if it was because I'd listened to the music and it relaxed me or if I *believed* listening to the music would help me. (placebo effect)

Answer 3

The best way to increase the IQ is to always practice what you study. A person becomes more intelligent by being more flexible and adaptable to changes in learning and experience.

Allow urself room for mistakes that u do. Eat brain foods like almonds. Don't let ur brain wander when u do a task. Concentrate thoroughly on tasks that u do, even little things. Play chess or other mind games. In a nutshell, when u feel pressure on brain, thats when u start to think logically.

Answer 4

Yes, but you have to focus your studying on the right types of things, like logic and math, and maybe vocabulary. Those are the subjects that IQ tests emphasize.

With that said, a high IQ score is wildly overrated. Most people in Mensa are complete dorks and losers, whose only source of pride is their high IQ.

It's better to be well-organized and hard-working than smart.

Answer 5

You can't really increase your IQ during lifetime. What you can do is increase specific types of intelligence. Emotional, intuitional. Also you can mass increase you knowledge about everything. History, geography, culture. There is not practical limit to this. Play word games, number games.

Answer 6

People say that if you use different parts of your brain by doing logic, word and math puzzles you can start to increase your brain power. I've been doing these for a while and my IQ went up by 30 points.

Answer 7

The only way i can think of you increasing your IQ is simply to research various topics and do memory testing games, these help improve your knowledge and so you will do better the next time you try.
I wouldn't worry about it too much though everyone improves with age, you just tend to pick things up over time.

Answer 8

No....A person's IQ will never vary more than a few points in their lifetime.

It is based on how fast one learns, and other un-learnable abilities like spatial reasoning etc. Studying will not work.

Answer 9

the only thank you to impove your math skills is to coach prepare and prepare extra. As for IQ, its realli very perplexing to improve it. you are able to attempt analyzing an excellent form of books, or according to threat attempt doing particularly some IQ quiz.

Answer 10

If you're young, yes. Exercise your brain with puzzles, books, study, and imagination. Eat well and give your body what it needs to develop. Our brains sever useless (unused) neural connections fairly early. If you don't use it, you lose it.

If you're grown, coaching can help slightly on some tests... but there's not much else you can do.

Answer 11

No amount of studying will help your iq.Your ig measures how intelligent you are not how well educated you are.If you want to improve your iq boost your consintration by doing suduko and mental iritmatic and cod liver oil and oily fishes also boost your consintration levels