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Borderline MENSA

Since university time, I felt I'm getting more stupid because my grades are falling down. My math underperformed badly since third year of high school. So I'm wondering, is something wrong with me? Has my intelligence somewhat went down? I wasn't able to absorb the lessons very well, I was lost most of the time.


Today I was reading 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better when I found this:

Challenge yourself. People are often more intelligent than they realize. In a world that compartmentalizes and categorizes everything, not everyone is sure where they fit in. And genius can be found in many walks of life. If you honestly suspect that there's more to you than has been "allowed" to be let out, try an IQ test such as the one offered by MENSA. It's unlike the standardized IQ tests given in many schools. You know the kind — the ones which traumatize many young students into thinking they are stupid, simply because the tests don't really assess all student's knowledge and learning ability. And the ability to learn is far, far more important than what you already know.

Why not? But somehow there seems to be a problem with mensa.org site. So I ended up with http://www.iqtest.dk/.

On my first try, I get 127. Not so bad, but I screwed up a bit towards the end. I miscalculated the time left, so 1 or 2 questions are not answered. Besides, there was quite some disturbance and I was not in shape (tired and sleepy). Not satisfied and believing that MENSA level (130) is within reach, I tried again.

Note: the last few questions are totally ass, especially the last one, can't see any pattern there.

This is the result:


Borderline MENSA. Not bad. So I have proven that nothing is wrong with me. It's just laziness induced by bad education, haha. But will I make it if I take a real MENSA test? A Mensa member surely looks nice on resume.

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posted by Hendy Tanata @ 22:32