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What are intelligence tests? How are they useful? The score you make on an intelligence test is called your I. Q. which means intelligence quotient. If your score is high, you have a high I. Q. Most intelligence tests contain questions that test chiefly two kinds of skill: skill with words, or verbal ability, and skill with numbers, or mathematical ability. There are other kinds of intelligence that most tests do not measure.
    If you think about this, you will understand that most standard intelligence tests cannot test everyone’s mental ability. Neither do they measure all kinds of mental ability. They are designed to test the mental abilities you use in school. That is why girls and boys who have high I. Q. are quite likely to be those who get high grades.
    The results of an intelligence test are not final. A child may do poorly on such a test one year for many reasons. He may do better the next year. Children who do not score high on a test are not necessarily stupid. In fact, the people who are most creative, or talented, do not always get the highest scores on such tests.
    Intelligence tests can be very useful, however, so can other kinds of tests. All such tests help teachers see how they can best help the pupils. They show how a girl or boy is developing year by year.