Basically what the title says. Are the differences in intelligence of people with different IQs more obvious in kindergarten/early primary school or in late teens/adulthood?
Also apparently people's IQ can change when they grow older? How does that work?
For reference I wanted to do Eng main or Lit, but I was heavily pressured into doing this for the scaling and because it's more "objective". And now I'm really regetting my decision because I just don't know what to do in this subject and I know I could've done so much better in Eng main.
Like I can identify the metalanguage and explain its immediate effect just fine, but I find it difficult linking to purpose or situational context. I just don't know what to write because everything I can think of sounds like Eng main analysis rather than Englang analysis. I bumbled my way through the first SAC by memorising a ton of stuff that my tutor gave me, but I recently found out she uses ChatGPT for everything so I dropped her. Now I have no idea what to do for my second SAC (AC + SAQ) because I literally just don't know what to write to analyse my examples.
Also I feel like I've just been told a lot of conflicting stuff and I don't know what to believe anymore. My tutor told me to always talk about audience positioning when analysing my examples, but according to my school teacher that is Eng main-type analysis and for Englang I should focus solely on analysing language features. But then she didn't explicitly say how to link that to purpose and context. And I tried looking at past high-scoring responses but I can't seem to copy what they do either.
Is anyone going through the same thing? Can anyone help me with this? I should've just trusted and listened to myself and chose Eng main honestly my life would be SO MUCH easier
I go to school in a country where there is practically zero gifted identification or programs. It's also almost impossible to skip a grade even if it's clear you're several years ahead intellectually. IQ tests are rarely done and even if they are done it's mostly to identify intellectual disabilities rather than giftedness.
(So just as a disclaimer because there has not been formal testing done it's entirely possible that I'm not gifted at all so perhaps this whole post is moot lol. The only reason I suspect I'm gifted is because I relate to the struggles and experiences of gifted people outlined both on here and from other sources, and I got 130+ on every test I did on the cognitivemetrics website, but I know they might not be accurate because they're not administered by a psychologist.)
But yeah I suppose my question is what did I miss out on by not getting formal identification and the enrichment and acceleration that comes with it? I am reaching the end of my schooling now (graduating high school this year) but throughout school I was bored out of my mind. I hated almost every second of it and hardly learnt anything from Years 2-8
Idk man, I'm bored and I just wanted to see what people think/can tell from my profile in these tests I did a few months back. I think my CORE profile is relatively flat with the biggest difference between indices being 16 points, but let me know what you all think.
