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Tips to Raise Your IQ

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is one of the measures for calculating a person's intellectual capability. This term was coined in 1912 by a German psychologist, William Stern to analyze one's intelligence. According to the Webster dictionary, intelligence quotient is defined as - "a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100)". The average score is 100 and, above 130 is a superior high score and those who score 130+ are considered to be intellectually gifted.

Pointers to Enhance Your IQ

In this section, I am going to provide you with some tips that you can make use of to try and heighten you intelligence levels. They are as follows:

Learn and Practice Aptitude Problems

Solving quantitative maths problems like probability, permutations and combinations, mixtures and allegations, distance-time problems, etc., associates mathematics with our daily life and improves our mental mathematical ability. Data interpretation and problem solving improve your analytical skills. These conceptual problems help us to increase IQ levels and aptitude skills. Solving such problems can surely enhance your logical and reasoning ability thereby, increasing your IQ.

Practice Reading and Verbal Comprehension

When you read comprehensions, your understanding ability and knowledge increases. Verbal passages improve your vocabulary skill and work power, which helps you to get a good IQ score. Try to inculcate the habit of reading good books like classic novels, etc.

Play Games

Playing games such as tennis, basket ball, table tennis, badminton, etc., stimulates mental acuteness and sharpness. Rapid movements while playing enhances blood flow to the brain and focused eye-hand coordination helps to improve concentration. Playing chess improves your IQ level by making you a logical thinker and an intellect. It makes you stay concentrated for a longer period of time and shapes you to become a good problem solver.

Try Solving Rubik's Cube and Crossword Puzzle

Rubik's cube and crosswords are mental stimulating puzzles that can surely boost your IQ level. The puzzles improve your memory level and help to maintain short-term memory and concentration power. These activities are proved to ward off dementia that usually occur at an old age. Scientific studies reveal that mind stimulating and challenging exercises such as solving crosswords, Rubik's cube, etc., generates new cells and keeps neutrons alive for a longer period of time in our body. Apart from improving your IQ level, solving these puzzles can be a good pass time activity also. Solving crossword puzzles can improve your general knowledge as well.

Eat Nutritious Food

It is a scientific fact that continuous and regular consumption of junk food causes damage to the brain cells, so avoid such food items. Eat food that is rich in vitamins such as citrus fruits, green vegetables, walnuts, etc. It has also been proven that inositol improves mental concentration and increases physical activity.

Techniques Used to Increase IQ

Now that we have gone through some tips to raise IQ levels, let's glance through a couple of techniques to help you enhance your IQ.

VAK technique

It is a teaching method that combines sensory components such as vision, hearing (auditory) and kinesthesis. Reading and writing practice and tests through graphical representations and illustrations are given to those who prefer to learn by visual methods. In auditory method, the learner takes up information through conversations and by listening to lectures through audio tapes. Kinesthetic learners are taught through writing practice and motion involved activities.

Image Streaming

Image streaming is a modern technique that helps to build up a person's creative thinking. By visualizing certain problems, you can get a solution. This technique was developed by Win Wenger, and he describes this technique as an intelligent factor of the famous scientist, Albert Einstein. This technique combines both 'visual and verbal' thinking, which is a cause for increase in intelligence. Image streaming restores the memory in our subconscious mind.

There are also techniques such as Pseudo Telekinesis, PTMR, Mental Rotation, Brain Harmonics, Dualist Mental Expansion, etc., that can increase you IQ level to a certain extent. Some people believe that IQ is determined by genes of a person, but it is not completely true. In addition to genetic factors, environmental factors and a person's effort to improve IQ, also plays an important role in determining a person's IQ. Remember that, not only your high IQ level will give you success, but also, your personality and good natured behavior with others will determine your success.

Apply your intelligence in a good way and learn to understand things rather than aiming only for the high IQ score. For your reference, here is an IQ chart to help you determine your intelligence level. Follow the steps I have mentioned in this article, and you are sure to become an intellect.

By Suganya Sukumar
Published: 7/15/2011

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/tips-to-raise-your-iq.html

Summary

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is one of manners to measure the intellegence of someone. For people who have score about 100, they are categorized into average intellegent. Score above 130 into superior intellegent and more than 130 into genius intellegent. In the below will be explained about pointers to Raise IQ.

Pointers to Raise IQ

1.      Learn to solve a problem

·         Solving quantitative and conceptual problems

·         Increase skills and talents

·         Increase to think logic and reasoning

2.      Be a reading lover

·         Accustom reading habit since kid time

·         Increase vocabulary in mind

·         Practice in speaking

3.      Play games and sport

·         Increase the critical thinking

·         Concentration train

·         Sharpen long-term and short-term memory

4.      Consume the nutritious food

·         Increase the consumption of nutritious in body for increasing the mental concentration

·         Increase energy to do physical activities

Beside that, there is techniques to raise IQ which are used to get some informations. First, you can use visual method. By the visual method, you can make graphic or draw a picture. Second, you can use audio method. You can do conversation with other person or listening activity. Third, you can use kinesthetic method. By the kinesthetic method, you can try practice writing or do physical activities. On the other hand, there is modern technique which can help people to build up their creative thinking called image streaming.

Reflection                                 

I think the articel is very great because in there explain about pointers and techniques to raise IQ. On the other hand, the articel does not explain about the result of IQ accounting in details. The articel just explain the general information of measuring IQ. The raise of IQ can be affected by internal and exsternal factors. For example, in internal factor is gen or offspring. If in a family, there is a smart one, so another will be more motivated to be smarter. Beside gen, environment is the exsternal factor which affects the raise of IQ. For example, if someone live in supporting environment, so they want to be better. All those things depend on ourself. Whether we want to be better or we do not. If we will try, we can be the best. In the reality, there are some people who have average IQ, but they can be the best in their environment because they want to try and increase their capability and skills. They usually want to try the new experience like challenge. There are also some people who have genius IQ, but they cannot increase their capability and skills. They just stay in one place.

I can draw a picture and calligraphy from my father gen. Beside that, when I was still twelfth grades, I had some smart friends. I got motivation to be better from them. Previously, I was lazy to do assignment, but I felt shame because my friends were diligent to do assignment. I tried to be diligent like my friends. Finally, in the final examination, I got good mark. I was very happy.