First I have to admit, I'm getting a bit obsessed with these things, it's hard not to in a technological/scientific society if you ask me.
I'm a High School Junior, 16 years old, male.
Anyway, my school is too politically-correct to give us straight IQ tests, and too small to have an accelerated class (150 students). So I'm seeking answers in respects to my intelligence. Here's a brief testing history:
Elementary school.
Gates tests: 99 percentile across the board.
CAT test: 99 across the board in reading, between 94 and 99 in math.
I may just be making excuses for myself here, I honestly don't know really. But I feel that since my school lacked an accelerated class and since I somehow wasn't offered the chance to move forward in regards to grade level (I had straight A+'s without effort in elementary), I became bored and slacked off a bit between grades seven and ten. I stayed on honor roll, was in honors classes, but didn't really try very hard. Near the end of my Sophomore year I began to apply myself a bit and got onto high honors and have remained on since. I now consistently receive the best scores in my AP classes.
So I took the PSATs this year. I got a 65/68/63, correlating to the 95th percentile. In case anyone reading this question doesn't know that much about the PSATs, not every takes them. So that 95 percentile is out of the perhaps forty percent of students who take the test.
I also took the same test during my Sophomore year (the last year) and got a 64/48/65 (I wasn't able to finish all of the questions in the math section). But this still managed to get me into the 98th.
Because of my nonchalant trip through much of High School, I think perhaps the other students could be pulling ahead a bit because of the sheer amount of effort they put into their school work. Again, I feel that the lack of an accelerated class at my school harmed me in this sense.
So there's my story, what did you glean from it? Please say anything and everything you have in mind, whether you think I'm a genius or a freak or whatever. My personal evaluation of myself is that I'm genius or near-genius but its hard for me to stay objective with such a thing. Thanks a lot for your time.