Originally posted by: IEatChildren
Your IQ doesn't represent actual intelligence, but more like your capacity to learn. And it's affected by what you do everyday. Anything intellectually stimulating (like going to school) can raise your IQ temporarily
...however, if you're good at test taking, you'll show having a higher IQ. Likewise just being bad at tests.
As well, it isn't as much capacity for learning as much as it is capacity for abstract problem solving.
Like SATs, it's just another test that you either don't care about, or brag about like an idiot ( a very smart idiot, maybe, but an idiot, thinking that it really matters).