【HKIQ】An internationally-accepted IQ assessment conducted by the Hong Kong IQ Assessment Association (HKIQAA)

As parents, you may have encountered the following questions:

Is your child a genius?

If your child does not perform well academically at school at the moment, does it mean that he/she is dull?

If your child ranks the top at school right now, can he/she maintain such exceptional performance when promoted to secondary school?

IQ is always an unbiased measure to keep track of your child’s mental ability development. It is a fundamental indicator about children’s ability to think logically and resolve problems facing unfamiliar situations. In reality, there are many factors affecting children’s ability to learn, such as the environment, teaching methods and children’s interests. Concluding a child’s mental ability only based on academic results at school is over-simplistic. What truly measures a child’s mental ability is Intelligence Quotient (IQ), a well-known indicator of one’s intelligence.

Based on surveys, many students performing well at primary schools cannot maintain their excellent academic results when promoted to secondary schools. Often enough children lose their confidence and this further worsens their academic performance. Research findings indicate that one major contributing factor is the lack of proper intellectual development during primary schools. After children have been promoted to secondary schools, parents usually follow the same way to guide their children’s academic learning as they did in primary schools. Unfortunately, the ability to adapt to the increasingly sophisticated curriculum depends a lot on children’s mental ability to cope with new problems in strange settings. Thus, parents should focus on their children’s mental development and IQ is exactly the measure that reflects children’s ability to analyze and resolve problems in new circumstances. So the earlier you keep an eye on your children’s IQ, the earlier you can discover their talents or limitations and hence maximize their intellectual development.

【HKIQ】, adopting the internationally-accepted methodology of Raven’s Progressive Matrices, is an IQ assessment test for children conducted by the Hong Kong IQ Assessment Association. It serves as a best reference for parents to understand children’s intelligence.