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How did (or do) your IQ and academic performance throughout school correlate?

Did you do as well as you could?
Were you a high-achiever perhaps?
Or an underachiever?

If you were an underachiever: do you know what prevented you from using your potential?
If you were a high-achiever: what enabled you to be better than you 'should' have?


I'll start with saying that I know no definite reason why I did horrible in school. Professionals cannot explain it either. Great.

I had 59 teachers during my school carrier and 2 approached me suggesting I might be gifted. Most teachers thought I was 'struggling'. Some outright said they suspected I was LD. Well, I am pretty sure my autistic behaviour reinforced this claim.

Anyway, my dreadful performance led to that I had to change schools a lot which messed up my grades further. (You must know that my country has 3 (4) different school types that are selected depending on your previous achievement.)

Correlated during high school; I just came off a bad first semester in college though.

I never was in sync with school because it was so regimented and standardized and extremely boring.
I am an extremely spatial/visual learner and in those days schools taught with strictly linear methods so I'm basically self educated. I just quit going to school in the 7th grade and bacame a habitual truant.

Grade 1 to 2, and 2 again, good with most stuff except reading and writing. Given IQ test due to verbal problems, said to be "high", assumed that I just didn't want to read and write by the person who administered it (I can't remember this period of time). Eventually got it after many hours spent by my mother and teachers.

Grade 3 to 7 I did quite well (gifted program in grade 5, but that was only for a week due to being incompatible with it, but I hit the required IQ to get in).

Grade 8 to 10 went from decent to just passing.

Grade 11 was all Fs, and I left halfway through such due to not being able to handle it. Had an IQ test here, and I couldn't answer a single question on it due to being so overwhelmed. Skipped classes and went and sat under a tree in a nice quiet spot often.

I don't think my cognitive pattern changed, even though they do say that those with Autism can become "dumber" in adolescence; the teaching style in high school wasn't suited for me. In primary school, they put the work down in front of me and told me to do it, and I did. In high school, you were meant to study on your own time, and no one told me to do anything but homework (which I never did)--if I'm given a free rein, I go and obsess over what I like, not silly schoolwork.

I guess I performed below my ability in high school, which is typical for people with an ASD (especially AS, but that's probably because they're in mainstream schooling more).

(From the pattern above, you can see why I thought I had Schizophrenia with predominately negative symptoms due to the apparent problems at the start of adolescence.)

I've had professionals tell me I did very well considering everything.

I did well on some subjects, mainly those I was interested in because these were the only ones I actually attended. unfortunately my poor attendance kind of ruined my reputation so after some time I would get low grades regardless of my academic performance, just because I was perceived as someone who doesn't care.

I dunno...when I concentrated, I could hold a B average; when I didn't care, I had a C average . I used to take tests without studying some years...those were the C years.
C average for the BA
B average for the AAS

But in all of the IQ threads here, I come out the stoopidest...

I answered that it did not correlate for various above reasons. According to my IQ, I should have done VERY well. I DID do very well prior to the 3rd grade. I probably did only a bit better than average in a lot of things after that. Of course, it depended on the subject. So WHY didn't I do better?

1. I was BORED! I didn't want to study half the stuff, do homework, etc....
2. I didn't do P.E., I think that was because of common problems associated with AS
3. I suspect I did daydream too much.
4. I had various obsessive interests, etc...
5. In some classes I had to tell about my life, or interview others and, well, you can guess!
6. I moved around/changed schools a LOT

SO, in social or composition classes I didn't do so well. In more advanced math I didn't do so well. In english or computer classes I did VERY well. C'est la vie

Given the demographics here, I should say they were normal schools, and I had no I.E.P.

Interesting topic, I voted for the second option. I cruised through school with minimal effort (that is to say, none) and top tier grades until about grade 10, at which point I barely passed. I had entered a phase, more out of survival to due to the extreme threat and stress of the high school environment, where I deliberately did poorly as this was the cool thing to do.

I never attended to my organizational and study skills which afflicts me to this day. School is not so much an intellectual challenge as learning a system of study (and not one that necessarily encourages learning). If you pick that up, everything becomes extremely easy.