Core Mind Builder Pro

by Core Learning

Product Features

• Stimulating tests designed by top MENSA puzzle editors and test experts.
• Hundreds of hours of intelligence testing to develop basic thinking skills.
• Increase your logical and abstract reasoning powers.
• Improve your problem solving abilities.
• Improve your mental agility with multi-tiered addition and subtraction exercises

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B000XTGHXW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,105 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Core Mind Builder PRO offers hundreds of hours of challenging tests which will keep your mind fit and develop basic thinking skills, increase logical and abstract reasoning powers, boost memory and improve problem solving abilities. Core Mind Builder Pro contains FOUR brain building software programs (Core Mind Builder, Core IQ Builder, Core Career Builder and Core Aptitude Builder). Derived from brain-based research, the extensive databases of questions designed by top MENSA puzzle editors and test experts can be used both to assess and to develop critical thinking and general intelligence skills as well as practical verbal, math and mechanical skills. Choices are available for test difficulty and controls on test conditions. Use these brain teasers for a pure mental challenge, or more seriously, get prepared for formal entrance tests such as the SAT, LSAT and MCAT. Core Mind Builder Pro also includes Addition and Subtraction exercises that challenge both working memory and long term memory which will not only keep memory function operating efficiently but will also support general mental processing capability. A wide range of skill levels to select from enables an individually suited starting point and an opportunity to progress. Choose Novice, Intermediate or Advanced Level math drills and the number ranges you want to practice with! Track your progress with saved records showing both time and accuracy for your math drills. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, July 22, 2008

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James Ramsey (Lakewood, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Core Mind Builder Pro (CD-ROM)

The "top test experts" who designed these tests seem to have given up half way. Some questions are good indicators of intelligence, and some are outright worthless. Questions like "what is the name of a school of trout" are sure to stump a lot of people, but not because only really smart people know this sort of thing, but rather because the term is not in common use and most people have no reason to need to know it.

There are also plenty of "complete this pattern" type questions, though some of the patterns lack sufficient contextual information for any person, no matter how brilliant, to have a prayer of figuring it out (unless they just remember the answer from the last time they saw it on the test). It is always easy to say "well if you were smart enough you would have figured it out," but that is not always true; some questions are based on too arbitrary a set of assumptions to be a useful judge of intelligence.

If you want to exercise your brain, just use any of the free online tests to judge your progress (or cough up the cash for a respectable test like the WAIS or whatever). Until then, just practice your math, logic, and vocabulary training...that is what most of these tests wind up fixating on anyway (and there are many free resources for this online...google is your friend!).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great for mensa intelect, not for beginners, January 9, 2008

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Michael Chase "Mike" (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Core Mind Builder Pro (CD-ROM)

I wanted a product intended to elevate my IQ and expected a product intended for those who are not Mensa level IQ's. What I found was a product not intended for "beginner" or "intermediate" levels but perfect for those with very high IQ's already.
Not at all what I wanted.
Mike