IQ Booster: Improve Your Iq Performance Dramatically [Paperback]

Erwin Brecher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1996

Raise your actual IQ score by mastering these tests. Expand your powers of lateral thinking. Solve problems quickly with this foolproof method. Increase your overall "test confidence." Using visuo-spatial and lateral thinking techniques, along with other mind-stretching methods of looking at test questions, this unique preparation can actually help you get high scores on IQ tests! Learn how to analyze each question and figure out a quick way to answer it. When you understand the principles, it's easy to pass with flying colors. Have hours of fun with these mind-bending puzzles, and feel a real sense of achievement when you see your next IQ score! 128 pages, 7 3/8 x 9 5/8.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806994223
• ISBN-13: 978-0806994222
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,252,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Good First Try, August 24, 2000

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Charles Worton (edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IQ Booster: Improve Your Iq Performance Dramatically (Paperback)

First, the bad stuff; most of the book is practise test material, the author having decided to prove his contention that you can raise your IQ dramatically by reading his book and applying the lessons. There's very, very little here in terms of practical methods and techniques which you can apply; and most of it is pretty common sense stuff, like "there isn't much you can do with this particular type of question, other then try various approaches until one works".

On the positive side: the book is relatively inexpensive, it does contain SOME worthwhile information - certainly enough to justify its modest purchase price - and it does provide a good quantity of current IQ test questions. And therein lies its true value.

I firmly believe that the best way to do well on any kind of test is to become familiar with the material; and with IQ tests, the way to learn to do better is to do IQ tests. There are certainly enough of them out there, and doing the tests will do two things for you: first, you'll become better at solving problems, as your brain becomes more agile; and secondly, you'll start to recognise identical (and very similar) questions. You can only be tripped up by a trick question once, and there just aren't that many unique trick questions out there.

When the author revises his book, I'd invite him to quadruple the size of the test tips section. For example, he does include a very interesting collection of words that can be tacked onto the front or back of another word to make a new word - for example, SUN can be tacked onto SHINE to arrive at SUNSHINE. This is useful in solving the "what word can be added to the front of each of the following words, to arrive at new words" sort of question. I'd like to see a much larger list. I'd also like to see a relatively recent stanford/binet IQ test, rather then the authors nicely done, but unofficial, test. And standard questions from commonly used IQ tests - even a list of 500 or so questions - would be very helpful.

The bottom line is, you can raise your IQ dramatically by practising on a lot of IQ tests ahead of time. By bringing this point to the fore, the author has given test takers a valuable edge. The author could increase the size of the edge by increasing the number of tips, and by including more - and more commonly used - test questions.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book was not very helpful., June 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: IQ Booster: Improve Your Iq Performance Dramatically (Paperback)

One good thing about the book: it doesn't take long to get through it. Out of 125 pages, only 25 contain helpful content. The rest consists of 2 practice tests and answers. There all also very generous margins and wide spacing. Overall, there just isn't a lot of book here. During those 25 pages, the author explains the solutions to the "before" test, which does make it likely that you'll do better on the "after" test. I was hoping for generalized rules and strategies that would show one how to attack the sort of problems that crop up in an IQ test. There were some, but not as many as I had hoped. Also, I don't know how representative these questions were. Overall, I found the book somewhat helpful, but disappointing.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Clearly the answer is...???", July 13, 2002

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William (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IQ Booster: Improve Your Iq Performance Dramatically (Paperback)

Q: 2 is to 4 as 4 is to ? (16, 30, 8, 12)
A: "Clearly the answer is 8."

The above is taken as an excerpt from the book. But isn't 2 the squareroot of 4? And therefore with 4 being the squareroot of 16, isn't 2 is to 4 as 4 is to 16? Clearly the answer is not "Clearly 8". I am searching for a book filled with true logic challenges, not frustrating assumption and ignorance. Can somebody please recommend?