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    How To Increase Your Brain-Power And Intelligence - with Tips on Excelling in IQ & Aptitude Tests
    How To Increase Your Brain-Power And Intelligence - with Tips on Excelling in IQ & Aptitude Tests
    How To Increase Your Brain-Power And Intelligence - with Tips on Excelling in IQ & Aptitude Tests
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    How To Increase Your Brain-Power And Intelligence - with Tips on Excelling in IQ & Aptitude Tests

    By Kerwin Mathew

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    The brain is a wonderful creation of nature which is very complex and little understood. It is said that we only utilize about ten per cent of our full mental capacity, with the other 90 per cent being untapped. What a waste! If we could make better use of our brains, more of our problems would be solved, more wonderful things would be invented, and the world would definitely be the better for it.

    This book is about making the brain better, stronger and more efficient. The author has been experimenting with certain forms of brain training which have proven helpful and would like to share all this in this book. This book would be a useful guide for those who are keen on self-development and those taking IQ and aptitude tests such as Mensa, SAT, GRE and GMAT.

    The author has been a trainer for GRE candidates as well as candidates for other important national exams, many of whom have done very well. The tips and techniques for brain development and tackling IQ and aptitude tests in the book have been utilized by both the author and his students.

    The author thinks that thanks to the techniques in the book which he has personally been using to cultivate his mind he has finally found the solution to a very important technical problem, in fact the most important problem in the field, which had been reviewed and approved by field experts and has just been published in an international research journal.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    The author has published about 20 books, two of which have been adopted as reference texts and commended by professional bodies. He was also the editor of a book of essays. He has taught many professional and management subjects for years. He has published a number of important papers, including several papers on the solutions to some famous, unsolved problems, in international research journals and has served on the faculty of an American research university as a professor. He has received publicity from the press for his intellectual achievements.

     

     

     

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKerwin Mathew
    Release dateApr 6, 2014
    ISBN9781498988858
    How To Increase Your Brain-Power And Intelligence - with Tips on Excelling in IQ & Aptitude Tests
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    Kerwin Mathew

    Kerwin Mathew has published about 20 books, two of which have been adopted as reference texts and commended by professional bodies. He was also the editor of a book of essays. He has taught many professional and management subjects for years. He has published a number of important papers, including several papers on the solutions to some famous, unsolved problems, in research journals and has served on the faculty of an American research university as a professor. He has received publicity from the press for some intellectual achievement.  

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    How To Increase Your Brain-Power And Intelligence - with Tips on Excelling in IQ & Aptitude Tests - Kerwin Mathew

    HOW TO INCREASE YOUR BRAIN-POWER AND INTELLIGENCE

    with tips on excelling in IQ & aptitude tests

    PREFACE

    The brain can in some way be compared to a car engine. The car may have a powerful engine but the driver plays an important role too. Granted, that a powerful car engine makes all the difference. But the driver must know how to take care of and handle the car and car engine to make the car perform smoothly and efficiently. The same goes for the owner of the brain. The brain is even better and more powerful than a car engine. Like a muscle, it can grow better and stronger with exercise, which has been confirmed.

    This book is about making the brain better, stronger and more efficient. The author has been experimenting with certain forms of brain training which have proven helpful and would like to share all this in this book.

    Kerwin Mathew, Ph.D., PE, CMfgT, CPM

    CONTENTS

    Preface

    1. Introduction

    2. Cultivate The Useful Kinds Of Intelligence

    3. Tips On Excelling In IQ And Aptitude Tests

    4. Further Tips On Excelling In IQ And Aptitude Tests

    5. The Most Important Factor Contributing To Greater Brain-Power And Intelligence

    6. How Geniuses Develop Their Mental Capacity

    7. How To Be Even Smarter

    8. Epilogue

    Bibliography

    1  INTRODUCTION

    Francis Galton, a nineteenth-century British scientist, originated the earliest organized thought on the concept of intelligence testing. He came up with the idea of investigating the relationship between heredity and human ability after Charles Darwin published The Origin

    of Species in 1859. The prevailing thought of the time was that the human race had only

    a handful of really intelligent people and a small number of mentally deficient people, while the greater part of the population fell within a narrow band of intelligence. Galton believed that mental traits were based on physical factors and were inherited, just like blood type and eye color. His work was also influenced by Quetelet, a Belgian statistician, who was the

    first to apply statistical methods to the study of human characteristics. It was Quetelet who first postulated the concept of a normal distribution of intelligence on a bell curve. Galton published his ideas in a book titled Hereditary Genius, which is considered the first scientific investigation on the concept of intelligence.

    However, it was the French psychologist Alfred Binet who first devised a test to assess human intelligence. Binet had been interested in developing a test to measure intelligence in

    children. He commenced trial testing with Parisian students to determine what the normal abilities would be for a certain age and identify those who were below the norm. In 1904, the French government commissioned Binet to find a method of differentiating between children who were intellectually normal and those who were inferior, with the object of putting the inferior children into special schools where they would receive additional schooling. Binet’s test was called the Binet Scale; it was at this time that the phrase intelligence quotient, or, IQ first made its appearance.

    An American school administrator, H. H. Goddard, who found out about Binet’s work in France, decided to use the latter’s test to screen students for his school. After knowledge of Goddard’s use of Binet’s test spread across the country, a Stanford professor, Lewis Terman, worked on revising Binet’s test; in 1916, he published his seminal work, the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Scale of Intelligence (also known as the Stanford-Binet), which quickly became the gold standard for intelligence testing in the United States for the next several decades.

    When the U.S. entered World War I, its army was faced with the problem of sorting huge numbers of draftees into various army positions. To overcome this problem, the army

    assembled an ad hoc committee of the top psychologists in the country to design an intelligence test for new recruits. Lewis Terman was on this committee. The committee

    adopted a standard test for all new recruits, which, by 1919, was taken by nearly two million soldiers. The army’s test put intelligence testing on the map and its popularity exploded since then.

    Many companies, building on the army’s popular intelligence test, began their own forms of intelligence testing to determine potential new employees,

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