Message to parents

With the announcement of the results of the aptitude test, some parents are concerned about their children's IQ and their academic future. It seems that these parents believe that IQ is the main predictor of success in studies and various areas of life. This is an incorrect belief, as the concept of intelligence measured by the tests used only refers to the child's ability to solve certain types of educational problems, such as understanding abstract relationships between objects, and dealing with symbols and abstractions.

Parents should realize that the ability test does not measure all the abilities that an individual possesses. There are many special abilities that these tests do not measure. Therefore, your child obtaining a certain score does not in itself guarantee high or low levels of achievement in the future. These tests also do not measure, to a large extent, creative abilities, which represent a major source of many of the successes that they can achieve in their professional lives. 

Dear guardian: A student’s low score on intelligence tests is not necessarily an indication of a low level of intelligence in the individual. A student’s low score may result from temporary and situational factors while the student is taking the test, such as the state of tension and anxiety that some children experience, or his lack of understanding of the nature of the questions or the way to answer them, or as a result of his lack of familiarity with test situations.

Another important point that parents should pay attention to is that talent is not only composed of mental abilities, but also of personal and social factors, and the environment plays an important role in the development of talent. All of these factors work in an interconnected and interactive manner in order to develop talented performance in our children. It should also be noted that many great scientists and innovators were not recognized as talented in their childhood, whether in their schools or in their families. The matter remains related to the extent of opportunities and care that the individual receives from his family, and the support and encouragement that we must provide to our children and motivate them to make more efforts to achieve themselves in the fields they love and care about. We should not shake their confidence in themselves and their belief in their abilities and talents.

Our children are in constant need of support, motivation and encouragement, and we will not stop providing this to them in every way possible. This is our duty towards them, and this is also what they deserve from all of us.