Intelligence test are being defined as an evaluation of what are the mental capacity of a person. This is basically assessing one’s ability to thinks, provide reasoning of a specific situation or scenario, understand complex knowledge or concept and even includes formulating solutions to a particular problem. Intelligence Test commonly measures a person’s understanding, reasoning, comprehesion and memory. Main purpose of conducting intelligence test is to determine general mental ability and identify the strength and weaknesses of one’s intellectual function. Examples of these are executing assessment of a person’s detemining a visual pattern, its arithmetic solving capabilities, and even verbal capacities. But how is this intelligence test can be beneficial and affects negatively at the same time all throughout.

Intelligence has the following advantages and strength accordingly. Many advantages are seen and presented. Intelligence test is an example of objective measurement. It provides accurate and predictive value of an individuals capacity to think. The said test can also be beneficial as part of diagnostic assessment in any field such as psychology. Evaluation in terms of this intellectual capacity can also be justified and used in researches.

However, this intelligence test has the its comon disadvantages. This tends to have only limited scope on which to measure. The result of this intelligence can be also misuse through discrimination cases among groups and school settings can be an example. Students with high intelligence quotient are being treated great while the students with the lowest results are not. Overemphasis about this score has also the tendency to ignore or underestimate the overall capacity of an individual.

In these cases, we must know how to properly utilize the result of this intelligence evaluation and become aware of its negatives aspect as it will not even acknowledge both creativity and social ability which are also significant.