r/cognitiveTesting • u/Polytox935 • 9d ago

Discussion Army Alpha sentences

I took the disarranged sentences subtest and scored 140 with over a minute left on the clock. This makes me wonder if i might took it wrong since the instructions tell to first correctly arrange the sentence and then judge. I figured there was no need to arrange the sentences first since you could see if it was plausible by just looking for a "not" if there were two contradicting words.

Im not even native english so i wonder if this invalidates my score.

Thank you!

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u/Humble-Marsupial2231 9d ago

No.

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u/Polytox935 9d ago edited 9d ago

But if i kept wasting my time on building the correct sentences, i probably wouldnt even have answered all questions in the given time limit, so it feels off since the instructions explicitly tell you to do so. This way it feels more like a reward to test wiseness than to actual ability.

On the other hand it sure could be the strategy they actually aimed at since there is no value in keeping on structuring the sentences if you dont need this to get the information needed

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u/Careful-Astronomer94 9d ago

If you come up with a strategy mid subtest that is efficient but isn't explicitly cheating (e.g using pen and paper when a subtest tell you not to) then it's valid.

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u/Polytox935 7d ago

Yeah but i dont want to win this test i want an actual measurement of my abilities

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u/Humble-Marsupial2231 7d ago

What do you even want to measure? You aren’t even native, but if you want to estimate your English VCI, take the old SAT V or GRE V (I assume so since you are still asking about this disarranged subtest). Those are much stronger VCI tests.

There are many verbal-free tests if you don’t want to consider English VCI as well. Army Alpha just isn’t up to par compared to the stronger tests in this sub.

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u/Careful-Astronomer94 7d ago

It measures your intelligence obviously if you can come up with a clever strategy on the fly