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Book Review: Increase Your Brainpower

This book review summarizes the book "Increase Your Brainpower" by Philip Carter and Ken Russell. The book discusses intelligence and what it means to be intelligent. It explains that intelligence consists of specific abilities like adaptability, reasoning, comprehension, and original thought. It also discusses IQ testing and how IQ scores relate to factors like health, family background, and parental IQ. The book provides exercises that test spatial ability, logical thought, verbal ability, and math skills. It provides steps to increase brainpower, such as getting a good education, eating a healthy diet, getting quality sleep, limiting alcohol/drugs, and listening to classical music.

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Book Review: Increase Your Brainpower

This book review summarizes the book "Increase Your Brainpower" by Philip Carter and Ken Russell. The book discusses intelligence and what it means to be intelligent. It explains that intelligence consists of specific abilities like adaptability, reasoning, comprehension, and original thought. It also discusses IQ testing and how IQ scores relate to factors like health, family background, and parental IQ. The book provides exercises that test spatial ability, logical thought, verbal ability, and math skills. It provides steps to increase brainpower, such as getting a good education, eating a healthy diet, getting quality sleep, limiting alcohol/drugs, and listening to classical music.

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INCRESE YOUR
PHILIP CARTER AND KEN
BRAINPOWER
RUSSELL

PRESENTED
BY----
ALPHONSA &
NITIN
Intelligence is the ability to learn about, learn from, understand, and
interact with one’s environment.

This general ability consists of a number of specific abilities, which include these
specific abilities:

Adaptability to a new environment or to changes in the Current environment


Capacity for knowledge and the ability to acquire it
Capacity for reason and abstract thought
Ability to comprehend relationships
Ability to evaluate and judge
Capacity for original and productive thought
An intelligence test is a questionnaire or series of exercises designed
to measure intelligence. There are many types of intelligence tests,
and they may measure learning and/or ability in a wide variety of
areas and skills. Scores may be presented as an IQ (intelligence
quotient), a mental age, or on a scale.
IQ scores have been shown to be
associated with such factors as morbidity
and mortality, parental social status, and
to a substantial degree, parental IQ.

These scores are derived after testing 4


core areas of intelligence
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1.

Is to As Is to ?

A B C D E
2.

What comes next in the above sequence ?

A B C D E
3. ALAN beats tom at tennis but loses to
HAZEL. KATHY usually wins against TOM,
sometimes against ALAN, but never against
HAZEL. Who is the weakest player?

A. ALAN
B. TOM
C. HAZEL
D. KATHY
4. What number should replace the
question mark?

A. 63:396
B. 42:264
C. 81: ?

Reverse the digits and add the digits to obtain the


number in between
81- 1_8(reversing the numbers), 1+8= 9. Hence
the number is 198.
5. Which three letter word should be placed
behind each of the following to form four or
five letter words?

SC_ant
__
ME_ ant
__
P_ant
__
W_ant
__
R_ant
__

The three letter word is ANT


6. Choose the word most nearly opposite in
meaning to---pragmatic

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7. Find the next letter in the series

N --
            B          E          H         K        
   

A. L
B. M
C. N
D. O
8. Find the next number in the series

35 33 29 23 15...............

A. 13
B. 9
C. 11
D. 5

The difference increases by 2 each time.


Step 1
Give yourself the best education you can.

While genes answer for about 80 percent of your intelligence,


education plays the next biggest role. Develop hobbies like
reading and solving crossword puzzles, logic problems and jigsaw
puzzles. Make it a priority to learn at least one new thing every
day.
Step 2
Eat like a smart person.

A balanced diet helps stabilize your brain chemistry, which in turn


makes you think more efficiently. Certain foods stand out as having
the most powerful brain-boosting effects: fish, which increases the
speed of your brain waves, and caffeine, which speeds up your
synapses and can improve your short-term memory.
Step 3
Get plenty of quality sleep.

Studies have shown that your brain remains very active while you
sleep, processing short-term memories and filing them away into
long-term storage, as well as performing other routine maintenance.
Aim for seven to eight hours of sleep every night to give your brain
the time it needs to stay organized.
Step 4
Limit your consumption of alcohol and other intoxicants.

The buzz you feel from drinking alcohol is actually the result of
dying brain cells, which never grow back.
Step 5
Listen to classical music.

Numerous studies have shown that the brain's spatial IQ improves for
10 to 15 minutes after listening to classical music, which generally
resembles brain waves in rhythm and timing. listening to classical
music probably won't make you any less intelligent, but it also may
not have long-term effects on your IQ
THANK
YOU!!!

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