The Multiple Intelligence test is designed to find out a person's learning profile based on his scores in eight different areas: kinaesthetic, linguistic, logical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, visual/spatial and naturalistic. Based on the Multiple Intelligence test, I am more of a musical and intrapersonal person.
In my opinion, the Multiple Intelligence test is not always accurate about someone's personality, as it only focuses on more general areas. However, it can give a general view of a person's learning style and profile. The Multiple Intelligence test can be very useful in the future as it allows teachers to understand the way students learn and facilitate their learning better.
Just one test is not sufficient to deduce a person's learning profile for his entire lifetime. As human beings, our mindset and characteristics may change as we progress on in life. As a result, the Multiple Intelligence test caters to different age groups and is not just taken once. What about the questions in the Multiple Intelligence test? Well, after taking the test, I find that some of them can be subjective or vague. However, questions are just words that cannot change themselves. Therefore, this does not mean that the Multiple Intelligence test is unreliable. The Multiple Intelligence test is used worldwide, not only in Singapore. As different people of different nationalities in different situations are asked the same questions, they will naturally have differing opinions about how the questions are phrased.
The eight areas in the Multiple Intelligence test can tell us a lot about a person, as they encompass not only our characteristics, but also our relationship with the surroundings. Although using scores to determine a person's learning profile may seem inaccurate as numbers cannot fully describe a person, it is only used as an efficient way to compare a person's learning profile with another person's. If words are used to describe a person in the Multiple Intelligence test, that beats the purpose of having eight different areas as it is not feasible to gauge how good one is at a certain area based on a simple description.
The Multiple Intelligence test should not be used by students as a limit to their abilities. For example, if you are a linguistic and logical person, you may think that you will not excel in the other different areas. I think that this is not true. As students, we should strive to learn and improve. It is natural for someone to have a low score in one of the areas, as we are not perfect. The Multiple Intelligence test is more suited for teachers to understand how their students learn.
I find that it is interesting to learn more about my personality through the Multiple Intelligence test, and I believe that it will prove to be a very useful test in the future.
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