Intellectual Ability

• Quick to master new concepts
• Thinks quickly
• Recalls facts and concepts easily
• May use advanced vocabulary
• Has a large knowledge base
• Sees patterns & relationships
• Makes connections
• Able to generalize, propose big ideas
• Thinks logically
• Reasons critically
• Judges/challenges critically
• Can ask probing questions
• Prefers accurate and valid solutions
• Formulates and supports ideas with evidence
• Avid reader or writer

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• Be easily bored
• Dominate discussion
• Uses oral skills to manipulate way out of difficult tasks or negative behaviour
• Difficulty in accepting what is seen as illogical
• Be accused of over-intellectualizing or over-analyzing things or people
• Resistant to repetition
• May lack tact
• May be critical of teachers
• May come across as arrogant
• May take the class on a tangent that the teacher does not want
• May struggle with reading social cues.