Intelligence Tests

On the IQ test, I had a "higher average" score of 112. On reporting my results, I will classify my strongest areas as the subjects with scores that had the highest difference above the percentile and my worst areas as the subjects with the lowest difference above the percentile. My strongest areas were general knowledge and verbal. Visualization was my worst score, the only subject that I scored below the percentile. Classification was my second worst subject area.
These results surprised me a bit because in other standardized tests, my worst subject has always been verbal. On the SAT's and ACT's, it was always the verbal sections that gave me problems. I think the reason for my high scores on this test were due to the fact that this test was very basic It was testing whether I understood the relationship between two words, not if I knew the word itself. In the other standardized tests, my biggest problem was that half the time I didn't know what the words meant, much less what their relationship was with another word that I didn't know. Also with the word scrabbles, I found myself dreading when they came up because they are hard for me to figure out.
This test was very short. It didn't really collect very much data for each area it tested and the results were a little hard to interpret. One could score very well in a subject area, but still be under the average percentile. My main concern though was in the number of questions. They gave results for nine different categories and there were only 30 questions, meaning there were about 3-4 questions that they gave you for each category and posted results as if those three questions could determine your intelligence in that category.
In the multiple intelligence test, my highest scoring area (and no surprise to anyone) was the kinaesthetic, with linguistic and logical close seconds. My lowest areas were musical and naturalistic with the other categories falling some where in between.
Again, the linguistic surprised me. Maybe this is a recent phenomenon or maybe I have conditioned myself to be good (and like) word problems because they always gave me such grief in younger years. I was sad that the music was so low because I do like music and learn through it. My issue is that I have always been so busy with sports that I never had time to develop or explore any musical talent that I may (or may not) have.
The major flaw I see with this test is that it is subjective. They are asking you to rate yourself and sometimes that judgment may not be accurate. For example, they asked if you remembered music patterns easily. Well, compared to what? I don't really know how well the rest of the world remembers music patterns and how I compare to them. True I have a general idea, but that may not be accurate. I liked the volume of questions, there could have been more to get more thorough results, but I thought it was a enough to get a general idea of where you fall. It showed tendencies.
I would not use an IQ test with children. There are too many factors that could sway the results. For example, they don't speak the language well, they don't have much experience with patterns, they are distracted by the pressure of the test, etc. I don't even know if I would use a multiple intelligences test with children. I would use it for my own observations and try to see tendencies, like what children like which activities better, but I don't like the idea of kids putting themselves into categories. If they take the test and it shows they are an intrapersonal learner, then they will always think that and not try to branch out on their interpersonal abilities. Like I mentioned about my verbal scores on both tests. I think this is something that has developed in recent years because it was not my strength as a teenager and I never enjoyed verbal activities in school.