tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 125 - Practical intelligence lends a hand

Thực hành giải IELTS Academic Reading Sample 125 - Practical intelligence lends a hand giúp các bạn củng cố lại kiến thức và thử sức mình trước kỳ thi. Hi vọng luyện tập với nội dung đề thi sẽ giúp các bạn đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi sắp tới. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Practical intelligence lends a hand Dr Rajendra Persaud explains how practical intelligence is linked to success. This year record numbers of high school students obtainedtop grades in their final exams yet employers complain that young people still lack the basic skills to succeed at work. The only explanation offered is that exams must be getting easier. But the real answer could lie in a study just published by Professor Robert Sternberg an eminent psychologist at Yale University in the USA and the world s leading expert on intelligence. His research reveals the existence of a totally new variety practical intelligence. Professor Sternberg s astonishing finding is that practical intelligence which predicts success in real life has an inverse relationship with academic intelligence. In other words the more practically intelligent you are the less likely you are to succeed at school or university. Similarly the more paper qualifications you hold and the higher your grades the less able you are to cope with problems of everyday life and the lower your score in practical intelligence. Many people who are clearly successful in their place of work do badly in standard 10 academic intelligence tests. Entrepreneurs and those who have built large businesses from scratch are frequently discovered to be high school or college drop-outs. 10 as a concept is more than 100 years old. It was supposed to explain why some people excelled at a wide variety of intellectual tasks. But IQ ran into trouble when it became apparent that some high scorers failed to achieve in real life what was predicted by their tests. Emotional intelligence EQ which emerged a decade ago was supposed to explain this deficit. It suggested that to succeed in real life people needed both emotional as well as intellectual skills. EO includes the abilities to motivate yourself and persist in the face of .