I thought that the tests were very interesting, looking back on it.
One test involved looking at a series of pictures and identifying what was missing. For example, one was a drawing of a woman walking down a country road on a sunny day. You know it's a sunny day because the trees have shadows, but her shadow is missing. Another showed two people walking on the beach and there's only one set of footprints.
There was a basic knowledge section with questions on a variety of topics, ranging from the boiling point of water to geography to "why do towns require a license to get married?" and "why do we pay taxes?"
There was a pattern recognition test and another cool pattern test involving blocks. Some sides of blocks/cubes were red, some were white and some were divided into two trianges with one red and one white. I had to manipulate the blocks to complete pictures of patterns and the pictures became increasingly complex as the test progressed. My son has a game like this, only it has different shapes instead of cubes.
There was a verbal test that had a series of small drawings next to three related words. I had to write a sentence pertaining to the picture and including the words. Another test involved reading the first and third sentences of a paragraph and then writing a sentence to go in between. There was another verbal test with different instructions for each item.
There were two computerized tests: one involved seeing a series of letters on the screen and clicking upon seeing every letter except X; the other was a pattern recognition test.
One test involved the dr. reading a series of words, i.e., truck, giraffe, onion, subway, cabbage, spinach, bookcase, boat, cow, probably a total of 15 or 20 words. When he was finished I had to recite back all I could remember. I couldn't remember many. We did this same exercise 5 times and each time I remembered a few more but would reach a point after a few seconds that my memory was empty. This was test for free recall, with which I have a lot of difficulty. He then read a new list and we went thorough that one a couple of times. Then back to the original. Then I had over an hour break to see my C and I came back to finish my testing. He asked me to recall as many as I could from the first list. I recalled quite a few I think but still missed at least 6 or 8 I think. Then he read me a series of two words and asked me to identify which word belonged to the original list. I very easily knew exactly which words belonged. This is cued recall, which I am able to do. I also had an easier time recalling words when he asked me to name the animals in the list or the furniture.
I am very glad I did this, and I would encourage anyone who thinks they might have ADD to be tested. My insurance covered it.
