Child with Poor Ability

Children are classified as having poor ability when their IQ falls between 80 and 90. They constitute approximately 15% to 25% of the school population.

Special schools or schools for the intellectually restrained are not provided for them because experience has taught that to a reasonable degree most enter an ordinary school. In addition, it seems that the qualifications they acquire in an ordinary school are of greater value than what is otherwise the case.

However, poor ability inevitably leads to learning problems mainly because of a slow learning tempo and an inadequate ability to think which is characterized by poor abstraction regarding overall structuring, classifying, ordering, synthesizing, schematizing, etc.