Your intelligence quotient (iq) does not directly measure how smart you are. It measures the plasticity of your brain and how capable you are of learning. Thus indirectly how smart you CAN be.

IQ is neither objective nor static.

You can certainly increase your IQ(which is determined by test results for reasoning and problem solving) by studying and practicing those skills.

Additionally, numerous studies have shown that the modern IQ test heavily skews towards "western" and wealthy individuals with education provided within a Prussian style school system(like most western countries provide).

Your question is asked under a false premise.

I'd also like to add that you can raise it by using your brain more, i.e., reading, problem solving (maths,ect ), and learning new things .

In theory, an IQ test is supposed to measure your "potential for learning". The idea is to separate knowledge from the ability to learn something/problem solve, so that ignorance doesn't change the results. In reality this is can't be done perfectly and you can absolutely get better results on an IQ test by practicing. But this means that people who already have gained some of the same skills that would be honed by practicing for the IQ test will score better than someone who has not gained those skills.

So IQ tests are intended to measure something that you shouldn't be able to change, but fail to do so perfectly, and so it is NOT always the same. But the true value of the thing that IQ is a proxy for shouldn't be able to be changed.

Reading and solving problems can increase a person's IQ to a certain degree.

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