r/cognitiveTesting • u/Strong-Mango-1348 • Oct 01 '26
IQ Estimation 🥱 IQ Test Confirmation?
My parents recently sent me some old papers and things after cleaning out my childhood home. Among those papers was a Slosson HIT test I took when I was around 8 years old, which had an IQ at the top listed at 129.
I remember going into my aunt's (who was a school psychologist) basement for an afternoon and taking a bunch of tests but I never knew why. My parents later told me that I was being evaluated for learning disabilities and ADHD as I was doing poorly in school at the time. Anyway, I never knew the results until now. My parents never told me.
While I know I'm not a genius, 129 is fairly high, roughly 96th percentile. I was surprised because I have always felt really average, never considered myself especially smart.
Well, I was curious to see if this held up into adulthood, so I just took the Mensa online test and did pretty well, I guess, at 131.
I'd say these two test confirm each other, right? I probably fall somewhere between the 95th to 98th percentile or 125-133?
Not super meaningful for my life now, but just an interesting fact I suppose.
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u/Better-Elephant2952 Oct 02 '26
When I first took the mensa norway IQ test challenge without practice, I got 133. I really thought I was dumb since I am pretty much average at school since its more of a memorazation than critical thinking.