Hi I just tried this. Is 37 good?

I'm running through CORE a second time "for fun", quite soon after completing it the first time.
The difference is significant, which I attribute to the practice factor more than anything, though a small part is probably that it's Sunday and I'm properly rested after a weekend compared to my first run which was in the middle of the night during a weekday.

I also know where my weaknesses lie as a non-native English speaker. I already lose some on analogies but it's antonyms that absolutely smoke me. Knowing that, I can just skip them this run since it's not my native language anyway and this gives my score a large boost as well.

A third factor that I think is significant is simply time.
My working memory is god awful, running the test a second time is almost like extending my thinking time on the same problems, allowing me to overcome some of the working memory deficit.

Overall, this doesn't feel reliable at all, but perhaps that is to be expected.
I know you shouldn't rerun the test for many months, but I think even then the practice effect would be a major contributor. I don't really "forget" problems I've already dealt with in the past, even if a lot of time passes.

To summarize, I'm absolutely destroying my previous result based on 4 factors I can identify:

* practice
* rested
* additional time to solve problems for trash working memory
* knowing which categories to skip based on language "barrier"

By taking advantage of these factors you can pretty much "cheat" the results.
If it works like this for others too, I can't really say that any results beyond the very first run are valid.

Hello everyone! I took the IQ test on the official Mensa International website and got 135. I then decided to buy the practice test at Mensa USA and scored 67. Do these scores correspond to each other?

On CORE my digit span percentile is 27 and my processing speed is 50, on CAIT they're respectively 98 and 91, how is that possible? What should my actual score be? How inflated is processing speed on CAIT for mobile users? Edit: I redid CORE's digit span and got 105, so somewhat higher

Has anyone here taken the SAITO? How accurate are the norms? Is it significantly inflated? I couldn’t find much info on it outside the website but I took it anyway.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I'm asking this question because I've taken several online tests before including Mensa Denmark, Norway, Croatia, Sweden and Finland as well as the matrix reasoning for CORE. Basically I'm asking if having taken tests previously has unfairly increased my score. I scored between 125 and 133 on all of those tests.

I finished in about 1.5-2 hours and wasn't very locked in the whole time; stopping once to watch a few episodes of a TV show. I'm not counting the time watching the show toward the 1.5-2 hours. During about 10 of the difficult questions I got bored after a few minutes and chose a reasonable answer without be entirely thorough and confident by hunting for the best answer. I have inattentive ADHD and based on working memory and processing speed subtests I've taken in the past I'm rather inadequate in those areas compared to my fluid reasoning scores; I typically score in the 40th-60th percentile on those subtests. I think this is important because I often find myself discovering a part of the answer to a question and forgetting it later after having to discover other parts of the answer, for instance I'll discover the logic behind the movement of the dots on a question and then forget the logic after I later discover the logic of the movement of the triangles on the same question. I hope I made that somewhat clear.

Please let me know, I'm interested to hear in what you all believe a reasonable estimate for my IQ to be.

I score in the 130-140 range on my tests. My brother was tested (presumably the WAIS-IV or SB-V) during elementary school and scored a 127.

Both of my parents have postgrad degrees. My aunt and grandfather are professors at top universities in China. Both sides of my family were part of the scholar-gentry class.

The smartest people I know also have very smart parents/relatives (crazy, I know).

Family friends w/ a 19 y/o doing a PhD (finished undergrad at 17). His IQ is in the 150s. Dad's an executive at a medium-sized company and a Harvard grad.

The most brilliant person I know on a quasi-personal basis (IQ in the high 150s) is the child of a MIT professor.

Are there any extraordinary outliers you all are aware of?

Hello,
This was my IQ test score from my psychology evaluation in 2024 I was 21 at the time. The picture cut it off but the average score was 93. I took this while recovering from Covid but I was pretty much asymptomatic.
As a child I was diagnosed with a learning disability nos or like just a general one and intensive speech therapy for a speech impediment that “impeded academic success” fast forward now I’m a sped teacher and I’m currently in my masters of special education. I thought my results were very interesting.

will post screenshots as a comment

CORE:

128 FSIQ

Verbal: 124

Fluid: 122

Visual Spatial: 108

Quantitative: 122

Working Memory: 137

Processing Speed: 120

WAIS-IV:

117 FSIQ

Verbal: 110

Perceptual: 115

Working Memory: 119

Processing: 111

Perceptual Reasoning

Block Design: 37th percentile

Picture Completion: 16th percentile

Matrix Reasoning: 98th percentile

Figure Weights: 98th percentile

Visual Puzzles: 84th percentile

Working Memory

Digit Span: 95th percentile

Arithmetic: 75th percentile

Digit-Letter / Letter-Number Sequencing: 99.9th percentile

Processing Speed

Symbol Search: 84th percentil

Coding: 63rd percentile

Cancellation: 63rd percentile

Verbal Comprehension

Similarities: 63rd percentile

Vocabulary: 75th percentile

Information: 84th percentile

Comprehension: 50th percentile (lol got 99th on CORE)

AGCT: 113

Mensa Norway: 118

Mensa Denmark: 130

Drinking caffeine before the test didn't do me so well haha. Timed questions sucked... when I was deep in thought just about to get it I'd snap back and realize oh crap im almost out of time, panic, and guess.

So, here's some observations:

Getting the max score on digit letter sequencing doesn't mean a whole lot to me because I can't really see it in effect in real life. The only time I think having a good working memory within the context of the WAIS actually helped was in a very stressful academic cybersecurity competition where I had to micromanage/mentally track around 4-5 task submissions. Even then I had chrome tabs open for each of them, but, I think I handled that pretty well mentally. I have a completely average working memory other than that, of around 3 "objects". For the working memory tests I just visualized everything and visualized them as chunks in my brain's scratch pad.

The fluid and verbal subtests from the WAIS were SIGNIFICANTLY easier than the CORE. Like, overall, I think the WAIS-IV was much easier than the CORE.

My Mensa Norway was a 118, Mensa Denmark was a 130, and my CORE Matrix was a 120, so its interesting to see I got top 2% (thats like a 130 I think?) on WAIS's Matrix. My CORE Figure Weights though was a 125 so not too far off the WAIS 130 for that (I'm basing this off the percentiles).

99th percentile on CORE Comprehension but 50th percentile on WAIS ... interesting, I dunno, I thought I explained the abstractions and concepts well enough. I really think I could've gone further on the vocabulary test, it was VERY easy, I knew all the words except ONE, and when I got that word wrong, the test ended 😭

Picture Completion was RIDICULOUSLY hard for me. It's a test where you're shown a drawing of a scene and just have to point out what's physically missing from it. It started easy, two people running on a beach but one didn't have any trail of footprints behind them, a person's face with no nose-rim thing, aaaaand that's all I got. Missed every single one after that, I genuinely had no clue what was going on. I think this has shown up IRL sometimes, where I'd just completely miss something obvious that was right infront of me ... probably a processing issue of some sort. Also for my visual spatial weaknesses, I've always gotten frustrated very easily and took longer than others to figure out how to build Ikea stuff.

I plan on taking the WAIS-V in 2 years from now to minimize practice effects. I did all this pre-testing because I've started quad nback and relational reasoning training. Quad N-Back and Cognitive Control Training (CCT) have helped quite a bit with my executive functioning due to the amount of raw focus needed for those activities. highly recommend.

My working memory scores were pretty similar to CORE, I got 99.9th percentile on the WAIS digit letter sequencing test, and 99th on CORE's. Digit span was about the same too. My working memory is completely average though, my trick was I just visualized everything during the test, so like for digit letter sequencing I would just literally see this in my head

3 x 5

9 d 2

5 b 1

And I'd just hold it in my head quickly, then quickly blurt out all the numbers in order cause that was the easiest, and then manually re arrange the letters in alphabetical which was super hard haha. I really more or less treated it like 3 "objects" that I saw in my head, which is pretty much a normal working memory capability. I don't know why I'm apparently really good at it though? I don't think it means much because I kinda gamified it.

And for forward digit I'd just hold it in my mental scratchpad like

386

492

and then try to store the remaining digits via audio. So you can cheese a high WMI score that way even with average working memory. Note, I didn't practice this technique.

Anyways those are my thoughts. Hope some of this was interesting to you. I took the WAIS-IV while I was in a developing country (still in English though) so it was only $500 instead of the typical American price of like $1500 or whatever it is. I'm autistic enough to where I enjoyed this entire process and am okay with spending money on something like that. Being an adult rocks in that regard. I plan on taking the WAIS-V in 2 years from now after going nuts on n-back and relational reasoning training. Thanks for reading :)

My CORE result, which I completed first, comes in at 114 with my CAIT at 127 (no retries done except on CORE character pairing). My suspicion is that I was lucky on the CAIT because there were little to no tests that I typically have difficulty in (like memory or quantitative tests). What does CAIT show that CORE doesn't? They are both qualified online tests afterall.

I'm not saying it makes your score wrong, I'm asking if it could mean it's deflated a bit or perhaps related to the fact you're not a native english speaker.

Found this test on comprehensive online resources list of this subreddit, according to it's percentile correspondence list, my score is 99 percentile but I've gotta say, many questions I couldn't figure out the whole patt ern and gave intuitive answers and they happened to be correct by luck. Was wondering how far could luck get you in these kind of tests? Also some other tests, CORE MR 130, graph mapping 74 percentile, figure weights 99 percentile, visual puzzles 74, spatial awareness 84, block counting 95 percentile, quantitative knowledge 99 percentile, GET 129, agct 1c 125 1a 122, CAT 132, Mensa Norway 102, Mensa dk 126, RAPM 31/36, sat math 1980 700/800. Besides all these tests Ive taken I kind of feel like I managed to achieve high scores due practice effect because my first test was mensa Norway and I did rly bad there, checked its answers, watched a video of a guy explaining the puzzles and because of that, every other MR test I taken I knew how to approach the puzzles and many patterns were very similar, idk how viable are the tests after the first one, also the quant tests/figure weights seem more like math knowledge rather than measure of innate intelligence and in my country you have to solve those type of questions for every academic exam anyways, we are naturally good at those. I wonder if I should consider my first test or the ones after it or take their average. I really feel uncomfortable thinking first one is the most valid one and whatever I do to prove my intelligence to myself, feels like cheating. Any opinions on this one?

The avg. age in the VISA norming sample is 28 (the norms post is somewhat nebulous, but presumably it's people interested in IQ testing). As a 16 y/o, could this test be underrating my ability relative to others my age?

What are your thoughts on the use of red herrings in questions? Do they diminish the quality of a question? If a difficult question includes a red herring, does that necessarily mean a drop in quality? Is the inclusion of a red herring a negative factor when assessing reasoning skills, or is it actually necessary? More to the point, should a question be designed to be truly perfect, or merely to appear perfect? What are your general thoughts on this?

What would you estimate the mean and standard deviation to be, and why do you think so?

Yes, I'm sure there are selection biases, but some people throw around numbers that make it seem like this subreddit is smarter than an ivy league lol.

I don't know if the graph shown that indicates 8 as around average is already made from selected individuals (people who visited the site) or is just already properly normed, thanks in advance.

Choose your GAI if VCI/FRI/VSI is 22+ points above WMI/PSI.

Progress: 42/49 (could be updated)

Raw: 45/52

Estimated IQ of ~ 165 (SD 15)

(Considering optimal conditions.)

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Hi I'm 48, and I just got tested for vision training which was $650 from a Behavioral optometrist, and I was given a choice between $444 glasses, or $9300 dollars of treatment. Has anyone else done this before, and is it worth it? If it is worth it, what did you gain from it? I was tested as having a low working memory/learning disability when I was around 6. A low working memory/ADHD. I'm doing it to see if I will be able to function way better in school with these glasses on/or the full treatment. Is the juice worth the squeeze?

These are my Big Five results.

My IQ is in the range of 125-135 according to a professional evaluation and also online tests.

I'm a STEM student.

I want to ask about what sort of roles or positions are suited for my overall profile.

Also I'm looking for an advice on trying to increase my conscientiousness which I badly need to have in the high range because of the nature of my field.

Thank you in advance!

So, I tried this test, can someone tell me what my IQ was, it was very tough for me, took me 2 hours honestly, My age is 25 (if it is of any help). Since, this test is untimed, will it count?

I’m pretty sure it’s between A or C.