IQ Test

Introduction:
 

You are about to take a carefully constructed test designed to measure your intelligence. This test can evaluate IQs between 64 and 176 – it was normed on an international sample of 487 test takers aged 12 to 73.

The test will measure your overall IQ as well as your spatial, verbal, numerical, and logical skills.

Take the test only when you are in a fresh state of mind. Take the test alone. Be sure that your testing conditions include a quiet and comfortable work area, a pen or pencil, and some scratch paper to record your answers (it may also help you solve some of the problems).

At the end of the test, you will find the answers to all the questions. Make sure you do not look at the answers before taking the test!

You may finally decide to score the test yourself (a rough scoring table with IQ estimations is provided at the end) or you may decide to contact me if you desire a more scientific evaluation of your own intelligence.

You are now ready to begin the test.

Instructions:

1. You have 40 minutes to answer the 40 questions. Do not exceed the time limit.

2. Write and keep your answers on a physical or electronic document of your own.

3. Answer as many questions as you can. There is no penalty for guessing: right answers are scored +1 and wrong answers are scored 0.

4. There is always one and only one answer per question.

IQ Test:

1- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

2- Complete the following analogy:

Daughter is to father as niece is to:

A) cousin    

B) mother    

C) uncle    

D) nephew    

E) sister

3- Insert the missing number:

1   6   11   ?   21   26

A) 6

B) 15

C) 16

D) 17

E) 36

4- Paul is older than Brandon and Fernando is younger than Paul.

Which of the following statements is most accurate?

A) Fernando is older than Brandon.

B) Fernando is younger than Brandon.

C) Fernando is as old as Brandon.

D) It is impossible to tell whether Fernando or Brandon is older.

5- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

6- Choose the word that means the opposite of SYMMETRY:

A) imbalance   

B) exclusion    

C) immensity    

D) isolation   

E) reliability

7- Tess received both the 14th highest and the 14th lowest mark in her class. How many students are in her class?

A) 7  

B) 27  

C) 28  

D) 29  

E) 41

8- If all blue wombats are skates and no skates are nymphs, then no nymphs are blue wombats.

This statement is:

A) True

B) False

C) Neither

9- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

10- Find the meaning of the following sentence:

It is absurd to question that it is false to disagree that this flower is not white.

A) This flower is white         

B) This flower is not white               

C) This flower is black          

D) It is impossible to tell

11- Insert the missing number:

40    20    ?     9    7

A) 9

B) 10

C) 18

D) 21

E) 30

12- If some skinks are plastrons and all turtles are plastrons, then some skinks are definitely turtles.

This statement is:

A) True

B) False         

C) Neither      

13- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

14- “A stream cannot rise higher than its source” means:

A) Streams of consciousness must come from high sources.

B) You decline after reaching your highest level.

C) The stream of knowledge is highly resourceful.

D) Your potential achievement is limited by your background.

E) Nothing, this is just poetic license.

15- The population of a bacteria culture doubles every 2 minutes. Approximately how many minutes will it take for the population to grow from 1,000 to 500,000 bacteria?

A) 10

B) 12

C) 14

D) 16

E) 18

16- Ferpies move slower than worgs and ferpies are smaller than sprikles. Ferpies move faster than sprikles and ferpies are larger than worgs. Therefore:

A) Ferpies move the fastest and are the largest of the three animals.

B) Sprikles move faster than worgs.

C) Sprikles are smaller than worgs.

D) Worgs move the fastest and are the largest of the three animals.

E) Worgs move the fastest and are the smallest of the three animals.

17- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

18- Find the odd man out in these anagrams:

A) LOBLATOF

B) CEKTIRC

C) TCHAMOS          

D) SNINET

19- Insert the missing number:

3    6    9     ?    24     39

A) 15

B) 16

C) 17

D) 18

E) 19

20- All tigers are hairy.

Some tigers are not humorless.

Hairy creatures are gladly sarcastic.

Which statement contradicts what was said?

A) Some sarcastic creatures are humorless.

B) No hairy animal is humorless.

C) Sarcastic and hairy animals have no humor.

D) Without humor, no sarcastic animal is hairy.

21- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

22- The recher blopped raply betar the kretly zool. Then the recher _________ glaxly up the kneek.

Which word belongs in the space?

A) blopped

B) raply

C) betar                     

D) zool           

E) kretly

23- John, Cat, Vince, and Phil bought together a basket of 154 oranges. John received 12 more oranges than Cat, 14 more than Vince, and 28 more than Phil.

How many oranges did John receive ?

A) 26  

B) 52  

C) 62  

D) 73  

E) 104

24- Innocent people are without malice.

Cunning involves malice.

Irresponsible people are innocent.

Which statement contradicts what was said?

A) Several irresponsible people are without malice.

B) Some irresponsible people can be cunning.

C) Some innocent people are not cunning.

D) One can be cunning without being innocent.

25- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

26- Complete the following analogy:

Top is to apex as bottom is to:

A) hilt

B) summit      

C) zenith        

D) hyperbola             

E) nadir

27- Insert the missing number:

327  (410)  532

431  (  ?  )  673

A) 81

B) 121

C) 484

D) 674

E) 969

28- Tripples are reptiles if and only if bolars are birds.

If the above statement is true, which conclusion is valid?

A) Tripples are reptiles.

B) Tripples are not reptiles.

C) Bolars are birds.

D) If bolars are birds then triples are reptiles.

E) If tripples are birds then bolars are reptiles.

29- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

30- Find the meaning of the following sentence:

“Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.” (La Rochefoucauld)

A) Propriety concerns can in many cases justify some lies.

B) Our virtues are often nothing but disguised vices.

C) Hypocrisy is one of those vices that best makes one appreciate virtue.

D) The homage of the hypocrite makes vice even more odious to the virtuous man.

E) The deceiver who copies the man of virtue hence recognizes the primacy of moral values.

31- In a certain pond, 50 fish were caught, tagged, and returned to the pond. A few days later, 50 fish were caught again, of which 2 were found to have been tagged. If the percent of tagged fish in the second catch approximates the percent of tagged fish in the pond, what is the approximate number of fish in the pond?    

A) 400

B) 625

C) 1,250

D) 2,500

E) 10,000

32- All curious beings are greedy.

All friendly dogs are teased.

Some friendly dogs are curious.

Which statement contradicts what was said?

A) Some curious dogs are friendly.

B) Some greedy dogs are not teased.

C) Some friendly dogs are greedy.

D) No greedy dog is ever teased.

33- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

34- Choose the two words that best complete the following sentence:

Chinese pleasure gardens were not essentially intended to look ----; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ---- of natural beauty and human glory.

A) cheerful. .transitoriness    

B) beautiful. .immutability

C) colorful. .abstractness

D) luxuriant. .simplicity

E) conventional. .wildness

35- Insert the missing number:

27	31			58	54
30	28			60	56
		26	26
		?	33

A) 26

B) 27

C) 28

D) 29

E) 30

36- Either the Hardy-Weinberg law holds or acetone dissolves protein. The Hardy-Weinberg law does not hold and acetone dissolves protein.

If the above statement is true, which conclusion is valid?

A) The Hardy-Weinberg law holds if and only if acetone dissolves protein.

B) The Hardy-Weinberg law holds and acetone dissolves protein.

C) The Hardy-Weinberg law holds.

D) If acetone dissolves protein then the Hardy-Weinberg law holds.

E) The Hardy-Weinberg law does not hold.

37- Select the correct figure which completes the pattern:

 

38- Choose the word that means the opposite of this anagram: BALEPPAL

A) retroactive            

B) decorative 

C) imperturbable       

D) not tangible

E) not trustworthy

39- Insert the missing number:

8   72   46   ?   612

A) 256

B) 521

C) 611

D) 1024

E) 1111

40- Campbell is a butcher who heads the round table of the street shopkeepers.

There is also a baker, a grocer, and a hairdresser.

Campbell sits to the left of Datar.

Gallani sits to the right of the grocer.

Price is not the baker and sits in front of Datar.

What is Gallani’s job?

A) butcher

B) baker

C) grocer

D) hairdresser

E) It is impossible to tell

Answers:

1- E

2- C

3- B

4- D

5- D

6- A

7- B

8- A

9- C

10- B

11- C

12- B

13- F

14- D

15- E

16- E

17- A

18- C

19- A

20- C

21- C

22- A

23- B

24- B

25- D

26- E

27- C

28- D

29- D

30- E

31- C

32- D

33- B

34- A

35- B

36- E

37- A

38- D

39- B

40- B

Scoring:

Count up the number of questions you answered correctly. Find that number in the table below:

Number correct	IQ level
0 – 10	Below average
11 – 20	Above average
21– 30	Superior
31 – 40	Very superior

If you desire a more scientific evaluation of your intelligence, email me your answers. You will receive in return a precise score – between 64 and 176 – together with a detailed profile of your mental functioning (in terms of global IQ, spatial, verbal, numerical, and logical skills).

There is a processing fee of around $10 for scoring (I do not make any profit on test scoring; it just covers my research operating costs). Anyway, always contact me before sending me your answers because I need to check several things before scoring and entering anonymously the results in my database.

You may contact me (Phil – the author) by clicking on the profile link (above right) or by typing in the following email address: