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I always rush tests as i find them boring so i never achieve my true score.
To bring back the original question - or something close to it. How does the point system work??? For instance 100 is "normalized" but what is the difference between a 109 and 129? Or even a 135 and 139? How far of a gap do the numbers represent?
British Mensa uses two main tests to identify people's IQ scores, the Cattell III B and the Cattell Culture Fair III A.A score which puts you in the top two per cent of the population on either of these papers would qualify you for membership of Mensa.An adult can only get a maximum IQ of 161 on the Cattell III B test.As different IQ tests were developed, each was given its own scoring system. Therefore, an IQ of 150 is a meaningless claim unless you know the actual test which was used. In order to compare one IQ test against another, the scores are converted to 'percentiles', i.e. where a person's score falls in comparison to the rest of the population by percentage. Mensa offers membership to anyone whose IQ score places them within the top two per cent of the population, no matter which approved test was used.A top 2% mark in any of these frequently used tests below qualifies you for entry to Mensa. The minimum test mark to get into Mensa is:Cattell III B - 148Culture Fair - 132Ravens Advanced Matrices - 135Ravens Standard Matrices - 131Wechsler Scales - 132The BBC Test The Nation IQ quiz is not a recognised IQ test and so Mensa is unable to accept people for membership on the basis of their Test The Nation scores. However, achievement of a score of 120 or more in this IQ quiz would suggest you might like to have a go at a full Mensa IQ test.
I've done the test but unfortunately I couldn't understand some questions, for examples:
1.NAMYERG is the anagram of what? (I wrote "city" but don't know)
2.A cinic knows the price of everything and the________of nothing (I put "emotion" but maybe it was "value"?)
3.The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never_____ (I put "simple")
Secondly they found that, unless something really odd happened in a child's schooling, they tended to maintain the same IQ throughout school. The idea of helping those schoolchildren who are falling behind makes sense (though I don't know how well it worked); the use of IQ in adults is strange.
If you rely on that staying the same through into adulthood (which is a dodgy assumption) then you can "measure" the IQ of adults by asking lots of people lots os questions, calling anyone who gets the average number right an IQ of 100 and sorting the rest of the population by how far above or below the average number of right answers they got, compared to the population as a whole.As far as I can tell this is pointless.
paul, why the apostrophe? Nothing's been missed out and it's nothing's possessive.
"a simple clue to which apostrophe would be helpful. "The one just before the s here"it's easy, there are no "'s in IQ"