Psychometric Test

What is an IQ Score?

Originally, IQ, or Intelligence Quotient, was used to detect persons of lower intelligence, and to detect children of lower intelligence in order to place them in special education programs.

The first IQ tests were designed to compare a child’s intelligence to what his or her intelligence “should be” as compared to the child’s age. If the child was significantly “smarter” than a “normal” child of his or her age, the child was given a higher score, and if the child scored lower than expected for a child of his or her age, the child was given a lower IQ score.

Today, IQ testing is used not primarily for children, but for adults. So, we attempt to write tests that will determine an adult’s true mental potential, unbiased by culture, and compare scores to the scores of other adults who have taken the same test. We compare an adult’s objective results to the objective results of other adults, and determine how intelligent each test taker is compared to all other test takers, instead of comparing test takers to an arbitrary age related standard.

Our test measures 13 mental abilities, namely:

1. Visual
2. Vocabulary
3. Spatial
4. Arithmetic
5. Logical
6. General Knowledge
7. Spelling
8. Rote Utilization
9. Intuition
10. Short Term Memory
11. Geometric
12. Algebraic
13. Computational Speed

Analyzing A Problem
Taking the test allows the computer to determine 13 individual IQ scores for different mental abilities. Each problem of the test has sub-problems, and this requires you to use many mental skills. These sub-problems are of various levels of challenge and require a variety of abilities with some of these mental abilities being strongly challenged. If any sub-problem cannot be handled, an incorrect analysis will result.
All the problems of the test have been analyzed to determine the mental skills that are required to be used and how strongly those skills are challenged.

A Simple Analysis of a Statement

Consider this statement:
“Two chickens and four cats have a total of twenty two legs.”
You must utilize many skills to determine if this is a true or false statement. In part, they are:

1. You must have general knowledge about the anatomy of chickens and cats.
2. You must understand the rules of arithmetic to multiply two times two, four times four, and add sixteen plus four..
3. You must algebraically understand that one unit of “chicken” equals two units of “legs” and one unit of “cat” equals four units of “legs”.
4. Logically you must realize that you must compare the sum of the animals’ legs to the number twenty two.
5. You must hold partial sums in short term memory to facilitate the comparison of the sums.
6. You may utilize visual apprehension to mentally picture the animals for easier assessment of the arithmetic operations.
7. Your vocabulary must be used to give meaning to the words of the problem.
8. If any of the words had an incorrect spelling it could have indicated a completely different problem was being presented or that a typographic error had occurred to invalidate the problem.
9. You need to use all these skills in a very short space of time and so your computational speed would necessarily have to be fast enough to allow for an answer to be determined in the allowed space of time.
10. Finally, your intuition must determine if the statement has a common sense feel to it. Intuition must be used to “scan” for puns, meaning twisted by context, or any misleading aspects.

In all the above ways, and in many additional ways not discussed, determining the truthfulness of a statement is an exceedingly complex series of mental events.
What does my score mean?

Find out, what your IQ is by taking our psychometric test here.