Can someone tell me what the MENSA test is like?

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27 Oct 2007, 1:51 pm

I know this is unrelated to AS, but then again, threads about MENSA and about intelligence pop up almost every week on this forum. :)



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27 Oct 2007, 5:03 pm

Sorry, but I haven't taken it. I just submitted the results of the WISC-III test I was given as a teenager.



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27 Oct 2007, 5:31 pm

This forum is packed with MENSA members (or so they say). Someone must know the answers to my question :)



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27 Oct 2007, 6:09 pm

Mw99 wrote:
This forum is packed with MENSA members (or so they say). Someone must know the answers to my question :)


There are a number of ways to qualify though, and since many people on here have been administered professional IQ tests as part of an assessment battery, it's possible that no one's taken the actual Mensa test.

To guess at the answer to question #6, I really doubt that it is possible to take it anonymously. For one thing, that would allow people to take it more than once, which would really screw with the results.



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27 Oct 2007, 7:07 pm

LostInSpace wrote:
Mw99 wrote:
This forum is packed with MENSA members (or so they say). Someone must know the answers to my question :)


There are a number of ways to qualify though, and since many people on here have been administered professional IQ tests as part of an assessment battery, it's possible that no one's taken the actual Mensa test.

To guess at the answer to question #6, I really doubt that it is possible to take it anonymously. For one thing, that would allow people to take it more than once, which would really screw with the results.


I think you can take the tests as many times as you want as long as you keep paying. I'm just guessing as I haven't read their rules.



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27 Oct 2007, 7:35 pm

Mw99 wrote:
LostInSpace wrote:
Mw99 wrote:
This forum is packed with MENSA members (or so they say). Someone must know the answers to my question :)


There are a number of ways to qualify though, and since many people on here have been administered professional IQ tests as part of an assessment battery, it's possible that no one's taken the actual Mensa test.

To guess at the answer to question #6, I really doubt that it is possible to take it anonymously. For one thing, that would allow people to take it more than once, which would really screw with the results.


I think you can take the tests as many times as you want as long as you keep paying. I'm just guessing as I haven't read their rules.


You never know, as they probably make a LOT of money selling practice tests, etc... but the more they do that, the less reason there is to join.

Then again, they DO accept a lot of scores.



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30 Oct 2007, 11:13 am

I took one online before and it was a normal IQ test, though more difficult. It said I didn't qualify for Mensa because my IQ was only 100 or 106 (I forget which one it was).



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30 Oct 2007, 5:05 pm

why do you care? mensa is for nerds that think they are smart, but are actually not