I got 132.

Logical reasoning 100 YAY!!

Tanada, I'm not surprised you don't do IQ tests, they are something that Britain and especially the US go nuts over, but the rest of the world actually looked at the scientific debunking of them in the 1970s.
It is just a way of labelling kids to say - you're bright, so we'll spend lots of money on your education, and you're thick so we'll teach you how to put cars together on the cheap.

I have problems with some of the questions. A lot of them are based on general knowledge (otherwise known as trivia) - plant names, city names etc. That tests your recall, not your reasoning.
Also the 'odd one out' questions depend greatly on your outlook and the way you approach the question. Some of them had no correct answer as far as I could see. For example:
Car, Steamboat, Airplane, Bus, Train.
All except car are public transport vehicles
All except steamboat have wheels
Only train uses rails
Only Airplane flies
Only steamboat floats across water
Only steamboat runs on steam

etc. etc. etc. I am sure I could think of a few more odd ones out. My first interpretation was the 'public transport' one - because I live in a country where we have a public transport system and I spend a lot of time using it. Other countries don't have public transport at all, so that would never occur to them. Who is more intelligent? Get my drift?

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I agree, Epona! It didn't look like a sensible test at all, in some areas, and that one is a case in point. I also figured out several ways in which each one differed from the rest, all perfectly logical and reasonable. I plumped for the steamboat in the end because it uses different fuel! But there is no way to check the 'right' answer.
I also scored high on 'pattern recognition - but I have done badly on that in other IQ tests I have taken - and those patterns were SO obvious a baby could have done 'em!
Anyway - I scored 33 on Arithmetic and that HAS to be a first for me! I wouldn't have expected more than about 10 in any other Arithmetic test, lol!

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LOL Flojtsdale - I went for steamboat as well - I wonder what the "right" answer is. And Epona, good expansion of the possible answers for that question - incidentally I didn't rule out the train as not using steam, because it didn't specify that it couldn't be a steam train. I took the current form of public transport argument. Incidentally, what were the first and third jumbled letter words???

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I chose the airplane because it flew while all of the others were at ground level.

I think that proves my point. That is no less valid an answer than any of the others we could come up with, but I wonder which was judged 'correct' by the test designer?

I know that this sort of test can be more valid at determining which way you approach problems, which is useful to know if you are putting together a team of problem solvers - so that you get a good mix of different ways of thinking.
For example, we have looked at straightforward ways of determining the odd one out. But there are other ways. Does one of the answers have less letters in the word? Do the letters of each word all contain straight edges bar one? If you assign numbers to each letter of the alphabet, do all the words 'add up' to the same except one? Does one word have more vowels?
There are a whole number of approaches to the 'odd one out' test.

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142 or 143?

Guess that's good. I got a lowish in the 1st one can't really remember what that was.... YAWN this was at 6 in the morning not the best time..

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I've taken a couple of these. I think I remember taking this one, although it's been a little while. I generally score between 135-145 depending on the test, my spare time, the questions, etc. I also maxed out the ASVAB before joining the military 99% total. Line scores between 132-140 all the way across the board. I remember not doing extremely well on the foreign language aptitude test though. It was supposed to test your potential at rapidly picking up foreign languages and understanding language you weren't fluent in by association. A tape would rapidly say things to you and you had a questionaire to fill out. Very confusing as the two didn't seem to coincide.

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Interesting to see that noone got below 100 http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif... well, I guess the big W Jr isn't on the board after all http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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a measley 99. Ive gotten dumber since school. I scored
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