IQ tests date back to 1905 when Alfred Benit, a French psychologist began to “test” children of different mental capabilities. He set out to find a way to identify those students needing special programs in school and created the foundation that modern intelligence testing is based on.
Visit these five sites to take a free IQ test.
Editor’s Note 07-30-2011: When this post was first written, all of the following IQ tests were absolutely free to take. Our readers have brought to our attention that many of the sites have switched to a “for fee” model. We are currently researching this issue and will post a new list of free sites once we verify that they are completely free. If you have a free test to add to the list, please leave it in the comments below and we will check it out. Thanks!
This company offers a free IQ test as well as personality and career testing. There’s even a free quiz to determine if you’re smarter than a 5th grader.
2) The International High IQ Society
A score of 126 or above on one of two tests offered gets you an invitation to join this online club.
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A “fast, free and accurate online IQ test.” This is a quick test, but I found it to be way too easy. You will probably see an inflated score, but it’s good for practice if you’ve never taken an IQ test before. At the end you will be asked for your email address and then you’ll see about 10 or so pages of opt-in offers. None are actually required for you to receive your score.
Be sure to check the box that indicates whether or not you want to be contacted for future mailings.
(From the website) “This IQ test measures several factors of intelligence, namely logical reasoning, math skills and general knowledge. It also measures your ability to classify things according to various attributes, and to see analogies and relations among concepts or things. It doesn’t take into consideration verbal, social, or emotional intelligence.”
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9 Comments On This Post
I tried the psychtests.com “real IQ test” and it asked me for $7 at the end without giving me a “free result”.
Not happy.
So many of the ‘free IQ” tests are anything but free. Try to weed out those scams and tell us anout the truly free ones. Thanks
The first one is bad. I looked at the detailed report, and I got about half as many wrong as they said I did(I got 3 wrong, after extensively checking my answers, and they got the other 3 wrong). One of their explanations was “If some cats are animals, and some animals are dogs, then some cats are definitely dogs.” They put false as the answer.
First, some cats are not animals, all cats are animals.
If I didn’t know what a cat was, then I could say that both neither answer is true and because either answer could be right.
@poke, The test is right. Think about it a little harder. Even if you change the minor into the universal affirmative that all cats are animals, it still doesn’t follow that some cats are dogs.
Cool way to check IQ, Thanks to share
The best one was the Psychtests, it didnt make me crazy trying to get past a ton of offfers to see the results! took about 45 mins and seemed more accurate than the other ones, the other sites were loaded with pages and pages of offers you have to skip thru to see the results
Thank you so much for the links =)
I’ve seen so many TEST IQ sites out there and they just absolutely swarm with pop up ads.
It gets quite annoying. Thanks again!
-Nurse Jen Doll
Interesting sites. I took the first test, but it didn’t work with my firefox browser, so I used explorer.
cool. great post!
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