IQ Test for Every Age and Group
There is one LifeScore IQ test: 25 visual puzzles in about 12 minutes, scored the same way for everyone. These 30 guides explain what it can and cannot tell you at your age or in your line of work.
By age
From kids and single school years to adults, over 40s, over 50s and seniors.
- IQ Test for KidsA parent guide for ages 8 to 10 and under: what a child can get from an online puzzle test, and what needs a psychologist.
- IQ Test for 11 Year OldsThe 11-plus, non-verbal reasoning and the famous 1932 test of every 11 year old in Scotland.
- IQ Test for 12 Year OldsWhy bright 12 year olds are sometimes tested above their age, and why our scores are not.
- IQ Test for TeensAges 13 to 17: average IQ by age, how teen scores are read, and how accurate an online test is for teens.
- IQ Test for 14 Year OldsWhat IQ scores mean at 14, how much they can still change, and the tests 14 year olds meet at school.
- IQ Test for 16 Year OldsAlso for 17 year olds. The age where adult IQ tests begin, and how reasoning links to GCSE results.
- IQ Test for AdultsThe standard adult test: how adult scores are spread and why different abilities peak at different ages.
- IQ Test for Over 40sWhy middle age is the peak for several abilities, and what the timer means after 40.
- IQ Test for Over 50sWhat the Whitehall II study found after 45, and the honest evidence on brain training.
- IQ Test for SeniorsFor adults 60 and over: does IQ change with age, average IQ over 60, and why this is not a cognitive screening.
By study and work
Students, professions and the aptitude tests each one already knows.
- IQ Test for StudentsWhy self-discipline predicts grades as well as IQ, and what schooling does to scores.
- IQ Test for College StudentsHow the SAT relates to IQ, and why admissions scores and IQ scores are not the same scale.
- IQ Test for Job SeekersAlso covers job interviews: Wonderlic, CCAT and graduate reasoning tests, and how much employers rely on them.
- IQ Test for the MilitaryFrom the 1917 Army Alpha to the ASVAB and BARB, and how AFQT percentiles relate to IQ.
- IQ Test for EngineersSpatial ability, mental rotation and the Project Talent evidence on who goes into STEM.
- IQ Test for Programmers and Tech WorkersAlso for programmers: the retracted "two humps" paper, Google on brainteasers, and which puzzles feel like debugging.
- IQ Test for ScientistsTerman's excluded Nobel laureates, Anne Roe's eminent scientists, and the limits of a 25-item test.
- IQ Test for DoctorsUCAT, BMAT and MCAT, and why clinical pattern recognition is not the same as IQ.
- IQ Test for NursesTEAS, drug calculation tests and NCLEX, and why shift work affects any timed score.
- IQ Test for TeachersThe evidence on teacher skills and student results, and how to handle IQ with a class.
- IQ Test for LawyersLSAT, LNAT and Watson-Glaser, and what a non-verbal test reveals about verbal professionals.
- IQ Test for ExecutivesCan a leader be too smart for their team? What studies of leaders and CEOs found.
- IQ Test for Entrepreneurs"Smart and Illicit": the research on who becomes an entrepreneur, and what IQ does not measure.
- IQ Test for CreativesThe threshold hypothesis on IQ and creativity, and why this test measures convergent thinking only.
- IQ Test for AthletesThe NFL's Wonderlic, 3D object tracking in pro athletes, and why this is not a concussion check.
By goal and background
Parents, first-timers, high achievers and more.
- IQ Test for ParentsHow much of IQ is inherited, regression to the mean, and why parents should take the test first.
- IQ Test for WomenSex differences, how tests were designed to be fair, and what stereotype threat research really found.
- IQ Test for Gifted ChildrenFor parents: how giftedness is really identified, asynchronous development, and what praise research says.
- IQ Test for High AchieversHigh IQ society thresholds with computed rarity, and why very high scores are less precise.
- IQ Test for BeginnersYour first IQ test, step by step: what happens, how the timer works, and why not to practise first.
Is there a different IQ test for each group?
No. Everyone takes the same 25 questions with the same timer, and the score is not adjusted for age. Each guide explains how to read your result in context, and where a professional, age-normed assessment is the better choice, especially for children.
Curious how you compare with famous minds instead? Try the Einstein IQ test.