IQ Test for 17 Year Olds

A 17 year old can take this IQ test in about 12 minutes: 25 visual puzzles, no sign-up to start. It scores 17 year olds the same way as adults.

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25 questions · about 12 minutes

Want the average rather than a test? The average IQ of a 17 year old is 100, at every age.

The test at a glance

Questions: 25 visual puzzles
Question types: 5 sets, each easy to hard
Time: 12-minute timer
Scoring: Same for every age, not age-adjusted
Cost: No sign-up to start. When you finish, you choose a report to see your result.

Scores are not age-normed, and this is not a clinical or diagnostic test.

By 17, reasoning on visual puzzles is close to adult level for most people, and psychologists would test you with an adult scale. You are also likely to be facing university or college applications.

That is why a 17 year old IQ test is a common search. The useful questions are what this one is, what an official one involves, and what the number does and does not predict.

How this test works for a 17 year old

You take the same 25 puzzles and 12-minute timer as every adult, and the score is not age-adjusted. At 17 that matters little, because your reasoning is near adult level on this type of puzzle. A younger teen is more affected.

Take it rested, not straight after a day of exams.
Use a laptop or tablet if you can. The diagrams are easier to read.
Do not search for answers. It only spoils the result for you.

Is there an official IQ test for a 17 year old?

Our test is not an official or clinical IQ test, and no online test is. An official IQ test is given one to one by a psychologist. At 17 that is normally the WAIS-IV or WAIS-5, which are normed for ages 16 to 90, and it takes an hour or more.

If you need a result for a school, college or medical reason, ask your school or a registered psychologist. If you want to try for a society, British Mensa runs supervised tests, and it does not accept online results.

What scores mean at 17

On a normed adult test, 100 is average and about two thirds of people score between 85 and 115. At 17 you are compared with other 17 year olds. The table shows what share each score beats. Our test reports an estimate on the same kind of scale but without an age comparison.

IQ	Higher than	How rare
85	15.9% of people	Common
100	50.0% of people	Common
115	84.1% of people	about 1 in 6 this high
125	95.2% of people	about 1 in 21 this high
130	97.7% of people	about 1 in 44 this high
140	99.62% of people	about 1 in 261 this high

Computed from the normal curve (mean 100, standard deviation 15). Applies to properly normed tests.

IQ, the SAT and university

Reasoning ability and admissions tests overlap a lot. A study by Meredith Frey and Douglas Detterman found SAT scores correlate strongly with general ability measures. That does not make an online IQ score a stand-in for a SAT, an ACT or A-level grades, which also depend on what you have studied.

If you are a high school student comparing options, the IQ test for high school students covers how the SAT and IQ relate in more detail.