IQ Test for Parents

Parents can take this IQ test in about 12 minutes: 25 visual puzzles, and a good way to see what an IQ test feels like before your child ever sits one.

What's your IQ?

Take the IQ test

25 questions · about 12 minutes

What would you score? Try question 1.

Which option completes the grid? One tap, no sign-up.

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.

Parents usually come to IQ tests through their children: a school report, a letter about a gifted programme, or a curious child.

Taking a test yourself is the easiest way to understand what the numbers do and do not mean.

How much of IQ is inherited?

Twin studies find that the heritability of IQ increases with age. A 2010 study of 11,000 pairs of twins by Claire Haworth and colleagues found it rose from about 41% in childhood to 55% in adolescence and 66% in young adulthood.

That does not mean your child's IQ is set by yours. Heritability describes differences across a population, not a single family. Children of parents with very high scores also tend to score closer to average than their parents, a pattern called regression to the mean.

How this test works for parents

It was written for teens and adults, so it suits you better than a young child.
Try it, then look at the first puzzle together with your child if they are curious.
Your result is private, and nothing is shared with a school or anyone else.

What scores mean for parents

Your score is a snapshot of your visual reasoning today, on a scale where 100 is the population average.

It tells you nothing certain about your children's ability, and your children's scores tell you nothing certain about yours.

Before you test your child

Ask what decision the result would inform. If the answer is none, a puzzle for fun is enough.
Talk to the school first. Teachers see how a child reasons every day, and schools can arrange age-normed assessment when it is needed.
Avoid labels. A number heard at 8 can stick for years, whether it is flattering or not.
If a child asks to try this test, take it together and focus on the puzzles, not the score.