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Test Your IQ: 400 New Tests to Boost Your Brainpower!

by: Ken Russell, Philip Carter
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0749432993  9780749432997 



Test Your IQ: 400 New Tests to Boost Your Brainpower!
By Ken Russell, Philip Carter




Product Description:

As IQ tests become an increasingly common part of the job application process for the Civil Service, the armed forces, education, industry and commerce, Test Your IQ is a book targeted at anyone keen to move up the career ladder, as well as hobbyist 'puzzlers'. It contains brand-new, previously unpublished material that combines verbal, IQ and pictorial tests and which, if used regularly, will increase every reader's IQ rating by the few points that could prove decisive.




Summary: Utterly annoying and inaccurate
Rating: 1

As a curent MENSA member, I find this book completely irritating and inaccurate! It should by no means be held as a traditional example of an IQ intelligence measure, due to the complete innanity of some of the questions put forth. Please find yourself a better-suited test of intelligence that broaches the lines of a half-way normal brain.



Summary: Compares accurately with formally administered IQ tests
Rating: 5

_I bought this little book of IQ tests as a retest. Now that I am nearing 50 hard-won years I wanted to know if I had "slowed down" to a measurable degree. I had always done well on standardised tests in school (PSAT, ACT, GRE), plus I had qualified for both MENSA and INTERTEL when much younger. So I took all four tests. The results were in the range that the more formal tests always yielded (except that the first was a little low- 119, 142, 163, 140.) On the basis of this I have to assume that, 1) these tests compare favorably with the formal, professionally administered versions, and 2) no, I don't really seem to have lost much of my old ability. On that basis I recommend them.

_As for the tests themselves they include "odd one out" problems, language tests, calculation, and pattern logic. They test your powers of deduction, reasoning, and innovation. All the tests are timed- and that is an important factor in their accuracy.

_There is a section describing the MENSA Society (founded at Oxford in 1946) and giving contact addresses for chapters in the UK, Australia, Canada, the USA (obsolete), and International.

One word of caution- if you qualify, don't let it go to your head. Nothing is more irritating than an intelligent person that thinks that their uninformed opinion is consistently infallible. You can be quite conventionally intelligent, yet extremely ignorant in an almost infinite number of areas. Remember Socrate's words: "I know that I don't know." Now that is intelligent AND wise...



Summary: Interesting book
Rating: 3

The book has 10 tests with 40 questions each, and with a time limit of 90 min. While I by no means am an expert in IQ books, I think this book is a little annoying. I am not sure that the tests have been really standardized, and there is no chart for calculating an IQ apart from a relative scale. In general I do not think that the tests appear to be 'culture fair'. People who do not have English as first language can forget about solving the questions where English is needed. All together the tests and questions are varied, mistake-free and well thought, but I think that the average person would find other books more interesting. This book is for people who as 'sport' has IQ testing and the authors, well-known IQ writers, must also be said to belong to that category. The questions are certainly challenging and in the upper end of what one finds in IQ test books. I recommend the book but it is not for the beginner.