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1. Are these two words similar, contradictory, or unrelated?
AGILE
GENEROSITY
Similar
Contradictory
Unrelated
2. What is the length of the red line in this diagram?
9
10
11
14
21
3. Complete the analogy. Duck is to bird as ...
Banana is to peel
Chair is to furniture
Child is to parent
Dark is to night
Trombone is to music
4. Together Sam and Sarah have $1,000. Sam has $500 more than Sarah. How much does Sarah have?
$100
$250
$500
$750
impossible to say
5. What is 4/5 times 1/4?
1/20
1/5
16/5
4
6. Which word has an opposite meaning to "hazardous"?
Agile
Comfortable
Lazy
Ready
Secure
7. Which of the following dates is the earliest?
March 2, 1961
January 1, 1989
July 17th, 1943
October 11th, 1943
8. What is 42 times 3?
45
126
146
423
9. Which number comes next in this series: 5, 12, 26, 54?
45
80
108
110
10. Which number is the largest?
Eleven billion
Forty two million
Nine hundred ninety thousand
One million
11. Which word best completes this sentence: "Many villages were _______ in the widespread forest fires."
Incinerated
Infernal
Inflated
Innovated
Inundated
12. What is 116.7812 rounded to the nearest tenths place?
116.7
116.78
116.8
117
120
13. If you flip a coin three times, what are the odds it will land on heads at least once?
1/2
2/3
3/4
7/8
14. Which word doesn't belong?
Arrogant
Disdainful
Haughty
Miserly
15. What word means the opposite of delighted?
Displeased
Impoverished
Obtuse
Ugliness
16. New York is three hours ahead of Los Angeles. It is 2:00 AM in New York. What time is it in Los Angeles?
5:00 AM
5:00 PM
11:00 PM
Midnight
17. Every other Friday, Kevin is paid $3,000. About how much does he earn in a year?
$30,000
$60,000
$78,000
$156,000
18. If you fold these squares into a cube, which corner would touch X?
A
B
C
D
E
19. Which of these percentages is closest to 3/7?
14%
33%
40%
50%
75%
20. Which word is most similar to intricate?
Complicated
Expensive
Hollow
Predestined
21. Arrange the following words to make a complete sentence.
allowed
he
win
game
had
Sarah
the
to
Which word comes before "Sarah"?
Allowed
Game
Had
To
Win
22. How many 3x2 tiles are needed to cover a floor that is 12x15?
20
25
30
35
23. Complete the analogy. Guitar is to piano as ...
Camera is to photographer
Home is to family
Milk is to juice
Tree is to forest
24. What letter is halfway between N and V?
O
Q
R
S
W
25. John owns several cars, which have a total value of $100,000. His most expensive car is worth $20,000. Which of the following statements cannot be true?
All of John's cars are worth at least $5,000
John has more than 10 cars
John owns exactly 4 cars
John's most expensive car is yellow
26. The time is currently 4:44. In how many minutes will it be 5:55?
11
45
61
71
27. What is 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4?
7/8
1
13/12
6/5
28. Which of the following proverbs has a meaning that is contradictory to "the pen is mightier than the sword"?
Actions speak louder than words
Better late than never
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Two heads are better than one
29. A tree grows 3 feet per year. Five years from now it will be 21 feet tall. How tall is it now?
6 feet
12 feet
16 feet
18 feet
30. Which of these is equal to 57.4%?
0.00574
0.574
43.6
57.4
31. Are these two words similar, contradictory, or unrelated?
CONSTRUCT
DISMANTLE
Similar
Contradictory
Unrelated
32. What is the 9th month of the year?
August
July
September
November
33. Complete the analogy. 9 is to 81 as 119 is to _____
47
1,345
9,754
14,161
34. What comes next in this series?
35. If the first two statements are true, is the third statement also true?
John is taller than Wayne
John is shorter than Sarah
Wayne is shorter than Sarah
Yes
No
Uncertain
36. Andre and four of his friends went out for breakfast. The total bill was $75. If they split the bill equally, how much did Andre pay?
$10.00
$12.50
$15.00
$18.75
37. Maria drove 100 miles at 50 miles an hour, and then drove 200 miles at 25 miles an hour. What was her average speed?
27.5 mph
30 mph
37.5 mph
40 mph
38. Which word has a similar meaning to "boisterous"?
Criminal
Juicy
Noisy
Simple
Tardy
39. All red-haired people play basketball. None of the basketball players are children. What conclusion can we draw from these statements?
All children have red hair
None of the red-haired people are children
None of the red-haired people play basketball
40. Only 20% of farms have good soil. But these farms produce 80% of the crops. How many times more productive is a farm with good soil than one without?
2 times
4 times
8 times
16 times
41. Which of these words does not belong with the others?
Bicycle
Boat
Car
Fan
Train
42. Organic eggs cost $4 / dozen and regular eggs cost $3 / dozen. Jason spent $11 to buy 36 eggs. How many of the eggs he bought were organic?
6
12
24
36
impossible to say
43. Which of these lists of numbers adds up to 73?
2, 8, 16, 40
9, 18, 17, 24
11, 18, 14, 30
38, 11, 13, 12
44.
10
25
70
100
150
45. What number times itself is equal to 1369?
12
25
37
50
46. Over the last five years, the North American Widget Company has sold 17, 24, 26, 41, and 71 widgets respectively. Which graph best depicts this trend?
47. Jessica can mow 4 lawns every 3 hours and earns $11 for every lawn she mows. If she mows lawns for 12 hours, how much will she earn?
33
44
132
176
48. Which word does not belong?
Abstract
Peaceful
Serene
Tranquil
49. What is -4 times -4?
-16
-8
4
16
50. Sally paid for a coffee with a $10 bill and received $7.29 in change. How much did the coffee cost?
You probably suffer from availability bias. Many smart people overestimate the intelligence of average people since they interact with so few of them.
This leads to the frequent, but very incorrect, opinion that IQ doesn't matter. Spend some time around people with below average intelligence and you'll realize that IQ matters. A lot.
I think intelligence matters but IQ doesn't. At least where I'm from, anyway. It's not a common test for people to take and IQ tests are not well regarded in the education community. That's mostly because many old IQ tests used questions that were biased towards native English-speakers and people who are culturally European.
You're welcome to all the lukewarm-IQ doctors, pilots, lawyers, judges, power plant & water treatment operators, civil engineers, journalists, professors....
This is a specious argument. Aptitude tests are not inherently bad, but my point was simply that IQ tests traditionally use English vocabulary. It's not exactly a stretch to think that a person who grew up speaking a different language would be at a disadvantage on a test like this. And evidence-based societies only work when the evidence is correctly interpreted.
I guarantee that there are new immigrants to English-speaking countries who are much more intelligent than you or me but would score worse because of the language gap.
You seem to not be understanding the post you are replying to. Dimby said there's nothing wrong with aptitude tests in theory, it's IQ specifically that is flawed. There are hundreds of studies that demonstrate that. If you think, for example, that IQ solely measures something genetically inherited, how do you reconcile that belief with the proven fact that you can improve your performance on IQ tests by preparing or studying for them? IQ tests are in part measuring something learned, not inherited.
The point is: if one person has an IQ of 120, and another has an IQ of 110, that does not make the first person more "intelligent", because IQ is a flawed measurement, and an incomplete measurement -- intelligence is way more complicated than what IQ tests purport to assess.
Vocabulary is an excellent test of intelligence. In fact, when you measure how g-loaded various intelligence tests are, vocabulary often comes out on top.
It's much less gameable than other tests since the level of "studying" required to improve your score is very high compared to simpler tests like, for example, digit span.
Now, you can make an argument that vocab doesn't truly test intelligence, it only reveals it. That may be true. Unintelligent people don't read. Intelligent people do. If you deprived an otherwise intelligent person access to written texts they would do poorly on vocabulary. No one disputes that. And obviously it would be unfair to test someone on their non-native language.
In general, IQ tests are extremely useful. I'd rather hire a person who scored 40 on this test without a college degree than a Harvard grad who scored a 25.
Just because intelligence can't be measured perfectly, doesn't mean it can't be measured at all.
@rabble: I get the impression that you feel very strongly about this but never really looked into it. Traditional IQ tests have never been nonverbal. IQ tests largely depend on vocabulary. Exactly as QM points out, vocabulary is generally the MOST reliable part of an IQ test, which is why it's on all major aptitude tests (IQ, SAT, etc). But again, your argument is specious. Things don't necessarily fit neatly into boxes in life--it's ok that people don't agree, but I think a life is better lived by asking questions. Having a sick turn of phrase but lacking substance and misunderstanding the other side of the argument... it's no way to live.
@QM: Yes, I do agree that IQ is a great indicator for things like future income level and longevity. There is undoubtedly statistical correlation between IQ and many positive attributes. I do think, however, that the making of these tests must be done extremely carefully. Again, I don't think a recent French immigrant who grew up voraciously reading Moliere and Hugo is really on equal footing with an English person who's been reading English their whole lives.
Another case I can remember from my own personal experience. It's a LONG time ago, but it went something like: manual is to machine as catechism is to ________.
Afterwards I asked my family what the heck this word was... we didn't even use catechisms! Even then I kinda felt that question was biased. Not that I'm bitter.
IQ can be useful if you understand what it measures, and how it is limited. But when people take it purely as a measure of capacity to learn or reason, they are misunderstanding the extent to which it measures crystallized intelligence. The vocab part of an IQ test, for example, is partly just measuring educational opportunities -- whether as part of your upbringing you were reading Jane Austen and Josef Conrad. A lot of very intelligent people (in the sense that they have the capacity to do a lot of intellectual things) never had the chance to learn that particular type of vocab.
And then I think a lot of people, looking at the correlation between IQ and other kinds of achievement, confuse correlation with causation. The person with the educational background that gives them the kind of vocabulary to do well on an IQ test usually has a lot of other life advantages that will help them get a high salary job later on.
I initially read every other day.. so wasted time there too.. was calculating it and then realised wait, these answers are much too low.. then it still took me a while to figure out what was wrong haha
I'm gonna sound like a huge nerd for saying this, but in question 2, the length of the red line cannot be determined. The side lengths are defined, but they could actually be placed in any angle because that is not defined. This would change the length of the red line.
Indicating right angles or parallel lines would fix this.
I thought about that too, but in that case the answer would have been “impossible to know”. Since there’s no such answer, you immediately can tell that “what you see is what you get” is implied, i.e. right angles.
I 100% read question 10's first choice as "eleventy billion" and i thought well that's not even a word and chose 42 million thinking it was a trick. I missed what is essentially the easiest question on the whole quiz.
Feel pretty good about 43/50, especially since I completely guessed on several of the math ones (and apparently was confident July was the ninth month)
50/50 - The difference between getting a 45 and a 50 (if math is your hangup), is just being able to move on as soon as you've ruled out answers that can't be right. For example the 119 * 119 question: I don't need to figure it out, I just know that 100 * 100 is 10,000, and there's only one answer bigger than 10,000. There are a bunch of problems like that, and if you can do that problem in 2 seconds instead of 45, it lets you spend more time elsewhere if you need it.
Time is definitiv the main factor here. Most of the questions are pretty easy, although as a non native english speaker I struggeled with some of the vocabulary questions.
I also guessed some of the mathematics questions to win some time.
I still ended with about 10 questions unanswered but 36 right.
An IQ test measures the raw processing power of your brain, so of course time is a factor. It measures how quickly your brain can process data and do abstract calculations.
It's similar to a computer benchmark in which you measure how many operations a computer chip can do in a certain time, or how long it takes to do a certain job (both measure how many calculations per second).
The time limit is an important part of an IQ test. It is an assessment that measures a range of cognitive abilities, including solving problems, using logic, and spatial reasoning and how well the test taker can do these things within a time limit. Cognitive abilities by definition includes how fast you can do things and how well you can do them under pressure. Taking it away would make this test not an IQ test.
You are right about time being a key factor for an IQ test, but in this test there are some questions which test your knowledge, or better put, your vocabulary.
While a higher IQ helps to achieve a greater vocabulary, it also depends a lot on the social environment you lived in.
Of course it is also a factor if the language of the test is your native language or a language you learned later, but I assume that this test is meant for native english speakers, so I don't think that matters here.
Among all the things in a typical IQ test, vocabulary has the highest correlation with g, or general intelligence.
Yes, it's obvious you can study vocabulary, but it's not like you can do it in an afternoon. It takes years, and smarter people will learn faster. Other parts of an IQ test are actually much more game-able.
For native speakers of a language, a large vocabulary is a strong, though not foolproof, indicator of intelligence.
47/50 with 2 minutes left, though I got fooled by how numbers are written in english (as opposed to french) : we use a komma to indicate decimals and space out groops of 3 numbers, while in english the point is used for the decimals and a komma for thousands.
Example :
French writing : this house costs 1 000 000,00€
English writing : this house costs $1,000,000.00
So I misinterpreted a number in the thousands as a much smaller number with decimals, whose order of magnitude couldn't be true.
The odds question is incorrect. 7/8 is the probability. Odds are equal to the probability of an event happening divided by the probability of the event not happening. Here, that is 7/8 / 1/8 = 7/1 = 7. The odds are 7, or as odds are most typically expressed, 7:1 or 7 to 1.
A lot of NFL players are pretty dumb, but not all of them. It is just a fact and this test is traditionally used on them to test their cognitive abilities. This is an adaptation of the real thing; the record for the real test to be finished is nine minutes at a 48/50 by Ryan Fitzpatrick.
You are correct. The outcome of any one flip has no dependency on those preceding it, therefore the odds of heads (or tails) from any one flip is 50/50 regardless of the result of any preceding flip.
I browsed the questions prior to taking it. I decided not to take it because it is skewed toward mathematical problem- solving. Verbal logic tests are critical and a stromger indicator of IQ . The Miller Analogy Test is a good measure of IQ. Recognizing relational patterns is more important.
The way I see it, the top hand doesn’t move at all. The other hand starts with an eighth rotation, then quarter, then 3/8 rotation, so the next rotation is a half rotation, moving it from top left to bottom right.
At first it seems like it’s a doubling sequence: from 1/8 to 1/4, from 1/4 to 1/2. Since there isn’t an answer that shows from 1/2 to 1, it must be the “increasing the margin by another 1/8 each time”.
I looked at it like 2:00>3:00>6:00>10:00 giving 2+1=3, 3+3=6, 6+4=10 then looking at the possible answers pretty obvious. I was surprised to see this quiz, scored 50/50. Having taken the wonderlic a few times loooong ago for job interviews, I think I scored in the low 40s at the time. The 'trick' for the math stuff is to quickly rationalize the answers rather than figure out the answers, mostly ratios and simple algebra. The farm one is a good example, good soil is a 1:4 producer, others are a 1:.25 producer, 4/.25=16. I think the wonderlic is out of fashion, but it's just a tool.
Dangit. 49/50. I remember some of this from when it was on the front page last time, though. Saw that I had 30 seconds left on the lawn mowing question and skipped it and came back to it with 6 seconds left. My random guess was wrong.
Questions 2 and 42 are wrong, the answers should, in both cases, be "impossible". We neither know if Jason bought all his eggs in dozens, nor if the lines are all at right angles.
Looking at the stats, only 50% reach question 42. Just an observation, I found it an interesting piece of information.
Happy with my score (4/5), I didn't get 34 wasted too much time there so picked one and had to speed up afterwards. It was the only one I got wrong (of those I actually tried to solve), skipped 42 cause I had just seconds left and ran out of time when just after answering 46.
So 1 wrong 1 skipped and 3 not reached. If I had skipped the one I had wrong, perhaps I could have solved the others. (48and 49 are easy, 47 and 50 are ones that need concentration though, something that I have difficulties with . Health related, at one point I couldn't read 3 words because by then I had forgotten the first already, and simple additions like 15+8 would take me forever, because when thinking of the 8 I had already forgotten what I was adding it to..So I am happy to have been able to do this test at relative speed.
Maybe in the answer stats also add a column with the question number? That way you could get a clearer picture which questions were difficult and which people just didn't get around to. (When you sort the columns by question number).
On a site like this I can't be the only one that likes to check the results after a quiz and interpret it. (Which questions were least guessed and why, what is the pattern etc)
Question #41 is ambiguous and should be rejected. While a fan is not a mode of transport, it produces motion using spinning wheels like all the others except for the boat. If you had never seen any of these items before, and didn't know what they were used for, one could easily conclude that the boat, with no moving parts at all, and probably found in the water, a different environment from any of the others, could be the odd one out.
I have missed "boisterous", a word I have never heard of, English being my third language. Most of this quiz felt more like an English exam rather than an intelligence test.
Also, it is clearly ment for Americans, with how the dates are written their scrambled way, and miles and dozens are used. Also, the AM-PM clock took me some more time than it would have if the times were written out normally.
Man, the timing would have been good to have noticed beforehand, was expecting ~30 questions.
Very different to tests in the UK where they teach you to be thorough and check your answers, I only answered 80% of the questions cos I was being leisurely and double-checking.
An average of 35 is in the 97th percentile so obviously Jetpunkers move up with points, it is being taken multiple times. Average IQ is 20 correct in the real world.
I do feel however most who do Jet Punk are on the right side of the bell curve.
Don't feel bad if you scored low, the twelve minutes go by fast and people who realize this do better just because they have a good idea when to skip a question.
I should've quickly done random answers for the ones I didn't have time for so instead of 40/50 I would've gotten 45/50. 40/41 right of the ones I tried. mannnnnnnnnnnnnn
I don't want to sound rude, but it honestly surprises me that the average would be 35.
This leads to the frequent, but very incorrect, opinion that IQ doesn't matter. Spend some time around people with below average intelligence and you'll realize that IQ matters. A lot.
I'll stick with the evidence-based society.
I guarantee that there are new immigrants to English-speaking countries who are much more intelligent than you or me but would score worse because of the language gap.
Good luck with the anesthesiologist who can't figure out pattern recognition.
But keep that to your life - I'm past blatantly ignoring genetic heritability. Become a missionary abroad; fill your boots.
The point is: if one person has an IQ of 120, and another has an IQ of 110, that does not make the first person more "intelligent", because IQ is a flawed measurement, and an incomplete measurement -- intelligence is way more complicated than what IQ tests purport to assess.
Vocabulary is an excellent test of intelligence. In fact, when you measure how g-loaded various intelligence tests are, vocabulary often comes out on top.
It's much less gameable than other tests since the level of "studying" required to improve your score is very high compared to simpler tests like, for example, digit span.
Now, you can make an argument that vocab doesn't truly test intelligence, it only reveals it. That may be true. Unintelligent people don't read. Intelligent people do. If you deprived an otherwise intelligent person access to written texts they would do poorly on vocabulary. No one disputes that. And obviously it would be unfair to test someone on their non-native language.
In general, IQ tests are extremely useful. I'd rather hire a person who scored 40 on this test without a college degree than a Harvard grad who scored a 25.
Just because intelligence can't be measured perfectly, doesn't mean it can't be measured at all.
Another case I can remember from my own personal experience. It's a LONG time ago, but it went something like: manual is to machine as catechism is to ________.
Afterwards I asked my family what the heck this word was... we didn't even use catechisms! Even then I kinda felt that question was biased. Not that I'm bitter.
And then I think a lot of people, looking at the correlation between IQ and other kinds of achievement, confuse correlation with causation. The person with the educational background that gives them the kind of vocabulary to do well on an IQ test usually has a lot of other life advantages that will help them get a high salary job later on.
Indicating right angles or parallel lines would fix this.
“This beats or equals 9.8% of test takers”
._.
and I'm 13 so waow
time should be 2 minutes longer
I also guessed some of the mathematics questions to win some time.
I still ended with about 10 questions unanswered but 36 right.
It's similar to a computer benchmark in which you measure how many operations a computer chip can do in a certain time, or how long it takes to do a certain job (both measure how many calculations per second).
While a higher IQ helps to achieve a greater vocabulary, it also depends a lot on the social environment you lived in.
Of course it is also a factor if the language of the test is your native language or a language you learned later, but I assume that this test is meant for native english speakers, so I don't think that matters here.
Yes, it's obvious you can study vocabulary, but it's not like you can do it in an afternoon. It takes years, and smarter people will learn faster. Other parts of an IQ test are actually much more game-able.
For native speakers of a language, a large vocabulary is a strong, though not foolproof, indicator of intelligence.
Example :
French writing : this house costs 1 000 000,00€
English writing : this house costs $1,000,000.00
So I misinterpreted a number in the thousands as a much smaller number with decimals, whose order of magnitude couldn't be true.
I forgot that the dude gets paid only once in two weeks for #17…. The rest were easy though imo and I finished with around 5 minutes left
Happy with my score (4/5), I didn't get 34 wasted too much time there so picked one and had to speed up afterwards. It was the only one I got wrong (of those I actually tried to solve), skipped 42 cause I had just seconds left and ran out of time when just after answering 46.
So 1 wrong 1 skipped and 3 not reached. If I had skipped the one I had wrong, perhaps I could have solved the others. (48and 49 are easy, 47 and 50 are ones that need concentration though, something that I have difficulties with . Health related, at one point I couldn't read 3 words because by then I had forgotten the first already, and simple additions like 15+8 would take me forever, because when thinking of the 8 I had already forgotten what I was adding it to..So I am happy to have been able to do this test at relative speed.
On a site like this I can't be the only one that likes to check the results after a quiz and interpret it. (Which questions were least guessed and why, what is the pattern etc)
I have missed "boisterous", a word I have never heard of, English being my third language. Most of this quiz felt more like an English exam rather than an intelligence test.
Also, it is clearly ment for Americans, with how the dates are written their scrambled way, and miles and dozens are used. Also, the AM-PM clock took me some more time than it would have if the times were written out normally.
Very different to tests in the UK where they teach you to be thorough and check your answers, I only answered 80% of the questions cos I was being leisurely and double-checking.
I do feel however most who do Jet Punk are on the right side of the bell curve.
Don't feel bad if you scored low, the twelve minutes go by fast and people who realize this do better just because they have a good idea when to skip a question.
when i get better at math i pray for a 50/50
Got all the english ones right though