Parts of an IQ Test

An IQ test, tests your intelligence on different levels of thinking. It examines your following faculties: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Verbal Intelligence Mathematical Ability Spatial Reasoning Skills Visual/Perceptual Skills Classification Skills Logical Reasoning Skills Pattern Recognition Skills

Verbal Intelligence A good command over your vocabulary, can take you places. This power of comprehension and expression is a true measure of intelligence. Verbal abilities include reading, writing and communicating with words. The verbal component of IQ tests examines your vocabulary, your capacity to learn verbal material and your ability to employ verbal skills in logical reasoning and problem solving. This section of the IQ tests includes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Proverb tests Analogies (to find the most likely match) Verbal classification (match the column) Antonyms, synonyms Verbal puzzles including Jumbled words

View Sample Questions Mathematical Ability In order to calculate your daily grocery bill, or sum your expenditures or savings, or to figure out the discounts offered, to estimate your income tax for all of the above you require reasonable numerical ability. Numerical ability endeavors to find your familiarity with numbers and their behaviors. Mathematical intelligence generally represents your ability to reason and perform elementary arithmetic computations. It also helps you to understand geometric shapes and manipulate equations. It is a strong indicator of general intelligence because several require arithmetical operations even though numbers may not be involved. This section of the IQ tests includes 1. 2. 3. Series problems Fill in the missing numbers Mathematical puzzles

View Sample Questions Spatial Reasoning Skills Spatial abilities are the perceptual and cognitive aptitudes that process spatial relations, in simpler words the visualization and orientation of objects in space. These assess your ability to manipulate 3D objects by tossing and rotating them. Spatial intelligence questions test your raw intelligence without the influence of prior study. On the prima facie, such questions may appear baffling but the trick is not to give up too quickly. Often a second look at the problem will reveal a different approach, and a solution will strike you, since the brain has been given the opportunity to process information further. This section of the IQ tests includes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Object Assembly Block Design Digit Symbol/Coding/Animal House Picture Arrangement Picture Concepts Picture Completion Matrix Reasoning

View Sample Questions Visual/Perceptual Skills Visual intelligence measures the ability to process visual material and derive information out of them. As a result people with a high visualization IQ find it easier to comprehend information and communicate it to others. This section of the IQ tests includes 1. 2. 3. Stringing separate yet related pieces of information. Picking out identical things from a collection. Identifying the odd one out.

View Sample Questions Classification Skills This measures your ability to group items based on some criteria. It examines whether you have a conceptual understanding of the relationships between them. Classification skills enable you to piece together relevant data and make sense out of the whole. View Sample Questions

Logical Reasoning Skills Logical thinking is the ability to extract deductions from supplied information. Strong logical reasoning helps you in lateral thinking puzzles. You need a good understanding of cause and effect relationships. Generally speaking logic skills make divergent thinkers and have proven to be highly useful in our daily lives. View Sample Questions Pattern Recognition Skills Amongst all mental abilities this type of intelligence is said to have the highest correlation with the general intelligence factor. This is primarily because pattern recognition is the ability to see order in a chaotic environment; Patterns can be found in ideas, words, symbols and images and pattern recognition is a key ally of your potential in logical, verbal, numerical and spatial abilities.

Sample Questions for Verbal Intelligence

1. Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits. "FADLOFDI" A. B. C. D. city fruit flower vegetable

Correct answer: C. flower (DAFFODIL) Explanation: By rearranging "FADLOFDI", we get "DAFFODIL" which is a flower.

2.

Find the answer that best matches the stem pair in the analogy. SEDATIVE :: DROWSINESS A. B. C. D. E. epidemic : contagiousness vaccine : virus laxative : drug anesthetic : numbness therapy : psychosis

Correct answer: D. anesthetic : numbness Explanation:It is a cause-to-effect relationship. Just as a sedative causes drowsiness, an anesthetic causes numbness.

3.

Find the answer that best completes the analogy.

FRUGAL : MISERLY :: RASH : ? A. B. C. D. E. arrogant profligate spendthrift foolhardy polite

Correct answer: foolhardy Explanation: Just like "frugal" is synonymous with "miserly behavior", similarly "foolhardy" is a synonym for "rash".

4.

Which one of the sets of letters below can be arranged into a five letter English word. A. a t r u n B. p o d e b C. t e c a r D. m o h a t E. e t l r n Correct answer:t e c a r (cater)

5.

Which is the missing letter?

E B G F

C A B B

O B N ?

Correct answer: L Explanation: Convert each letter to its numerical equivalent in the alphabet e.g. the letter "C" is assigned the number "3". Afterwards, for each row, multiply the numerical equivalents of the first two columns in order to calculate the letter in the third column.

6.

Identify the pair, one word from each group, that is closest in meaning (match the column)

Group A crude light

Group B top raw

stairs

ignite

A. B. C. D. E.

crude and raw crude and top light and ignite stairs and top light and raw

Correct answer: A. crude and raw Explanation: crude and raw,imply the same message and can be used as synonyms.

Sample Questions for Mathematical Ability

1. Which number should come next in this series? 10, 17, 26, 37, ? A. B. C. D. 46 52 50 56

Correct answer: C. 50 Explanation: Beginning with 3, each number in the series is a square of the succeeding no. plus 1. 3^2 +1 = 10 4^2 +1 = 17 5^2 +1 = 26 6^2 +1 = 37 7^2 +1 = 50 (missing no.)

2.

Which number should replace the question mark "?"

17 13 6 10

8 7 12 6

5 5 6 4

5 4 3 ?

A. B. C. D.

4 5 6 7

Correct answer: A. 4 Explanation: For each row the sum of the first two columns is equal to the multiple of the last two columns

3.

If 10 people can do a piece of work in 5 days, working 2 hours a day, how long will 2 people take to do the same work, working 5 hours a day? A. 8 B. 5 C. 10 D. 12 Correct answer: C. 10 Explanation: People 1 / ( no. of days x time in hours)

Sample Questions for Spatial Reasoning

1. Which of the following cubes can you build by assembling the parts given below?

A.

B.

C.

D.

E. Correct answer: C

Explanation: Close examination reveals that it has the individual colors of the unit cube in the right numbers organized in a fashion that is feasible from the given parts.

2.

If you begin to fold along the dotted line, which of the following figures would follow the figure given below?

A. B. C.

D. Correct answer: C Explanation: It is deducible by imagining, folding the given figure along the dotted line.

3.

Which of the figures will you consider fit to continue the series below?

A.

B.

C. Correct answer: A

Explanation: Consider the direction chart and analyze the problem. The middle leaf of the first figure of the question points 'North'. The middle leaf of second figure points 'South-West', while that of the third figure points to the 'East'. The middle leaf of the fourth figure points 'North-West', so in order to continue the series the middle leaf of the next figure should point 'South'. Hence A is the correct answer. Take a PhD certified IQ test and find out your IQ in just 20 mins.

Sample Questions for Visual Skills

1. Select the figure that is missing from the collection below:

Correct answer: D

Explanation: Explanation: All the figures provided in the options are present in the 'collection' except for D which at first sight might seem similar to the figure in the first column-second row object, but close examination would reveal that it has 5 teeth instead of 4 teeth present in the afore-mentioned figure belonging to the collection.

2. Choose the odd one out.

o o

Correct answer: C

Explanation: In all of the above spirals there are 3 turns except the figure in option C which sports 4 turns, counted from origin to the tail.

3. Select the figure which is the odd one out?

Correct answer: C

Explanation: All the above figures have dark lines adjacent to the triangle on either side, except the figure in option C, which has one dark line misplaced.

4. Which of the following figures is the odd one out?

Correct answer: D

Explanation: Positioning oneself on the spout of the above pitchers, one would notice that the pattern of circles travels from left to right except in the pitcher shown in Option D, where the pattern travels from right to left.

5. How many four sided shapes does this diagram have?

o o o o

12-15 16-21 22-30 30-35

Correct answer: C

Explanation: On counting the number of individual quadrilaterals and clubbed quadrilaterals by combining one or more elementary ones, one would arrive at the answer.

Sample questions for Logical Reasoning

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1. At a conference, 12 members shook hands with each other before & after the meeting. How many total number of hand shakes occurred? A. 100 B. 132 C. 145 D. 144 E. 121 Correct answer: 132 Explanation: The first person shook hands with 11 remaining people, the second person also shook hands with 11 people, but we count 10, as the hand shake with the first person has already been counted. Then add 9 for the third person, 8 for the fourth one & proceeding in this fashion we get: 11 + 10 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 66. Hence 66 hand shakes took place before & 66 after the meeting, for a total of 132.

2.

The day after the day after tomorrow is four days before Monday. What day is it today? A. A. Monday B. B. Tuesday C. C. Wednesday D. D. Thursday E. E. Friday Correct answer: A. Monday Explanation:Four days before Monday is Thursday, simply because four days after Thursday is Monday. Besides, day after the day after tomorrow is Thursday only if present day is Monday.

3.

A fisherman has 5 fishes (namely A, B, C,D, E) each having a different weight. A. (i) A weighs twice as much as B. B. (ii) B weighs four and a half times as much as C. C. (iii)C weighs half as much as D. D. (iv) D weighs half as much as E. E. (v) E weighs less than A but more than C. Which of the following is the lightest? F. G. H. I. J. (i) A (ii) B (iii)C (iv) D (v) E

Correct answer: (iii) C Explanation: On logical interpretation of the given statements one can arrive at the following conclusion: A>B>E>D>C in order of decreasing weight. Hence C is the lightest of all the given fishes.

4.

In the above problem, E is lighter in weight than which of the following pairs? A. (i) B,D B. (ii)D,C C. (iii)A,D D. (iv)B,C E. (v)A,B Correct answer:(v) A,B Explanation: On logical interpretation of the given statements one can arrive at the following conclusion: A>B>E>D>C in order of decreasing weight. Hence, it can be seen that E is the lighter than A and B.

5.

6121135 is to flame as 21215120 is to ? A. A. voice B. B. bald C. C. bloat D. D. castle Correct answer: C. bloat Explanation: 6,12,1,13,5 each number in the break up signifies the corresponding letter in the alphabet. (viz. 6>f, 12->l...etc.) Similarly 2,12,15,1,20 which signifies bloat.

6.

Forest is to tree as tree is to ? A. A. plant B. B. leaf C. C. branch D. D. mangrove Correct answer: B. leaf Explanation: As forest houses several trees, a tree has many leaves. Branches is a close choice but it is incorrect as all tress do not have branches.