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Just booked a MENSA test - how to prepare?

So I decided to book myself for a nearby MENSA exam on the 11th of October, just for the hell of it. I had a look at some IQ tests recently and I did a fair bit better in them than I last recall, and my parents have always suspected that I've had an above average IQ - so I thought, why not?

Although I'm aware that the MENSA exams aren't like GCSE or A-level exam papers in the same way that you could do lots of them and then do really well in the final exam - but I get the impression that there are certain types of question that can come up.

I would like to ask if anyone else out there has also gone through the experience of doing a MENSA test, whether successful or not, and how to best prepare for them?
Reply 2
Turn around three times whie balancing a banana on your head, then you should proceed to jump off the nearest cliff.
Reply 3
Don't try to study for it, that defeats the point of an iq test.
Maybe just do a couple online to understand vaguely how it works, but of you study for it then it's not accurate.


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Original post by Inazuma
Don't try to study for it, that defeats the point of an iq test.
Maybe just do a couple online to understand vaguely how it works, but of you study for it then it's not accurate.


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Exactly.

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Reply 5
If someone is working on spacial problems or maths where patterns tend to be or are yo be discovered and then takes a test wouldn't that be the same? Wouldn't that mean that those prone to work on such problems and or be interested in them more achieve greater scores ?

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