Free IQ Test

“IQ test” is the entry-page name. The current form is not an official Raven assessment, a Mensa admission test or a comprehensive Wechsler intelligence assessment; one visual task also cannot encompass verbal comprehension, memory, processing speed, creativity or real-world problem-solving ability.

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Allow about 20 minutes, use a device that displays the diagrams and options clearly, and minimise interruptions. These 20 minutes are an estimate, not an intelligence threshold or an indication that faster means smarter. Follow the actual question-page instructions for answering and submitting.

To observe your independent performance, answer on your own without search, AI solutions or other people's hints. Assisted scores reflect different conditions and cannot be compared directly with independent attempts. If diagrams do not display, you are noticeably fatigued or interruptions persist, address those problems first rather than treating the affected result as your ability ceiling.

Matrix reasoning involves comparing relationships across rows, columns or positions, then judging the missing part. Finding a seemingly plausible rule is only the beginning; check whether it also explains the other known positions.

The following teaching material was created for this page. It is not a question from this site's bank or a sample from any formal assessment. Arrows indicate direction and numbers indicate how many identical arrows appear.

First consider quantity alone: moving right adds 1 in each row, and moving down adds 1 in each column, so the missing cell should contain 5. Next consider direction: every row follows ↑, →, ↓, while direction stays constant within a column, so the missing cell should contain 5 ↓.

One tempting mistake is to say “the shapes always rotate clockwise”. This explains the change from left to right but not from top to bottom: the first column always points ↑ and does not rotate. Revise the rule to “direction changes horizontally and stays constant vertically”, rather than ignoring counterexamples to preserve a guess.

This example also shows that the correct quantity is not a complete answer: 5 → satisfies the quantity condition but violates the third column's direction condition. Work through four steps: describe observations, propose a rule, check every known position, and confirm that the answer satisfies every condition. Limited material may not exclude every imaginable rule; the teaching example uses a simple rule that consistently explains the known information, rather than proving someone's intelligence level.

On the current original 30-question form, a correct answer earns 1 point and an incorrect answer earns 0, with no deduction for wrong answers. The raw result is the correct-answer count, ranging from 0–30. It can also be written as R = Σ[pᵢ × I(item i correct)], with pᵢ = 1 for every item in the current form.

For example, 18 correct answers give a raw result of 18 and an accuracy of 18÷30×100% = 60%. This describes the proportion answered correctly on this form, not IQ 60 or the 60th percentile.

If a result includes item-group summaries, read them in terms of each group's correct-answer count and item count. Group names and percentages help organise this attempt's performance; they do not establish validated independent ability subscales or stable “spatial” or “numerical” intelligence types.

After you complete and submit all 30 questions, your free results include correct-answer count, answer accuracy, time taken and performance by item group. You can practise with separate original worked examples and save a TXT or Markdown summary. Item-group performance describes this attempt; it is not a set of validated independent abilities.

When eligible reference data is available, the result also shows a Beta reference score and a model-reference percentile, together with their reference source and version. The Beta reference score converts the number of correct answers using the current designed reference model, with a range of 73–145. For example, 5 correct answers give a score of 100, 10 give 110, 20 give 130, and 30 give 145. Other correct-answer counts are converted within their respective intervals and rounded to the nearest integer for display.

The model-reference percentile is calculated from the designed reference distribution and differs from answer accuracy. For example, 8 correct answers map to a Beta reference score of 106 and a model-reference percentile of 65.54%, while answer accuracy is approximately 26.7%. These figures describe different measures and are not interchangeable. This model-based proportion is not a ranking among actual test takers or a population percentile. See IQ Scores and Interpretation Limits for the calculation details.

Ask separately what the questions cover, how scoring works, which ages and languages are supported, how the reference sample was obtained, whether scores are reliable, and whether evidence supports the judgment you want to make. Questions resembling classic intelligence puzzles, an open formula or numbers on a scale centred around 100 cannot establish these points by themselves.

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing emphasise that validity concerns specific score interpretations and uses. Exploring your reasoning process requires different evidence from childhood educational placement, clinical assessment or other consequential decisions. Testing standards

This page is for experiencing visual reasoning tasks, understanding this attempt's performance and identifying questions for reflection. Without clear age validation and relevant norms, do not use it for childhood intelligence assessment or cross-age rankings; the result is not a Mensa qualification, hiring credential, school assessment or diagnostic certificate. If formal documentation is needed, check which instruments, language versions, practitioners and procedures the receiving institution accepts.

To understand this site's tool and its conditions of use, read the FermatMind IQ test guide. For questions about correct answers, answer accuracy, Beta reference score and model-reference percentile, read IQ scores and interpretation limits. To improve rule checking and review habits, read IQ test practice and review.

First record one testable question, such as “Did I choose an answer after checking only the first row?”, then observe whether it happens again on entirely new practice material. Repeating the same questions can increase familiarity and answer memory; a score increase alone does not prove an increase in general intelligence. A single low score likewise does not prove a lack of potential; consider real learning performance, response conditions and support needs.