IQ Practice Test: Integrated Reasoning (50 Questions)

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Ready for the Integrated Reasoning test?

Work on your own and choose the best answer for each question. You can move backwards and forwards, review unanswered questions, and finish when you are ready.

50Questions

100Maximum marks

40Suggested minutes

Name (optional) Age group (optional; not used to calculate an IQ score)

Please note: This is an IQ-style reasoning activity, not a clinically validated or standardized IQ test. Your result is a practice score, not an official IQ score.

Each correct answer earns 2 marks; there is no negative marking.
Choose one answer for each question.
A timer is provided as a guide; you can still submit after it reaches zero.
For the fairest result, avoid calculators, search engines and help from others.

About this integrated reasoning test

This test brings several skills together. Questions on logic, word relationships, numbers, everyday problems and spatial patterns are mixed, which is closer to what a full reasoning assessment feels like. Switching between types is part of the challenge.

How to get the most from it

Take it after you have tried a few of the focused tests. Keep a steady pace of roughly one minute per question, and mark any question you skip so that you return to it before you finish.

What this test practises

Most real exams and many selection tests mix question types, so you must decide quickly what kind of problem you are facing and which method fits. This test practises that decision as much as the reasoning itself. Psychologists call the effort of changing from one kind of task to another task switching, and most people are a little slower straight after a switch. That is why a mixed test can feel harder than a test where every question is alike.

A worked example

Three questions from three different areas appear one after another. Label each one in a few seconds, then choose the method.

Numbers: Which is the odd one out: 16, 25, 36, 48, 49? Answer: 48. The others are square numbers (4², 5², 6² and 7²).
Words: Pen is to writer as brush is to ___? Answer: painter. A writer uses a pen; a painter uses a brush.
Logic: All the books on the shelf are paperbacks. This book is not a paperback. What follows? Answer: the book is not on the shelf.

Common mistakes and how to avoid them

Treating the next question as if it were the same type as the last one.

Spending several minutes on one hard item and leaving easy marks unanswered at the end.

Forgetting to return to the questions you skipped. Mark them so you can find them again.

Using one method for every question instead of choosing the one that suits it.

The skills in this test overlap with the ideas in Types of Intelligence: Fluid, Crystallised and Multiple Intelligences, which explains how reasoning with new problems differs from using knowledge you have already learned.

What your score does and does not mean

Your mark out of 100 shows how you did on these 50 questions on one day. It is not an IQ number, because a real IQ score comes from a standardised test given and interpreted by a qualified psychologist and compared with a large norm group. Use the section scores to choose what to practise, and retake the test after a week or two to see progress. Tiredness, noise and stress change results, so one low score is not a verdict on your ability.

Sources and evidence

Neisser, U. et al. (1996). Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51(2), 77-101.

Deary, I. J., Penke, L. and Johnson, W. (2010). The neuroscience of human intelligence differences. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 201-211.

Raven, J. (2000). The Raven’s Progressive Matrices: Change and stability over culture and time. Cognitive Psychology, 41(1), 1-48.

IQ Practice Test: Integrated Reasoning

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