Which earlier test scores qualify you for Mensa, and which ones are too late

0 The short answer

An earlier score qualifies you for Mensa only if it comes from an accepted intelligence test, given by a neutral and qualified examiner under standard conditions, and if the date and the minimum score on the official list are both met. American Mensa lists about 200 tests, and on the list read on November 4, 2026 the SAT counts only for tests taken before January 31, 1994, the ACT composite only before September 1989 and the GRE only before September 30, 2001, while a Wechsler Full Scale IQ of 130, given in full, carries no date limit on the list. British Mensa asks instead for evidence of an IQ in the top 2 percent, a full educational psychologist's report or documentary evidence of a professionally administered IQ test, for residents of the United Kingdom and Ireland. ACIS is one concrete option for an adult who holds no qualifying score (Quick, 25 dollars and about 45 minutes; Optimized, 35 dollars and about 110 minutes; Full Scale, 59 dollars and about 175 minutes, prices read on November 4, 2026), but it is not accepted by any high IQ society and it does not predict a pass, so it can show where you stand before you pay a fee and it cannot replace a Mensa session.

1 Which earlier scores count as evidence for Mensa?

A score counts as Mensa evidence when it comes from a recognized intelligence test, was given by a neutral and qualified third party in a traditional testing setting, and is proved by a document that Mensa can read as an original. American Mensa states these conditions on its qualifying test scores page (read November 4, 2026). The page says the organization accepts scores from about 200 standardized tests, that often a person has taken an acceptable test at some earlier time in life, and that all documentation must be the original or a notarized copy. Unsupervised, electronic or internet based tests are not accepted, and a test with the word achievement in its title generally is not either. The rule sets a practical order of questions: was the test one of the listed intelligence or aptitude tests, was it supervised, was the score at or above the minimum for that test and that date, and can you obtain the paper.

The date rule is the part readers miss. American Mensa says the acceptance date refers to when the test was taken, not to when you join. A person who took the SAT in 1991 and applies in 2026 is judged against the 1991 rule. The same page adds that scores do not expire as long as they meet the admission requirements, so an old result is not rejected for being old. It is accepted or rejected for being the wrong kind of test, or for falling outside the date range that Mensa has decided to honor. Mensa also reserves the right to alter scores as tests are renormed, which is a polite way of saying that the minimum for a test can move.

The top 2 percent is the idea behind every row. Mensa International's home page says an applicant must reach a score that places them within the upper 2 percent of the general population on a Mensa-approved test. Each national Mensa then states what evidence it accepts: American Mensa publishes a list of tests with minimum scores, and British Mensa describes the kinds of document it accepts. That is why the two can differ, and why a score that is enough in one country may not be accepted in the other. The page on how to join Mensa walks through the whole route in several countries, and this page stays with the narrower question of which earlier scores are evidence.

A second distinction matters for adults who do not remember what they took. Evidence is not the same as a score you recall. American Mensa asks that results show the full test name, the score and the percentile rank, on institutional letterhead, signed by the psychologist, with the psychologist's state license number. School records need a seal, a school district letterhead report or a signed guidance office letter. Armed forces records need a notarized copy or a record sent from the National Personnel Records Center. If a score you remember cannot be turned into one of those papers, it is a lead for a records request and not yet evidence.

2 What does the top 2 percent mean on scales with different standard deviations?

The top 2 percent is one fixed place in the distribution of ability, and it becomes 130, 132 or 148 only because tests report scores on scales with different standard deviations. Mensa's supervisory psychologist explains the arithmetic in an article reprinted on a local group page of American Mensa (page undated, read November 4, 2026). For Mensa an applicant must reach the 98th percentile on a standardized, supervised intelligence test or equivalent, which the article describes as about two standard deviations above the mean. On the Stanford-Binet and many school tests the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 16, so the qualifying score is 132. On the Cattell IIIB and the old Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 24, so Mensa requires 148, which the article calls exactly the same 98th percentile as 132 on the other tests. The article does not mention a standard deviation of 15, but the same two-deviation logic gives 130 on the scale that the page on why standard deviation 15 matters describes, and American Mensa's list shows 130 for the Wechsler scales.

A reader can see why a bare IQ number cannot be compared across tests. A 148 on a scale with a standard deviation of 24 is the same rarity as a 130 on a scale with a standard deviation of 15, and a 132 on a scale with a standard deviation of 16 is the same again. The page on converting a percentile to an IQ and the tool that tells you how rare a given IQ is do this conversion for any standard deviation, and the page on why you cannot average IQ and percentile explains why the percentile is the only common currency.

There is a small piece of arithmetic that the Mensa articles round away, and it is our own. In a normal distribution the exact 98th percentile lies 2.054 standard deviations above the mean, which is 130.8 on a scale with a standard deviation of 15, 132.9 on a scale with a standard deviation of 16 and 149.3 on a scale with a standard deviation of 24. A score exactly two deviations above the mean, which is what Mensa lists, sits at about the 97.7th percentile, so the published minimums are a little more generous than a strict 98th percentile would be. Nothing in a Mensa decision turns on that gap, because Mensa applies its own listed minimum, and a reader should use the listed number and not our decimals. The point is only that the 130, 132 and 148 are rounded doors, and that a person at 129 on a scale of 15 is not meaningfully different from a person at 130.

3 Which American tests and minimum scores does American Mensa list?

American Mensa groups its accepted tests into school district tests, college prep tests, private psychologist tests and military tests, and for most of them the minimum is a score that sits at the 98th percentile on that test's own scale. The examples below are a selection from the official list read on November 4, 2026, not the whole list, which runs to dozens of rows with their own date ranges. Read the official page for the test you hold, because it is the only authority and it changes. The aim here is to show the pattern: a clinical or school ability test usually qualifies at its published 98th percentile score, and an exam taken for admission or hiring usually qualifies only inside a closed range of dates.

Several lessons sit in that table. The first is that the clinical tests are the durable ones. A Wechsler Full Scale IQ of 130 from any edition, or a Stanford-Binet at its listed minimum, does not carry an end date on the list, although American Mensa notes that it may adjust scores as tests are renormed. The second is that the college and military rows are fenced by dates. The list does not say why each range ends where it does, and this page does not guess. The third is that a Wechsler score has to come from the full test: the General Ability Index is accepted only for the WISC-IV, WISC-V and WAIS-IV, and only when two index scores differ by one and a half standard deviations or more, as the prior evidence page states. The page on the General Ability Index explains what that composite is and why it can differ from the Full Scale IQ, and the page on gaps between index scores shows how common a large gap is.

A fourth lesson is about what is missing. The list as read on November 4, 2026 showed no entry for a Wonderlic score or for a GMAT score, and the FAQ says that if your test is not listed you should contact the admissions department. A missing row is not a rejection and not an approval. It means the answer is not on the public page, and the sensible step is to ask, not to assume. The page on converting a Wonderlic score to an IQ explains why a conversion from that test would be an estimate even where it is published.

4 Do SAT, ACT and GRE scores qualify for Mensa?

An SAT, ACT or GRE score qualifies for American Mensa only if the test was taken inside a closed range of old dates, and a score from a recent sitting of any of the three does not qualify. The official list read on November 4, 2026 gives these ranges. The SAT counts at 1300 before September 30, 1974, and at 1250 from September 30, 1974 to January 31, 1994. The ACT counts only as a Composite of 29 and only before September 1989. The GRE counts at 1250 on the quantitative and verbal sections for tests before May 1994, and at 1875 when the analytical section is added for tests from May 1994 to September 30, 2001. The list also carries the PSAT before May 1993 and the CEEB before September 30, 1977. A person who took the SAT in 1998 or the GRE in 2005 holds a score that American Mensa does not list for those dates, whatever the number was.

The answer to the search question "does SAT qualify for Mensa" is therefore a date question first and a score question second. A 1300 on an SAT taken in 1992 sits inside the date range and above the 1250 minimum. The same number on a test taken in 1998 is not on the list at all. The page does not explain why it stops where it stops, and we do not guess at Mensa's reasons. What the research literature does show is that the SAT is related to general ability but is not an intelligence test with its own norms. Frey and Detterman, in Scholastic Assessment or g? (Psychological Science, 2004), correlated SAT scores with a general ability measure extracted from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in 917 participants of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and found a correlation of .82, or .86 corrected for nonlinearity. In a second study of 104 undergraduates, revised and recentered SAT scores correlated .483 with Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices, or .72 corrected for restricted range. The authors concluded that the SAT is mainly a test of g, and they supplied equations for converting SAT scores to estimated IQs. A correlation of .82 means the two measures share about 67 percent of their variance (our arithmetic, squaring the published value), which is a strong relation and still leaves a third of the variation unexplained. An SAT score is therefore a sign of ability and an imprecise stand-in for an IQ. The page on how the SAT relates to IQ covers the correlation and the limits of any conversion in full, and the pages on the ACT against IQ and the GRE against IQ do the same for those exams.

The LSAT is the one college exam on the list that has a percentile rule after its cutoff year. American Mensa lists a score of 662 for tests before 1982, and a total percentile rank of 95 afterward, and the original must be mailed from the Law School Admission Council, because printouts and PDFs are not accepted. The qualifying score FAQ explains the lower percentile: the LSAT's top 5 percent is used because the people who sit the exam are not a normally distributed sample, and they typically have three to four years of college. In other words, ranking in the top 5 percent of LSAT takers is a more selective position than the same rank would be among everyone, which is why American Mensa sets the bar at the 95th percentile rank and not at the 98th. The page on the LSAT against IQ is the place for that comparison.

5 Which scores does Mensa not accept?

Mensa does not accept scores from unsupervised or internet based tests, from tests that measure achievement, from the ASVAB, from blended results or from its own practice material, and no online IQ product is accepted whatever its price or its norms. American Mensa's prior evidence page states several of these rules in one place: tests must be given by a neutral, qualified third party in a traditional setting, unsupervised, electronic or internet based tests are not accepted, and almost any test with achievement in the title is not accepted. The qualifying score FAQ adds that achievement tests such as the Iowa and California Tests of Basic Skills do not count, and that the accepted tests are generally aptitude or ability tests. Both pages say blended scores are not accepted, and the FAQ uses the SAT as its example: a result assembled from more than one test administration cannot be combined into a qualifying one.

The ASVAB deserves its own sentence because military service is a common source of old scores. American Mensa lists it as not accepted and describes the newer military tests as vocational aptitude tests, while older military tests (the AFQT, the Army General Classification Test and the Navy General Classification Test) count only for dates before October 1980. A veteran who holds an ASVAB result should read the page on the ASVAB against IQ, which sets out the correlation and why a conversion is an estimate, and then decide whether a Mensa session is worth the fee.

The other exclusions are about the paper, not the test. A Wechsler score from a short form or from a screening does not qualify, since the list requires the test to be given in full. A score reported only as an index, for example a Verbal Comprehension Index of 135 with no Full Scale IQ, is not a Full Scale IQ. A General Ability Index counts only under the narrow condition described earlier. A score without the examiner's license number, without the full test name or without a name that matches the application is incomplete, and the FAQ says that when names differ you should include proof such as a marriage license, court records or a notarized Social Security card. If your name changed, the proof is part of the application and not an afterthought.

Practice and indicator material also does not qualify, and this is the point where many searches for a "Mensa qualification test" end up. The Mensa Home Test that British Mensa sells is described on its IQ testing page (read November 4, 2026) as a 45 minute assessment that gives an indicative score of how you might do in a full IQ test, and the page does not say it qualifies you for membership. British Mensa's free Online Workout gives an indication of performance but no IQ score. Neither one is evidence. The same is true of every free online quiz, every app that returns an IQ number after a few minutes and every normed online battery, ACIS included. The page on how an official IQ test is defined separates the routes that produce a document an institution recognizes from the ones that produce a report only you can use.

6 What does British Mensa accept as prior evidence?

British Mensa accepts evidence of an IQ in the top 2 percent in the form of a full educational psychologist's report or documentary evidence of a professionally administered IQ test, but unlike American Mensa it does not publish, on the pages read for this article, a list of tests with minimum scores. The IQ testing page of British Mensa (read November 4, 2026) names the two accepted kinds of document, gives a fee of 49 pounds for the prior evidence assessment, says applications are normally assessed in four to six weeks, and says applicants must live in the United Kingdom or Ireland. It adds that Mensa is unable to test anyone under 10 and a half, so younger applicants must use prior evidence, a detail that does not apply to the adults this page is written for. The membership page describes the route as evidence of an IQ in the top two percent and says you can alternatively qualify with a qualifying score on the Mensa Supervised IQ test.

Two cautions follow. First, the pages read do not say which tests or which minimum scores British Mensa uses, so the American list cannot be carried across. A Wechsler Full Scale IQ of 130 is a sensible reading of the top 2 percent, because on the scale of the Wechsler tests 130 sits two standard deviations above the mean, but the British pages do not state it and this page does not claim that they do. If your evidence is a psychologist's report, send the report and let British Mensa apply its own rule. If your evidence is a college or military exam, expect that it will not be accepted, since the British pages describe a professionally administered IQ test or a full educational psychologist's report and nothing broader.

Second, the pages do not say whether the prior evidence channel is open on the day you apply. The membership page and the testing page both show a way to submit evidence, but neither states a status, so treat it as unknown and confirm it with the membership team before paying. The fee and the time are also not the whole cost: adult membership is listed from 68 pounds a year, with a youth rate of 50 pounds for members under 19 and a joint rate of 36 pounds for additional members in the same household. A reader outside the United Kingdom and Ireland cannot use this route, and the guide to joining Mensa elsewhere covers other countries.

The British pages are also explicit about the routes that do not need prior evidence. The Supervised IQ Test is 49 pounds and lasts two and a quarter hours. The Online Supervised IQ Test, which the page describes as a fully proctored, secure online environment, is 49 pounds and takes an hour and a half. Both are Mensa's own supervised sessions, which is why they qualify while an unsupervised online quiz does not. The lesson is the same as in the United States: the document or the session has to come from a supervised administration.

7 How do you submit evidence to American Mensa, and what does it cost?

You submit evidence to American Mensa through a user profile on its site, by one of three delivery routes, and the evaluation is billed separately from the annual dues that follow admission. The prior evidence page (read November 4, 2026) says you must create a user profile to submit scores. You may send original documents yourself, send a notarized copy, or have the testing service send scores directly to American Mensa; if the service will send them only to you, the page says you can forward them unopened. Mail goes to the Testing and Admissions Manager of American Mensa in Hurst, Texas. The page warns that unencrypted personal email carries a privacy risk, so a mailed copy is the more cautious route for sensitive reports. Originals are returned only if you include a self-addressed stamped envelope; otherwise the documentation is shredded. Documents that arrive before an application are filed by last name until you submit one.

The FAQ adds the notarization detail: to get your documents back, the notary should write a jurat stating that the copy is a true and exact copy of the original presented. It also lists the agencies that hold original score records, including ETS for the GRE, the College Board for the SAT, ACT for the ACT, LSAC for the LSAT and the National Personnel Records Center for military tests, which turns a forgotten score into a records request. Evaluation of prior scores, the page says, should take two to four weeks.

The honest gap in that table is the American prior evidence fee. American Mensa's join page gives annual dues of 107 dollars, and its testing page gives 60 dollars for Local Group testing and 99 dollars for Private testing, which is held at more than 400 approved facilities, requires photo identification and allows one test or battery every eight weeks. But none of the pages read gives a regular price for the prior evidence review, and the prior evidence page carried a promotional banner on the day it was read. This page prints no promotional price, and the reader should confirm the amount at checkout. Local group pages and search summaries quote other numbers, some of them older, and they are not official sources. The testing page says promotional discounts appear in the shopping cart during checkout, so the amount you pay may differ from the regular one.

One more rule shapes what you learn from the result. In an announcement dated December 10, 2020, American Mensa said that starting January 1 the most detailed information it would share with prospective members about Admission Test scores would be whether they qualify, and that candidates at or above the 98th percentile through prior evidence, local group testing or private testing would be notified and invited to join. The announcement gives the reason as a review of the testing program prompted by revised American Psychological Association guidelines, Texas law and psychologists' ethics rules. This answers the search for a Mensa admission test raw score converted to an IQ. American Mensa does not publish such a conversion, and since that change a candidate is told whether the score qualifies, not the score itself. The page on the Mensa score you need on an IQ test covers how to estimate where you would land, as an estimate and never as a Mensa result.

8 How do the real options compare when you hold no qualifying score?

When no earlier score qualifies, the real options differ mainly in who supervises the session, who the score is compared with and whether the result is a document an institution can accept. The table below puts the routes side by side using only figures read on official pages on November 4, 2026. A clinician's fee is not on any page this article could cite, so the table does not invent one, and the page on the routes that count as an official IQ test carries the costs of clinical testing in more detail.

ACIS prices were read on November 4, 2026 and can change. Every form reports a Full Scale IQ with its 95 percent confidence interval, one payment covers a form with no subscription, breaks are allowed, progress is saved between subtests, and the buyer has 30 days to finish.

9 What do the qualifying tests measure, and which ACIS subtests sample the same abilities?

The tests Mensa accepts are not one skill. They sample general ability through several broad abilities, and the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) framework names those abilities precisely. In CHC terms the main ones are fluid reasoning (Gf), comprehension and knowledge (Gc), quantitative knowledge (Gq), visual processing (Gv), working memory capacity (Gwm) and processing speed (Gs). The page on the CHC model defines each, and the page on what IQ measures explains how a Full Scale IQ summarizes them. A Wechsler Full Scale IQ is a composite of several of these abilities. Frey and Detterman concluded that the SAT is mainly a test of g, which is a different thing from a battery that reports separate abilities. The distinction is useful when you wonder why a long-ago admission test sits on Mensa's list while a short modern quiz does not: the list is built around supervised, norm-referenced instruments with a documented population, and not around abilities alone.

ACIS cannot stand in for any of these tests, and it does not claim to. What it offers is a look at the same families of ability, subtest by subtest, against adult norms. The Matrix Reasoning page describes visual pattern problems that sample abstraction and nonverbal reasoning, an ACIS fluid reasoning subtest. The Vocabulary page describes definition questions that measure verbal comprehension and word knowledge. Similarities compares concepts to measure abstract verbal reasoning, Digit Span measures working memory with forward and backward digit recall and presents its items as audio, and Coding measures processing speed by matching symbols to numbers as fast as possible. The page on processing speed testing describes the speed domain and the page on cognitive ability tests places this kind of battery among the others.

Describing the abilities this way also corrects a common misreading. A person with a strong verbal profile and a weak speed index can hold a Full Scale IQ that is solid and an index pattern that is uneven, and the Mensa lists look only at the composite or at the single score the test reports. The page on the cognitive domains lays out the six indices ACIS reports, and nothing on this page suggests that an index pattern changes a Mensa decision.

10 How can you check an old score in a few minutes?

You can check an old score in five questions that need no special knowledge, and each one maps to a rule on the official page. First, name the test exactly. The list is organized by test and edition, and a Wechsler score is not a Woodcock-Johnson score. Second, find the date it was taken, because the SAT, ACT, GRE, PSAT and military rows are fenced by dates and the date is the date of the sitting, not the date of the letter that reported it. Third, find the kind of score. Mensa lists a Full Scale IQ, a composite or a percentile rank, and a subscore or an index alone is a different thing. Fourth, ask who gave it. A school psychologist's report on district letterhead, a licensed clinical psychologist's report with the signature and license number, a school record with a seal or an armed forces record are the document types the FAQ names, while a self-administered online quiz is not. Fifth, compare the score with the minimum for that test and that date on the official page.

If the answers pass, ask for the paper. If they fail on the date or the test, the next step is not an appeal but a decision about a supervised session. If you are unsure whether your test is listed, the FAQ says to contact the admissions department, and it names the agencies that keep original records. The page on how an IQ score is converted into a percentile helps for a score that is not on the list, because the question Mensa asks is always the same: is this person in the top 2 percent of the people the test was normed on.

A person who is well above the line, for example at 140 on the scale where 130 is the minimum, can read the page on what an IQ of 140 means for the rarity of that position. A person within a few points of the line should read the next section before paying, because a few points are inside the error of a single score.

11 How should you read a score that sits near the line?

A score near the Mensa line is a measurement with error, from a scale that may have drifted since the test was normed, and so it does not tell you for certain which side of the line you stand on. Three ideas bear on it. A scaled score on a subtest, an index and a Full Scale IQ are different layers: a scaled score has a mean of 10, an index or Full Scale IQ has a mean of 100, and a percentile gives the share of the norm group at or below the score. The 95 percent confidence interval around any score is the range within which the person's true score is expected to fall most of the time, and a composite from many subtests is more precise than a single subtest, which is the general psychometric reason why Mensa and clinicians rely on batteries and not on one task. The page on how IQ scores are normed explains the norming idea and the page on reliability and validity explains precision.

The second idea is drift. The Flynn effect is the rise in intelligence test performance over time. Pietschnig and Voracek, in a formal meta-analysis of 271 independent samples covering almost 4 million participants from 31 countries across 1909 to 2013, estimated annual gains of 0.41 points for fluid, 0.30 for spatial, 0.28 for full-scale and 0.21 for crystallized IQ test performance, with stronger gains for adults than children and gains that have decreased in more recent decades. Those are population averages and not a correction for any person. Still, 0.28 points a year works out to about 8 points over 30 years (our arithmetic), which shows how an old norm can make a score look better than a current norm would. The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, APA and NCME, 2014) address the same problem. Standard 5.3 comments that a scale point defined as the mean of a reference population should no longer be read as average performance if the scale stays fixed and the population changes, and Standard 5.11 makes the publisher responsible for renorming a test in print often enough to keep interpretations accurate. This is why American Mensa reserves the right to alter scores as tests are renormed.

The third idea is the line itself. A cut score is a rule, and the Standards (Standard 5.21) ask that the rationale for a cut score be documented. Mensa documents its rule in terms of the top 2 percent, and a person at 129 on a scale with a standard deviation of 15 differs from a person at 130 by less than the error of a single sitting. If your old score is a point or two under the line, the useful options are a supervised session on a current test or a second set of evidence, not a belief that the number is wrong. The tool that gives the percentile for any IQ score is a quick way to see how little a point moves you.

12 Where ACIS sits, and what a buyer should do

ACIS is one commercial option for an adult who wants a normed picture of where they stand, it is sold by the publisher of this page, and its limits are as important as its features: it is online, unsupervised, not clinical, available in English only and not accepted for admission to any high IQ society. The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, APA and NCME, 2014) bear on how any score from this page should be read. Standard 6.10 asks that interpretations describe in simple language what a test covers, what scores represent and the precision of the scores, and Standards 5.3 and 5.11 above ask users to watch for scales that have drifted away from their norms. The APA Guidelines for Psychological Assessment and Evaluation (2020) add, in Guideline 8, that psychologists attend to the appropriate normative comparison, including the agedness of norms, and to standardized administration, which an unsupervised session by definition cannot guarantee. The ACIS research page says the test "is not intended for clinical diagnosis, hiring decisions, accommodation determinations or admission to high IQ societies". Read on that basis, an ACIS report cannot serve as Mensa evidence, cannot predict a pass and carries no endorsement from any society.

What ACIS can honestly offer is an adult-normed profile by index before you pay a society's fee. The technical manual documents the instrument. The Quick form costs 25 dollars and takes about 45 minutes for six subtests in three domains. The Optimized form costs 35 dollars and takes about 110 minutes for 13 subtests in five domains. The Full Scale form costs 59 dollars and takes about 175 minutes for all 20 subtests in six domains. These prices were read on November 4, 2026 and can change. The free trial needs no card, allows one trial per person, and opens five subtests when started from the Full Scale form: Digit Span, Alphanumeric Sequencing, Visual Sequence, Coding and Symbol Search. Finished trial subtests are kept if you later unlock a form that includes them. The guarantee is exactly this: "Full refund within 5 days if the report does not deliver the features described at checkout or a technical issue prevents you from accessing your results." Three subtests, Digit Span, Alphanumeric Sequencing and Arithmetic, present items as audio and need working sound.

Here is what to do. If you hold an old score, run the five-question check above and request the paper from the issuing agency, then submit it through the official page of the country where you live. If you hold nothing that qualifies, a supervised Mensa session is the route that counts, and the page on taking the Mensa session describes it. If you want to know before paying whether your profile is anywhere near the line, the page on the free IQ test explains what a free trial gives, and the guide to IQ tests for adults shows the other paths. If the societies with a higher bar interest you, the Triple Nine Society and the Prometheus Society publish their own rules, and the same date and supervision questions apply. If you take ACIS, use a quiet room on a device with working sound, with breaks between subtests, and treat the result as an observation about your profile and not a verdict on any application.

13 Sources Behind This Page

Every figure above is traceable to one of the following, and each is linked at the point where it is used. Mensa pages and the Pearson page were read on November 4, 2026 and can change, so confirm any minimum score, date range or fee on the official page before relying on it. The 67 percent of shared variance, the 8 points over 30 years, the exact 98th percentile values of 130.8, 132.9 and 149.3 and the 97.7th percentile for a score of two standard deviations are our own arithmetic on published figures and are labeled as such. No ACIS statistic is used.

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