Mensa International (MI) would like to thank Olav Hoel Dørum (creator of the test questions and scoring), Tedd Hansen (developer of the test engine and web pages), and Eivind Olsen (MI Director of Development and former Chair of Mensa Norway) for granting us permission to use their online practice IQ test.
“Mensa” means “table” in Latin, and the organisation was so named because Mensa is a round-table society where ethnicity, colour, creed, national origin, age, politics, educational and social background are all completely irrelevant. In fact, the only relevant qualification for membership is scoring within the upper 2% of the general population on an approved intelligence test. Mensa ...
How do I qualify for Mensa? Membership of Mensa is open to persons who have attained a score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test that has been properly administered and supervised.
American Mensa accepts scores from approximately 200 different standardized intelligence tests *. Often potential members have taken acceptable tests at other times in their lives and don’t realize they may already qualify for membership. Please note that all documentation must be the original or a notarized copy of the original. Review of your qualifying scores may be delayed if your ...
Mensa is an international society whose sole qualification for membership is a score in the top 2 percent of the general population on a standardized intelligence test. The word mensa translates "table" in Latin; similarly, mens means "mind" and mensis means "month." The name "Mensa" is reminiscent of "mind, table, month," which suggests a monthly meeting of great minds around a table.