IQ Test Questions

IQ questions would be found on IQ tests. These questions are intended to assess a variety of mental
abilities and skills, and therefore cover a wide range of different types of intelligence. Below are
some general examples of the types of questions that might be found on an IQ test:
 Analogies (mathematical and verbal)
 Pattern driven (spatial and mathematical)
 Classification
 Visual
 Spatial
 Logical
While those are the general areas that an IQ test might examine, it is useful to see more specific
questions. Here are a few test questions that could be encountered on an IQ test:
 Which number should come next in the pattern?
37, 34, 31, 28
Answer: 25, the numbers are decreasing by 3
 Find the answer that best completes the analogy:
Book is to Reading as Fork is to:
a. drawing
b. writing
c. stirring
d. eating
Answer: d.
 Find two words, one from each group, that are the closest in meaning:
Group A
talkative, job, ecstatic
Group B
angry, wind, loquacious
a. talkative and wind
b. job and angry
c. talkative and loquacious
d. ecstatic and angry
Answer: c. Talkative and Loquacious
 Which of the following can be arranged into a 5-letter English word?
a. H R G S T
b. R I L S A
c. T O O M T
d. W Q R G S
Answer: b. rails and c. motto
 What number best completes the analogy:
8:4 as 10:
a. 3
b. 7
c.24
d.5
The answer is 5 because 4 is half of 8, and 5 is half of 10.

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Other types of questions could be encountered as well. These questions could be any of the
following:
 Questions that show pictures of dice and ask which one is different.
 Questions with pictures of shapes in different positions and asked which one does not belong.
 Questions with pictures of Rubik's cubes asking for you to properly sequence the pictures.
 Questions with pictures of unfolded cubes with designs on each cube face asking which of the
choices is the image that the unfolded cube would be if it were folded.
 Questions with pictures of unfolded shapes like rectangular prisms and pyramids asking the test
taker to identify which 3-dimensional shape the unfolded paper would be once folded.
 Charts in which all boxes are filled with the numbers and the test taker is asked to identify what
number is in a missing blank.
 Images of overlapping shapes and the test taker must identify which diagram does not belong.
 Questions that require not only unscrambling a word but then identifying a category to which it
belongs.
 Questions that ask for identification of missing pieces.
 An image of a series of figures requiring the test taker to determine which comes next.
The number of questions you answer correctly is then used to score the test and provide a measure of
your intelligence.