AMERICAN MENSA | How smart are you?

What: Society for high-IQ individuals.
Qualifications: Must score in the top 2 percent (98th percentile) on an accepted admission test.
Membership: More than 51,000 households in the United States.
SOME ACCEPTED TESTS
Stanford Binet IQ Test -- 132
Cattell IQ Test -- 148
SAT or CEEB (scored before 9/30/74) -- 1300
SAT or CEEB (scored from 9/30/74 through 1/31/94) -- 1250 *
ACT Composite (scored before 9/89) -- 29 *
MENSA IN THE VALLEY
Local chapter: East Central Ohio Mensa (ECOM)
Chapter activities: Monthly meetings and newsletter
Testing information: ecom.us.mensa.org.
Register for the next test: (800) 66-MENSA.
ABOUT THOSE TESTS
IQ scores generally level out at about age 10 and will not change much after that.
An IQ test is useful only when the name of the test is provided because different tests have different norm values.
Although online tests can give an indication, only a test administered by a licensed psychologist will provide a truly accurate IQ reading.
There is really no way to study for an IQ test.
A high IQ is not necessarily an indicator of wealth, ambition or career success. It simply means an individual has higher-than-average reasoning abilities.
* SAT or CEEB tests scored after 1/31/94 and ACT composite tests scored after 9/89 are not accepted.
Source: American Mensa