14 What is the Mensa test like? The Mensa Workout!
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This article is from the Mensa FAQ, by Phil Hill phil@miracle.com with numerous contributions by others.
14 What is the Mensa test like? The Mensa Workout!
Exercise those little, grey cells with these mental calisthenics and see
if you can match wits with Mensa. This test consists of questions
distributed with two different Mensa pamphlets. Give yourself an one
hour time limit on this test.
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1. Which of the lettered designs best completes the following sequence?
[o] [.] (o)
A: (.)
B: (o)
C: [.]
D: [o]
2. Sally likes 225 but not 224; she likes 900 but not 800; she likes 144
but not 145. Does she like 1600 or 1700?
3. Only one other word can be made from the letters of INSATIABLE. Can
you find it?
4. Put the appropriate plus or minus signs between the numbers, in the
correct places, so that the sum total will equal 1.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 1
5. What is the word coiled inside this circle?
T P
I U
A N
L S
6. If two typists can type two pages in two minutes, how many typists
will it take to type 18 pages in six minutes?
7. If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight
as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?
8. Pear is to apple as potato is to?
A: banana
B: radish
C: strawberry
D: peach
E: lettuce
9. Continue the following number series with the group of numbers below
which best continues the series?
1 10 3 9 5 8 7 7 9 6 ? ?
A: 11 5
B: 10 5
C: 10 4
D: 11 6
10. Which of the following is least like the others?
A: poem
B: novel
C: painting
D: statue
E: flower
11. What is the following word when it is unscrambled?
H C P R A A T E U
12. What is the number that is one half of one quarter of one tenth of
400?
13. Which of the following sentences given below means approximately
the same as the proverb: "Don't count your chickens until they
are hatched?"
A: Some eggs have double yolks, so you can't really count eggs and
chickens.
B: You can't walk around the henhouse to count the eggs because it
will disturb the hens and they won't lay eggs.
C: It is not really sensible to rely on something that has not yet
happened and may not ever happen.
D: Since eggs break so easily, you may not be accurate in your
count of future chickens.
14. The SAME three-letter word can be placed in front of the following
words to make a new word:
_ _ _ L I G H T _ _ _ B R E A K _ _ _ T I M E
15. Which of the figures below the line of drawings best completes the
series?
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