Mensa Testing Information
Test Scores Accepted by American Mensa

Last Updated: October 11, 1996

California Test of Mental Maturity (CTMM)

IQ 132

California Test of Cognitive Skills

IQ 132

Cattell

IQ 148

Cattell Culture Fair

*

Stanford Binet, Form L-M

IQ 132

Wechsler Adult and Children Scales (WAIS and WAIS-R, WISC, WISC-R, WISC-III)

IQ 130

Otis-Lennon Tests

IQ 132

Otis-Gamma Test

IQ 131

PSAT (Taken in Junior Year) prior to 4/93

180

effective 4/93

NA

PSAT (Taken in Senior Year) prior to 4/93

180

effective 4/93

NA

SAT or CEEB prior to 9/77

1300

9/77 thru 8/93

1250

effective 9/93

NA

LSAT prior to 1982

662

1982 thru 5/91

39

effective 6/91

163

GRE prior to 6/94 (Math + Verbal)

1250

effective 6/94 (Math + Verbal + Analytic)

1875

GMAT (Percentile rank of verbal + quantitative)**

95

ACT Composite prior to 9/89

29

effective 9/89

NA

Miller Analogies Test (MAT) -- Raw Score

66

Army GCT*** prior to 10/80

136

effective 10/80

NA

Navy GCT*** prior to 10/80

68

effective 10/80

NA

Henmon-Nelson

*

NY State Regents Scholarship Test (Aptitude Section only)

*

Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)

*

SRA Primary Mental Abilities

*


NA These tests no longer correlate with an IQ test. Note that the acceptance date applies to the date you took the test, not the date you join Mensa. You can still join Mensa by using older scores.
* Many intelligence test scores will qualify you for Mensa, but Mensa's supervisory psychologists will have to individually appraise the documentation. Almost any test with "achievement" in the title is not acceptable to Mensa.
** For the GMAT, unlike most tests, the qualifying score is based on the percentile of the total score. There are three columns on the score report, each with a numerical score and a percentile. You're looking for the percentile next to the score in the "total" column -- if it's 95% or greater, the score qualifies you for Mensa.
*** The only scores that Mensa can accept are the AGCT scores from the Army, and the GT scores from the Navy -- before the use of the ASVAB (9/80). The new military tests are vocational aptitude tests and are not suitable for Mensa admission.

Mensa reserves the right to alter or change these scores as the tests shown are renormed or restandardized. Mensa will individually appraise all applications, and reserves the right to make the final determination about the acceptability of any test.



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