#39 Be a Genius

The book says 'Everyone has the potential to be a genius', which must include me!

The book includes 5 IQ test type questions and I'm pleased to say I answered them all correctly. However, as I've pointed out before, this is a kid's book, so I didn't think my success really indicated any kind of genius on my part. So I decided to get a 2nd opinion and contacted Mensa for a home test. Mensa are the high IQ society. The word Mensa means 'table' in Latin, I'm not really sure what that has to do with intelligence or anything else for that matter...maybe I'm not smart enough to understand?

Anyway, the home test came through and was a booklet of questions that covered language, maths and logic. I had a good go at it, all by myself I might add. The deal is, you pay them to mark your test and if you get a good result you are invited to take a monitored test. If you get the right result in that you can join Mensa. I'm not really bothered about belonging to an organisation that strikes me as vaguely smug and elitist, but as they are the experts in IQ so I sent the test off and got the results back this weekend.....

...cue drum roll....

My home test mark was - 155
Percentile score, top - 1%.

I think this means my score puts me in the top 1% of the population when it comes to intelligence! I'm not sure what the 155 means - perhaps an estimated IQ score?

Either way, I'm pretty impressed and certainly feel able to give myself blue/green coloured star for this one.