Mensa is a not-for-profit society whose members qualify by having an IQ in the top 2% of the population. Australian Mensa supports Gifted Children and Research into intelligence with annual grants.
Membership requirement
The minimum accepted score on the Stanford–Binet is 132, while for the Cattell it is 148 and 130 in the Wechsler tests (WAIS, WISC).
Membership of Mensa is available to any person who can demonstrate they have an IQ in the top 2% of the population. Prospective members can apply to join by sitting our supervised entrance test or by providing prior evidence via a valid IQ test.
A score of 130 or higher signals a high IQ. Membership in Mensa, the High IQ society, includes people who score in the top 2 percent, which is usually 132 or higher. Keep reading as we explore more about high IQ, what it means, and what it doesn't mean.
Less than a Netflix subscription! Mensa dues are $79/year, and we offer discounts for additional family members and multi-year memberships. You can learn more about our dues structure here.
Are there other benefits to being a Mensa member? Along with the intellectual and social activities, members receive discounts on products and services including magazine subscriptions, insurance and travel. Our Member Services team is always looking into new ways to provide extra value for your membership.
A: Joining Mensa is an excellent way to meet and socialize with people of similar intellectual abilities, but it does not belong on a resume, which will be explained later.
Smarter than Einstein? Albert Einstein likely never took an IQ test but is estimated to have a 160 IQ—but even that can't stand up to these masterminds.
An individual's IQ does not change with age. In other words: if you did an IQ test now and then another one in 10 years' time, your IQ score will probably be very similar. This is because IQ is always measured relative to other people your age.
Australia - 63.96 (A)
We reached 2500 members in September 2019.
It was founded in 1946 and is the oldest, largest and arguably best known of all the high IQ societies with well over 140,000 members.
Some intelligence tests don't use IQ scores at all. This is why Mensa keeps it simple with a cutoff of 98%: candidates who have achieved a score at or above the 98th percentile on a standard test of intelligence will qualify for Mensa. Simple!
The Prometheus Society is a high IQ society, similar to Mensa International, but much more restrictive. The entry criterion, achievable by a number of tests, is designed to be passable by 1 in 30,000 of the population, while Mensa entry is achievable by 1 in 50.
Similar to Einstein, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had an estimated IQ of 160, yet it is unknown if he ever took an IQ test, according to enhancingbrain.com. According to Healthline, about 68% of people have an IQ between 85 and 115.
Mensa has only one criterion for membership: a high IQ. They require members to take an approved standardized test of intelligence and score in the 98th percentile.
The European study, which was released this week, found evidence that we tend to hit our cognitive maximum around age 35 and remain there until about age 45, at which point a long, slow decline takes hold.
Researchers have previously shown that a person's IQ is highly influenced by genetic factors, and have even identified certain genes that play a role. They've also shown that performance in school has genetic factors. But it's been unclear whether the same genes that influence IQ also influence grades and test scores.
They conclude that humans reach their cognitive peak around the age of 35 and begin to decline after the age of 45. And our cognitive abilities today exceed those of our ancestors. “Performance reveals a hump-shaped pattern over the life cycle,” report the authors in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Adragon De Mello: IQ 400
In 1988, when Adragon De Mello graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in computational mathematics at the age of 11, he was the youngest college graduate in the United States (a record he no longer holds).
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Mensa is a non-political, international high-IQ society for bright or exceptional minds. With members ranging from 3-103, Mensa has been one of the most prestigious intellectual circles on the planet since the mid-1940s.
If people fail the Mensa test, they can redo another one or have one done by a professional psychologist. If none of this works, it only means the candidate wasn't meant to be a Mensa member.