- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Kogan page; Reissue edition (3 Jan 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749452285
- ISBN-13: 978-0749452285
- Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 14 x 21.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Succeed at IQ Tests contains 400 practice questions, compiled by IQ test experts, which will help you to improve your verbal, numerical and spatial reasoning skills and ultimately your IQ rating.
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IQ tests are a commonplace feature of both the educational system and recruitment and selection procedures.
Succeed at IQ Tests contains 400 questions, typical of those you are likely to encounter in actual IQ tests. The questions are organised into 10 timed tests, each of 40 questions, together with a guide for assessing your performance.
By practising the different types of questions, you can improve your verbal, numerical, spatial reasoning skills, boost your confidence and improve your IQ rating.
Whether you are faced with an IQ test as part of a job interview, or simply wish to exercise your mind for you own entertainment, Succeed at IQ Tests provides you with plenty of opportunity to practise.
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To which hexagon below can a dot be added so that both dots then meet the same conditions as in the hexagon above? Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
To which hexagon below can a dot be added so that both dots then meet the same conditions as in the hexagon above? Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wasted money on this book as preparation for the Mensa IQ test.
Why wasted? Because many of the questions are general knowledge, not tests of IQ. IQ tests are designed to test reasoning, not knowledge.
So how can the authors justify questions like the following?
- What is the name given to a group of arrows? (test of vocabulary, not reasoning)
- Find six birds? (hidden in a matrix of letters - only an ornithologist would recognise some of the birds in the solution)
even more obscure is this one on page69:
Place these items in three sets of three (fish, trees, drinks)
BLOATER ANISEED CURACAO KOUMISS REDWOOD POLLOCK POLYPUS DOGWOOD PERRIER
(the experts may know that koumiss is a drink and polypus is a fish, but I didn't).
The botanists might also like "Prunus domestica is to plum as Vitus vinifiera is to:"
cherry, prune, pomegranate, peach, grape (it's grape, perhaps the "vin" gave a clue).
It is hard to believe that one of the authors is an "IQ test expert" as mentioned on the book's cover.
So in short, this book did not help me to prepare for the Mensa IQ test at all.
Luckily I still passed.
Why wasted? Because many of the questions are general knowledge, not tests of IQ. IQ tests are designed to test reasoning, not knowledge.
So how can the authors justify questions like the following?
- What is the name given to a group of arrows? (test of vocabulary, not reasoning)
- Find six birds? (hidden in a matrix of letters - only an ornithologist would recognise some of the birds in the solution)
even more obscure is this one on page69:
Place these items in three sets of three (fish, trees, drinks)
BLOATER ANISEED CURACAO KOUMISS REDWOOD POLLOCK POLYPUS DOGWOOD PERRIER
(the experts may know that koumiss is a drink and polypus is a fish, but I didn't).
The botanists might also like "Prunus domestica is to plum as Vitus vinifiera is to:"
cherry, prune, pomegranate, peach, grape (it's grape, perhaps the "vin" gave a clue).
It is hard to believe that one of the authors is an "IQ test expert" as mentioned on the book's cover.
So in short, this book did not help me to prepare for the Mensa IQ test at all.
Luckily I still passed.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Is another good collection of pretty damn tough puzzles but not a training book as such. Just lots of puzzles. Hard ones. I don't know if I've got dumber as I've got older or if IQ test type puzzles have got more difficult?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Incorrect answers and no errata
24 Oct 2010
Format:Paperback
Some of the answers in the book are incorrect. In addition, some questions are poorly phrased leading to potential confusion. Some of the questions have more than one answer.
To Kogan Page:
Please improve the questions and provide an online errata!
To Kogan Page:
Please improve the questions and provide an online errata!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Only for mother-tongue English speakers
14 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
___There are good and not so good things about the book. The good is that tests are hard. Really not what you would expect after taking internet IQ tests. The not so good is that it is created for mother-tongue English speakers. Though I have been learning English since I was 6, lived in USA and UK, I still pretty much couldn't answer any of the questions related to verbal tasks (finding synonyms, antonyms, etc.). Often even the dictionary wouldn't help.
___Also, in my opinion, there are some mistakes in the answers.
___Also, in my opinion, there are some mistakes in the answers.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
perfect
23 Oct 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
i love when the product matches the description, book is what i expected and its in perfect condition
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