A score above 148 on Cattell III B is required for admission into Mensa. Mensa normally uses the Cattell III B or occasionally the Cattell III A culture fair tests. Some years ago I co-authored three books on IQ with my colleague Dr Eamonn Butler, and we even devised and standardized a new IQ test to accompany them. In Britain that would cover more than a million people, so it is not all that exclusive. The level required for admission into Mensa is the top 2 percent of IQ scores. The society publicized them to help boost applications and membership. It is not, as the BBC tells us, “a perfect score.” Nor is it true that “a score above 140 is considered to be that of a genius.” During the 13 years when I was Secretary of Mensa similar stories cropped up every few years. This time it’s Neha Ramu, a 13 year-old who has joined Mensa with an IQ score of 162. It’s a remake of a familiar story that surfaces periodically.
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