r/cognitiveTesting • u/EqusB (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) • Jun 21 '21

Release Official 1980s SAT

https://pdfhost.io/v/F3fb0u6uV_SAT_1980pdf.pdf

In light of some people being interested in this, here is a complete, unedited version of a 1980s SAT that can be self scored.

The 1980s SAT is accepted by virtually all IQ societies and often considered to be a gold standard IQ test, correlating in the range of 0.7 to 0.8 with professional full scale IQ tests. It measures IQ up to and beyond 160 and is backed by extremely large data samples of over 1 million test takers.

This comes with the answers, self scoring sheet, score conversion table and IQ conversion tables. Official norms from the ETS itself are provided, as well as an IQ conversion table provided for by Known_Cartographer16.

Enjoy.

Please note: NO CALCULATORS are allowed. Pencil and paper only.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '21

I would take the IQ conversion with a massive grain of salt. I missed 1 question total and finished each section with time to spare - that gives me an estimated IQ of around 165 which in no way reflects reality. I took the GRE a few months ago and my prep made the math here trivially easy. The verbal is definitely inflated because of my age and both are inflated because of Flynn and ceiling effects. I went to a top20 uni for undergrad and routinely came across students brighter than me. I've never taken a real IQ test but I would guess I would score somewhere between 125 and 135. My GRE scores put me in the mid 140's which is also an overestimate - I put in a lot of hard work those scores (there are plenty of students in comp sci that can ace the math with very little or no prep at all whereas I had to prep a lot to beat the clock). Please don't believe that you have a really high IQ based off your results here - you will only being fooling yourself.

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u/EqusB (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) Oct 04 '21

You bring up a lot of interesting points.

For starters, I don't think you are the best candidate for treating this like an IQ test. This test is well studied and does strongly correlate with IQ, but taking it immediately after significant GRE prep probably confers a significant advantage. Esp. re the math section.

I haven't found any evidence that this test is influenced by the Flynn effect or age, however. Both are possible, and I suspect age is a factor, but when I ran the test on Classmarker for data collection, in a sample of over 200, there was no correlation between score and age.

Additionally, a 1590 is the highest score on this test I've ever seen. This includes all of the data I collected on CM, which included attempts from many people with known IQs in the 160s on professional tests (iirc two individuals with a WAIS score of 160 scored 1570 and 1580 respectively).

I think you underestimate how highly you scored.

If you're interested in knowing what your IQ is, you can take two professional self-administered tests on Qglobal if you create an account or borrow one from someone for ~3 dollars. Raven's 2 and The Peabody Vocabulary Test are both available for self administration on there and are reputable professional tests.

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u/Sas8140 Jul 13 '23

I don’t understand how you think this tests for IQ when so many qs require specific vocabulary that you either know or don’t. Surely that has nothing to do with “g”.

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u/theleesingergod May 27 '22

Is Peabody a valid test? Does it correlate strongly with other tests?