Classical IQ test with random questions - This test has 30 randomly selected questions. In this way any next solving of the test will produce a fair assessment. The time for solving is limited to 35 minutes.

1.

What comes next?

D
A
E
C
B

2. Which word in brackets is most opposite to the word in capitals?

PROSCRIBE
indict
promote
stifle
verify
allow

3.

Which is the missing section?

B
D
C
A

4. Using the five letters below only, create a nine-letter word.

LOPER

5. 1, 101, 15, 4, 29, –93, 43, –190, ?

What number should replace the question mark?

6.

When the above is folded to form a cube, which is the only one of the following that can be produced?

B
C
E
D
A

7.

Which square below has most in common with the square above?

C
A
E
B
D

8.

Which is the missing tile?

D
B
A
C
E

9.

To which hexagon below can a dot be added so that it then meets the same conditions as in the hexagon above?

A
E
D
C
B

10.

What number should replace the question mark?

11.

Which is missing?

A
B
C
E
D

12.

as

E
B
D
C
F
A

13. blanch is to boil as saut? is to:

simmer, fry, soak, roast, garnish

14.

What number should replace the question mark?

15. aplomb, dodge, graph, jerk, ?

What comes next?

laugh, maroon, link, nickel, midnight

16. 5862 is to 714
and 3498 is to 1113
and 9516 is to 156

therefore 8257 is to ?

17.

What number in the grid is three places away from itself less two, two places away from itself divided by two, three places away from itself less five and three places away from itself multiplied by three?

18. Switch A turns lights 1 and 2 on/off or off/on
Switch B turns lights 2 and 4 on/off or off/on
Switch C turns lights 1 and 3 on/off or off/on

Switches B, A and C are thrown in turn with the result that Figure 1 turns into Figure 2. Which switch does not work at all?

19. Which is the odd number out?

462 683 385 198 253 781 594

20. A man has 53 socks in his drawer: 21 identical blue, 15 identical black and 17 identical red. The lights are fused and he is completely in the dark. How many socks must he take out to make 100 per cent certain he has a pair of black socks?

21. Which is the odd one out?

banner, staff, pennant, streamer, oriflamme

22. Which is the odd one out?

A
B
F
C
D
E

23.

Start at one of the four corner letters and spiral clockwise round the perimeter, finishing at the centre letter to spell out a nine-letter word. You must provide the missing letters.

24.

Start at one of the four corner letters and spiral clockwise round the perimeter, finishing at the centre letter to spell out a nine-letter word. You must provide the missing letters.

25. 71, 81, 74, 77, 77, 73, 80, 69, ?

What number should replace the question mark?

26. Which word in brackets is most opposite in meaning to the word in capitals?

PALATABLE (sparse, agonising, bland, raw, inferior)

27. Find the starting point and work from letter to adjoining letter horizontally and vertically, but not diagonally, to spell out a 12-letter word. You have to provide the missing letters.

28.

Which is the missing tile?

C
B
D
A
E

29. How much does a bag of flour weigh if it weighs 1 kilogram plus the weight of half the bag of flour?

30.

What number should replace the question mark?