Mensa testing

Dayton Area Mensa, the local chapter of the international high IQ society, will hold an admission testing session on Wednesday at the Beavercreek library, 3618 Dayton-Xenia Road.

Test takers should arrive about 15-20 minutes prior to testing to complete registration. Late arrivals cannot be accommodated once testing has started. Each test taker must have a photo ID and the $60 testing fee, which is charged by the national Mensa office to cover expenses of the testing program, including purchasing the right to use the copyrighted test. Those who score in the top 2 percent of the general population on either of two tests of logic and deductive reasoning are eligible for Mensa membership. The test is open to anyone age 14 and older, but parental permission is required for those ages 14-17.

The test American Mensa administers is not normed and validated for persons under 14. Applicants of any age can also use prior evidence from a wide variety of other standardized IQ tests to qualify. This is the only way a person under 14 can qualify.

Mensa also has a culture-fair, language-neutral, battery of non-timed tests given by individual appointment for candidates whose first language is not English or who have difficulty with timed tests.

If this would apply to you, please contact us to set up a private appointment. Any candidate is free to take the culture-fair tests for any reason.

For additional information or to preregister for the test, please contact testing@dayton.us.mensa. org or call 937-546-7885. Preregistration is encouraged. Also see Dayton Area Mensa’s website at www.dayton.us.mensa.org.