I thought it was dead easy and did it in a minute or two.
Showed it to my teenage son and we agreed it is heavily biassed in favour of one learning style. My learning style, evidently. The test was heavily text-based, even the solitary Maths question being wrapped up in a lot of words. Question 6 (the bathbrick) is heavily culture specific i.e. you wouldn't be able to answer it if you didn't come from a culture where bathbricks were common (which we don't). That was the only question I got wrong. The test seemed very limited in terms of what my son does at a leading secondary school, where they identify 7 learning styles and more than 90% come out with more than 5 GCSEs. You can't help thinking of the very able and clever children who would have failed this test because it totally ignores their sort of intelligence. Maths was poorly represented and science not at all.

Liz, Bristol, UK

Brian from Colorado wrote:
Write the word "Irish" somewhere in the brackets (you are told only to underline if the the question requests you answer by underlining, otherwise you are to write the answer in the brackets)

Not so, you are told: "Read each question carefully, and then answer it in the bracket, or by underlining, or as it tells you". The ORs make the choice up to the test taker.

I don't see where it says "you are told only to underline if the the question requests you"

Dave, Santa Cruz, Calif.,

Hair does not keep people warm - clothes do!!

Yvetta Outqwit, Scotland,

I actually took the 11+ in 1948 (aged 10) I passed. The school is still a Grammar School. I attended a re-union in April of this year.
The only two that could be said to have genuinely improved their lot (one boy and one girl) had both emigrated fairly shortly after leaving school.
One additional factor never mentioned is that all us boys were required to spend two years in the military, and that was indeed unsettling.
Incidentially the real "success" was an attractive girl, who made a even more attractive marriage.
As for me : I would put Victor Meldrum to shame.
PJW is quite correct, mine wasa small market town Grammar School. I later worked in London and became to realise just how much harder it was to get a place in such a school in a city.
PS But I did get all the correct answers fairly easily, though I doubt I have grown any wiser.

Peter Bolt, Redditch, UK

None of the suggested answers for (4) is correct. Clothes are not part of man, the way that fur is to animals. Man: hair = animal:fur.

John, Smiths, Bermuda

FYI-bathbrick is like pumice stone and was used to keep metal, particularly dinner table knives shining before the advent of modern methods in blade manufacture. In the kitchen it was kept in a box, usually suspended on the wall, and the knives were run over it.
Never thought I'd have use for that information.

Lizbet, Orillia, Canada

Obviously the test has not stood the test of time, the answer to question 1 would now in majority be: -blank- I gather.... (also to designate any answer to that question as "correct" would be very difficult.
On an other note I think that the way question 5 is set is very odd. The way it can be read (although the meaning is obvious) is that all three boys are English as well as Scottish and Irish.... (I am not a native English speaker so I may be wrong here)

Ronald van Raay, Utrecht, Netherlands

I found the same problem, as Eric (above), but then 'right clicked' on the 'test question' line, left clicked on 'open' - and the test appeared. I got all 8 questions correct in around 90 seconds. This amused me because I 'failed' the 11+ back in 1949. The 11+ was a good idea in principle, but terribly unfair on the many bright children who went to primary schools in catchment areas of small grammar schools. I can still recall my primary school head telling my mother and the parents of a classmate, that my pal and I had done well enough to go to the grammar school, but unfortunately only two pupils from our school had been allocated places - and we two were unlucky. (NB The lucky ones were the son of a staff member at the grammar school, and the niece of one of our school's senior teachers.) It was an early lesson in the unfairness of life and the value of having the right connections. Despite this early disappointment I later obtained two degrees and enjoyed a rewarding career.

PJW, Lincoln, UK

No wonder we lost an empire, given these questions its a mystery how we got where we are!

Soutanglie, Winston Salem, NC

I'm surprised I knew what a Bathbrick was. I read alot and think I picked it up some where along the line. I think it was interesting and answered all right except toe to foot, I put nail.. Have a Good Life!

Judy, Mingo Junction, Ohio

the last question doesn't make sense. how is 9 the answer?! i don't get it...

lanie, san mateo, ca

I think it's just you ;)
It isn't an actual IQ test in itself, which you can clearly see if you read the headers, 'APPENDIX II... PRELIMINARY PRACTICE TEST'

Justin, London,

My friend has the correct answers for you:
1. Leave it blank. While the obvious answer might be B, it is the wrong answer.
2. Write B C D in the bracket and cross out the C
3. The correct answer to the question is Foot, however the correct response is to underline nail as you are told, separate of the question, to underline the RIGHT word.
4. Write the name of a creature that wears fur in the brackets (you are told only to underline if the the question requests you answer by underlining, otherwise you are to write the answer in the brackets)
5. Write the word "Irish" somewhere in the brackets (you are told only to underline if the the question requests you answer by underlining, otherwise you are to write the answer in the brackets)
6. Underline the word "cleaning"
7. Write X in the brackets
8. Write "9" both in the equation itself and also in the bracket.

Thanks Aevum

Brian, Colorado,, USA

I was suprised the answer for (2) wasn't "and" with "n" crossed out!

Jonny, Cambridge,

I'm not sure how the "Bath Brick" question tests your intelligence....but then I would say that, as I got it wrong!!
Maybe ALL soap used to be called "bricks" in the 40's?

John Robinson, Thetford, UK

On the top of the article but below the graphics and the author, Melanie Reid, there is a link "Click here for the IW test questions". Do as the link says and you should get a pop up asking if you wish to download the pdf file.

Cam, London, UK

One problem with the answers, particularly number 7. Correct me if I'm wrong, but S comes AFTER Q. I mean unless the ALPHABET WRITTEN AT THE TOP is incorrect.

The correct answer is Z, not X.

AJ Rutherford, Enfield, Maine

I don't get this. Are we meant to be working out the questions for the answers? I couldn't make it England so I emmigrated to the Cayman Islands where IQ doesn't seem to matter.

chris johnson, George Town, Cayman Islands

Is it me, or is this an IQ test for chipmunks?

Robert Thé, London, UK

I can't see what this test has to do with IQ - and Question 6 just shows how dependent poorly constructed tests are on local culture - after all who nowadays has even heard of a bathbrick?

Richard Walton, Worcestershire,

The recipe for successful aging? I thought the success of aging is becoming dead at the end.

Roland, Budapest,

I find it interesting that the test expects you to agree to the following statement: "Do you understand that you must do your best and not ask questions?"

How times have changed.

pete, Bristol, England

My IQ obviously isn't very good. I can't even get the Test to come up. Unless of course the setters didn't set it up right. Perhaps we need a test for them too.

eric campbell, harrogate, uk