Is 130 a good score on a iq test?
It’s well above average on most tests. How good it is depends on which test you took. Most of them use 100 for the average (mean and median), but, to interpret the raw score, you need to know the standard deviation (sd) of the scores for the test and that varies. E.g.: The Weschler scales have sd 15, the Stanford-Binet uses sd 16 and the Cattell uses 22. So, while 130 is a good score on all those tests, it’s better on the Weschler than on the Cattell. If you took your test on-line, that score doesn’t mean anything, good or bad. There are no genuine IQ tests on the Internet. The companies who develop real tests of intelligence for use by psychologists and psychometricians spend millions of dollars preparing and norming them. They do not make them available to the general public at all, let alone publish them on the Internet. Basic starter kits for professionals cost over $1000 and go up from there. Some people like to put together collections of interesting or challenging problems and p
