Join Rochester Area Mensa

Take a Test

Several times every year, RAM invites membership candidates to take a Mensa admission test.  These are supervised intelligence tests administered by one of our trained and certified proctors.

• If you are an adult (18 or above) we can administer our standard admission test battery
• If you are aged 14 to 17 we can provide a test but it will require parental permission
• We also offer a Culture Fair Test Battery.  You may be interested if you:
  • are a speaker of English as a second language,
  • are a person raised or familiar with another culture,
  • previously did not qualify on our standard test battery,
  • simply process visual information more efficiently than verbal information.

PLEASE NOTE:  Unless otherwise specified, all admission test sessions are for our Standard Mensa Admission Test Battery; the Culture-Fair Test Battery is less common and is only given on certain occasions or upon request.

Submit Prior Evidence

Many of our members joined without ever having to take one of our own proctored admission tests.  They were able to submit certification - otherwise known as prior evidence - of tests they have already taken.  If you previously achieved a qualifying score at any point in your life, at or above the 98th percentile on a standardized intelligence test, you may already qualify for membership.  We can accept certification of almost 200 different tests.

Just to give you an idea of the many types of tests we can accept, simply review this list of categories and recall tests you may have taken:

• Tests commonly administered by school districts
• College preparatory tests
• Tests administered by private psychologists
• Tests administered by the military

For more information and a partial list of accepted test scores, we will refer you to the American Mensa, Ltd. website list of Qualifying Test Scores.