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Qualifying Scores for the Triple Nine Society
To qualify for membership, you must submit a signed application and an Official Score Report documenting your qualifying score on one of the tests listed below.
For general instructions, please visit the main instructions page.
Only the tests listed here can be used to qualify for admission.
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- Your Score Report must clearly state the name of the specific test you took and the score you achieved on it in the same format as listed below (e.g., if the format below is a number, then your score report must show an equal or higher number).
- Certificates of Membership in other high-IQ organizations are irrelevant to our qualification criteria, so please do not include them in your TNS Application.
- Letters of acceptance to Mensa, etc., which assert a numerical score but do not document the name of the test administered will generally not suffice, because the various Mensa organizations worldwide use various different tests for qualification, some of which TNS does not accept.
- International Mensa Test Scores must include name of test taken (e.g., Cattell-IIIB; etc.) and meet score criteria below for that particular test. Mensa U.K. reports Cattell-IIIB scores only up to 161 and so that score cannot be used to qualify for TNS.
- The only restrictions on age and date at time of testing are those listed below.
- There are no exceptions, under any circumstances, to the minimum qualifying scores published below or to the age-and-date restrictions published below.
- All reports of psychologist-administered tests must include the testing psychologist’s name, business address, professional letterhead or official stamp, and signature.
- Any applicant authorized to administer, or in any way having access to, any of our admissions tests must provide evidence of satisfactory scores achieved before he/she became so authorized or before gaining access to any such test. It is required that any applicant authorized to administer, or with access to, any of our accepted tests disclose that fact and list all such tests on his/her TNS application. Failure to disclose will result in administrative dismissal from the Society. No scores will be accepted from anyone whose business associate or familial relative administered their test, nor may tests have been self-administered.