Intelligence tests are assessments designed to measure an individual’s cognitive abilities, problem-solving skills, and overall intellectual potential. These tests aim to provide insights into a person’s reasoning, memory, attention, language comprehension, and other cognitive domains.
The primary objective of intelligence tests is to provide a standardized and objective measure of an individual’s intellectual capabilities. These assessments are often administered by psychologists, educators, or other professionals in various settings, such as schools, clinical environments, or research studies.
Intelligence tests typically consist of a series of tasks or questions that assess different cognitive abilities. These tasks may include verbal reasoning, logical thinking, spatial awareness, pattern recognition, and numerical skills. The results of intelligence tests are often represented by an intelligence quotient (IQ), which is a numerical score comparing an individual’s performance to that of a normative sample.
Intelligence tests are valuable tools in several contexts:
- Educational Settings: Intelligence tests can assist educators in identifying students’ strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles. They provide insights into cognitive abilities that help tailor instruction, develop individualized education plans, and provide appropriate support to meet students’ educational needs.
- Clinical and Diagnostic Settings: Intelligence tests are used in clinical psychology and neuropsychology to assess cognitive functioning and diagnose conditions such as intellectual disabilities, learning disorders, or cognitive impairments resulting from neurological conditions or brain injuries.
- Research Studies: Intelligence tests are utilized in research to investigate the relationships between cognitive abilities, academic achievement, job performance, and various factors influencing intelligence. Researchers can explore the impact of genetics, environment, socioeconomic factors, and educational interventions on intelligence and cognitive development.
It is important to note that intelligence tests have limitations and should be used as part of a comprehensive assessment process. They provide a snapshot of an individual’s cognitive abilities at a specific point in time and may not capture the full range of an individual’s potential or other important aspects such as creativity, emotional intelligence, or social skills.
Additionally, intelligence tests should be administered and interpreted by professionals trained in their use to ensure accuracy and appropriate application. Ethical considerations, cultural sensitivity, and awareness of potential biases are crucial when administering intelligence tests to individuals from diverse backgrounds.
List of Intelligence Tests (Indian)
| S.No | Title of the Test | Author (s) |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | A Group Intelligence Test (In Hindi) | Prayag Mehta |
| 02 | Wechsler Adult Performance Intelligence Scale | Pr Ramalingaswamy |
| 03 | Culture Fair Intelligence Test (a Measure of ‘g’), scale-2 Forms A & B (Hindi version) | S. Rao & R.N. Singh |
| 04 | Test of “g” Culture Fair Intelligence Test, Scale -3 Form A & B (Hindi Version) | S. Rao |
| 05 | Mixed type Group Test of Intelligence (Verbal and Nonverbal) (Hindi) | P.N. Mehrotra |
| 06 | Group Test of Intelligence | Pramila Ahuja |
| 07 | Verbal Intelligence Test (Hindi Version) | R.K. Ojha &Sharma K. Roy Chowdhury |
| 08 | Draw A Bicycle Test of Intelligence (Age group11-16 years) | T.R. Sharma |
| 09 | Group Test of Intelligence (13-17+ years) | G.C. Ahuja |
| 10 | Draw-a-Man Test for Indian Children (2 ½ – 15 ½ years) | Pramila Phatak |
| 11 | Human Figure Drawing Test or Draw-a- man test | A.N. Misra |
| 12 | Verbal Intelligence Test | R.K.Ojha & K.Ray Chowdhury |
| 13 | Group Test of Intelligence | Pramila Ahuja |
| 14 | Concept Formation Test | Kamal Dwivedi |
| 15 | A Group Test of Intelligence for children (2/70) (Hindi) | R.K. Tandon |
| 16 | The Group Test of General Mental Ability 20/52 | R.K. Tandon |
| 17 | CIE Individual Scale of Intelligence 3+ to 11+ | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 18 | CIE Group Test of Intelligence (11-12) (Hindi) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 19 | CIE Verbal Group Test of Intelligence (13+) (Hindi) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 20 | CIE Verbal Group Test of Intelligence (14+) (Hindi) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 21 | CIE Non-Verbal Test of Intelligence (Hindi) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 22 | The Group General Mental Ability Test (GMAT) (8th – 11th Standard) (Hindi) | S. Jalota |
| 23 | Indian Adaptation of Binet Simon Scale (1960) | S.K. Kulshrestha |
| 24 | Otis Self Administering Test of Mental Ability (Indian Adaptation) (Hindi) | N.S. Chauhan & Govind Tiwari |
| 25 | Gujarati Adaptation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children | M.C. Bhatt |
| 26 | Group Test of Intelligence for Standard VIII to XII (Gujarati) | K.G. Desai & M.C. Bhatt |
| 27 | Vithoba Paknikar Performance Tests for the Blind | K.K. Paknikar |
| 28 | Indian Intelligence Test (Hindi) | R.P. Gupta |
| 29 | Bhatia’s Performance Test of Intelligence | C.M. Bhatia |
| 30 | Chandra Mohini Budhi Parikshan (11th & 12th standard) (Hindi) | Chandra Mohini |
| 31 | A Pictorial Monograph of Motor and Mental Development of Indian Babies from 1 to 30 months | Pramila Phatak |
| 32 | Chandra Mohini Budhi Parikshan (Hindi) | Chandra Mohini |
| 33 | Test of General Mental Ability (or Intelligence) (Hindi) | M.C. Joshi |
| 34 | Wechsler Pre-School and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) | M.C. Joshi |
| 35 | General Mental Ability Test for Children (for 7-11 years) | R.P. Srivastava & Kiran Saksena |
| 36 | A Group Test of Intelligence for adults | R.K.Tandon |
| 37 | Social Intelligence Scale (SIS) | N.K.Chadha & Usha Ganesan |
| 38 | Developmental Screening Test (DST) | J. Bharath Raj |
| 39 | General Mental Alertness Test (GMAT) (Hindi & English) | R.P. Srivastava |
| 40 | Non-Verbal Intelligence Test | Atmananda Sharma |
| 41 | The Revised Bhatia’s Short Battery Of Performance Tests of Intelligence | S.K. Verma |
| 42 | Test of General Intelligence Verbal Numerical & Abstract Reasoning Test (VNART) | Ram Naresh Singh |
| 43 | Non-Verbal Test I by J.W.Jenkins (10-12 years) (Hindi adaptation) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 44 | Buddhi Mapak Prashan Patrika | Department of Psychology Prantiya Shikshan Mahavidyalaya (PSM), Jabalpur |
| 45 | Verbal Group Test of Intelligence Terman Merrill and others (Hindi adaptation, 11 – 14 years) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 46 | Verbal Group Test of Intelligence Test- BPT-7 (revised) For age group 13 plus | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad, UP |
| 47 | General Knowledge & General Intelligence Test | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad, UP |
| 48 | A Group Intelligence Test (Hindi) | Prayag Mehta |
| 49 | Baroda Studies in Mental Measurement (Gujarati-English) | M.S. University, Baroda |
| 50 | The test of General Intelligence | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad |
| 51 | Non-Verbal Test | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad |
| 52 | General Intelligence Test (Marathi) | Anant Pathak |
| 53 | The Test of General Intelligence (Hindi) | Education & Vocational Guidance Bureau, Patna |
| 54 | Space Test B.P.S.T. 1 (Budhi Pariksha) (Hindi) | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad |
| 55 | A Group Test of Intelligence (Verbal) (For High School Students) (Tamil) | Teachers’ College, Mysore |
| 56 | The Bihar Test of General Intelligence | S.M. Mohsin |
| 57 | The Allahabad Intelligence Test | Sohan Lall |
| 58 | Intelligence Test (Adults) | Bureau of Psychology, Uttar Pradesh |
| 59 | The P.S.M. General Intelligence Test | Jabalpur |
| 60 | A Report of Hindi Translation and Adaptation of ‘WAIS-R’ Verbal Scale | Dwarka Pershad & Santosh K.Verma |
| 61 | Humanities Group Test of General Mental Ability (Hindi) | Mohan Chandra Joshi |
| 62 | The Help I.Q. Computer | K.N. Saxena |
| 63 | Verbal Group Test of Intelligence (13+) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 64 | Non-Verbal Test I by J.W.Jenkins (10- 12 years) (Hindi adaptation) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 65 | Samanya Budhi Pariksha (Hindi) Age 11+ | State Bureau of Educational & Vocational Guidance, Gwalior, MP |
| 66 | Budhi Pariksha (Verbal Group Test of Intelligence) 12 Plus | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad |
| 67 | Non-Verbal Test (Hindi) | Bureau of Psychology, UP, Allahabad – Adapted by Constructed by D.A.Pidgeon, B.Sc. |
| 68 | General Intelligence Test | Pannalal Shrimali |
| 69 | Verbal Group Test of Intelligence Age Group 13 Plus | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad |
| 70 | Stanford Binet Budhi Pariksha | Bureau of Psychology, Allahabad |
| 71 | A.E.M. Test for Intelligence Cooperation (Hindi) Ages 7-10 | American Evangelical Mission, Raipur, M.P. |
| 72 | Test of General Intelligence (Hindi) | Educational & Vocational Bureau, Bihar |
| 73 | Budhi Pariksha (Hindi) | Bureau of Psychology Allahabad |
| 74 | CIE Individual Scale of Intelligence (Adapted from Terman Merril & Others) | Central Institute of Education, Delhi |
| 75 | NCERT General Ability Test | NCERT |
| 76 | Individual Intelligence Test Battery Age 5+ (Hindi) | S.C.P. Institute, Allahabad |
| 77 | Non-Verbal Group Tests of Intelligence (Tamil) | Department of Psychology, University of Madras |
| 78 | Draw-a-Man Test for Indian Children | Pramila Phatak |
| 79 | Marathi Budhi Mapan Pariksha (Marathi) | M.N. Kulkarni |
| 80 | Non-Verbal Test of Intelligence | G.H. Nafde |
| 81 | Intelligence Test (Bangla) | G. H. Nafde |
| 82 | KoHs Block Design Test | National Psychological Corporation, Agra |
| 83 | Seguin Form Board (S.F.B) | S.K. Goel |
| 84 | Non-Language Test of Intelligence | S.Chatterji, Mangula Mukerjee, Rumki Gupta |
| 85 | Indian Child Intelligence Test | Usha Khire |
| 86 | I AM – A Software for Intelligence and Aptitude Measurement Test. | Jnana Prabodhini’s Institute of Psychology, Pune |
| 87 | Revised Bhatia’s Short Battery of Performance Tests of Intelligence for Adults | C.M. Bhatia |
| 88 | Indian Adaptation of Wechsler’s Adult Performance Intelligence Scale | Prabha Ramalingaswamy |
| 89 | Emotional Intelligence Scale | Anakool H.S.Sanjyot |
| 90 | Social Intelligence Scale | N.K.Chadha and Usha Ganesan |
| 91 | General Mental Alertness Test (GMAT) | R.P.Srivastava |
| 92 | PGI Battery for Assessment of Mental Efficiency in the Elderly | Adarsh Kohli, S.K.Verma & Dwarka Pershad |
| 93 | Indian Norms for Raven’s Standard Progressive matrices | C.G.Deshpande, J.M.Ojha |
| 94 | Swarup-Mehta Test of thinking Strategies | Smriti Swarup & D.H.Mehta |
| 95 | Meta Cognition Inventory | Punita Govil |
| 96 | Emotional Intelligence Inventory | S.K.Mangal & Shubhra Mangal |
| 97 | Spiritual Quotient (SQ): An Assessment Tool | Chittranjan N. Daftuar Nira Manghrani |
| 98 | Multiple Intelligences Inventory | Amitha V. and A.H.M. Vijayalaxmi |
| 99 | Gesell Drawing test of intelligence (8- 17yrs) | S. Venkatesan |
| 100 | Reena’s Emotional Intelligence Scale | Dr. Reena Singh |
