Help me with this "IQ Test"

Also, given that #17 appears to have an error in the answer (it’s missing a symbol on the grid), I’m not exactly inclined to think the given answers are not error-prone. I mean, what are the chances that a series that goes 123456789 -> 73841259 -> 285973641 in the first row, repeats exactly in the second row, and is given as 123456789 -> 73841259 -> ? in the third row, with a possible answer of 285973641 given not being accepted as a valid answer? That just seems weird to me.

17 : A is the answer but mis-printed. There should be a diamond in the center of the square of column 3 row 3.

That is what is so frustrating about these type of “puzzles”. It’s like: “what temperature scale has 100 degrees between water freezing and boiling?” “Kelvin!” “Sorry, no, I was thinking of Celsius”.

I’m usually pretty good about getting into test maker’s heads for these types of things, but this one is especially annoying if “F” is indeed the “correct” answer, as the test maker clearly knew that “A” was a valid answer by including it, just not the answer they were looking for. With “A” as an answer, all three series of grids follow the pattern I detailed in post #15. It’s certainly not just dumb luck that “A” happened to complete this particular pattern. The test maker is basically saying “AHA! You thought I was testing you on how suits are rearranged from an initial starting position to a third position, but rather, I’m test you for XXXX?”

So if F is the correct answer, then they clearly are not looking for how the shapes are moved within the grid, but something else, as the answer “F” does not contain two clubs, two spades, two hearts, three diamonds like every single other grid on the left side does. Somehow, with the answer the test maker intended, we get an extra spade and lose a diamond, so maybe that could help us reverse engineer what the test maker was thinking.

Off the top of my head, I see that A and F are very similar answers. The only difference between them is at the top right, one has a diamond, and the other has a spade. The second row is identical. In the third row, the spade and heart are flipped.

So perhaps that could help us. With the extra spade and the missing diamond, I’m guessing perhaps the suits flip or something at some point?

This is why I avoid such tests. Give me questions that are useful.
I refused to take an IQ test in 2nd grade, and the whole in my school records kept me out of G & T programs. Another reason I have no respect for these kinds of tests.

I did IQ testing before brain surgery. There was a functional IQ test on which I scored 155. I don’t remember what the score for the rest of the test was, but I remember I could join Mensa. I just don’t want to.

Well, I think that’s part of the theory of IQ testing–that they are supposed to be very abstract questions that test your ability to think rather than what you know. So ability to spot patterns and that sort of thing is heavy on what I remember of IQ tests.