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Important: This assessment, certificate, and report are intended for educational and personal-development purposes. They are not clinical psychological evaluations and should not be used for diagnosis, employment, educational placement, legal decisions, or Mensa qualification.
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What the CMIAS cognitive assessment measures
CMIAS is a DesperateMinds framework for evaluating written reasoning across seven dimensions. It is not presented as a replacement for a supervised clinical intelligence test.
Novel Problem Solving
Reasoning through unfamiliar problems when no rehearsed solution is supplied.
Cross-Domain Transfer
Recognizing a useful structure in one area and applying it to a different context.
Question Quality Generation
Producing questions that reveal assumptions, alternatives, and missing information.
Assumption Identification
Finding the hidden premises on which a claim, plan, or argument depends.
Uncertainty Calibration
Matching stated confidence to the quality and correctness of the reasoning provided.
Conceptual Compression & Expansion
Moving between concise explanations and detailed models without losing the core idea.
Speed of Updating
Revising a position when new evidence changes the balance of reasons.
Automated profile
AI evaluates submitted responses and produces an educational profile, estimated result, report, and certificate of completion.
How to interpret the CMIAS report
The seven-dimension profile describes performance on this set of open-response tasks. The estimated IQ-equivalent is not a clinical IQ score and should not be used for diagnosis, school placement, employment, legal decisions, or Mensa admission. The site does not claim that CMIAS has representative national norms, independent psychometric validation, peer review, or demonstrated equivalence to WAIS or Stanford–Binet testing.
Choose the Advanced IQ Test for a shorter assessment combining multiple-choice and open responses, or the free online IQ test for a quick score band. For interpretation limits, read about online test accuracy and cultural and language bias.
CMIAS questions
What does CMIAS stand for?
CMIAS stands for Comprehensive Multidimensional Intelligence Assessment System, an original DesperateMinds open-response framework.
How is CMIAS different from a standard IQ test?
CMIAS uses 56 open-ended tasks across seven dimensions rather than relying primarily on multiple-choice verbal, numerical, logical, and spatial questions.
How are CMIAS answers evaluated?
The submitted text is evaluated automatically by AI across the stated dimensions. The assessment does not promise clinical interpretation or human review by a licensed psychologist.
Is CMIAS independently validated?
The site does not present CMIAS as independently psychometrically validated, nationally normed, peer reviewed, or equivalent to a supervised clinical intelligence test.
Comprehensive Multidimensional
Intelligence Assessment
A 90-minute, open-response cognitive assessment with 56 questions across seven dimensions and automated AI evaluation.
The Uncertainty Calibration section requires you to both answer each question AND provide a confidence rating (0–100%). A score of 70% means "I believe I am correct about 70% of the time when I am this confident." Your confidence accuracy is measured, not just your answers.
Before you begin
You have 90 minutes for 56 questions. All are open-ended — type your reasoning in full. There are no multiple choice options.
Write at least 40 words per answer. The AI evaluates the quality of your reasoning — not keywords. Write as you would explain your thinking to an intelligent colleague.
For the Uncertainty Calibration section (Qs 33–40) you must also rate your confidence (0–100%) for each question.
Your 7-dimensional profile and certificate are generated after completion, with report delivery available to the email address you provide.
Do not refresh the page. Your progress will be lost. This assessment cannot be paused.
7-dimensional profile, estimated IQ result, certificate of completion, and full report emailed on completion
A rating of 70% means: "If I answered 100 similar questions at this confidence level, I would be correct approximately 70 times." Be honest — calibration accuracy is measured separately from answer quality.