What Does a 108 IQ Mean?
A 108 IQ is in the average range. About 70 in 100 people score lower than 108. Clinical reports using the WISC-V or the traditional WAIS-IV wording would call 108 Average.
- Percentile
- 70.31
- How rare
- 1 in 3 score 108 or higher
- WISC-V wording
- Average
- Traditional wording (WAIS-IV)
- Average
- Distance from 100
- 0.53 SD above
- On an SD 16 test
- about 109
- On an SD 24 test
- about 113
- Our test's usual range here
- 96 to 120 (90%)
What does a 108 IQ mean?
A score of 108 is 0.53 standard deviations above the average of 100. On most IQ tests one standard deviation, the typical distance from the average, is 15 points, so 108 is 8 points away.
108 sits near the top of the 90 to 109 band, 2 points below the next band up. About 49 in 100 people score from 90 to 109, the average band that holds 108.
What percentile is an IQ of 108?
A score of 108 is at the 70.31st percentile. That percentile is the share of people who score lower than 108, not the share of questions right. Five points higher, 113 is at the 80.69th percentile. Five points lower, 103 is at the 57.93rd percentile. Across those ten points around 108, the percentile moves by 22.77.
How rare is an IQ of 108?
About 1 in 3 people score 108 or higher. In a town of 100,000 people, about 30,000 would score 108 or higher.
For every 100 people who score exactly 100, about 87 score exactly 108. These figures for 108 come from the normal curve that IQ scales are built on, and the IQ calculator works out any other score.
What would 108 be on other tests?
Not every test would print 108 for this position. Older Stanford-Binet forms and many school tests use a standard deviation of 16; there, the same position as 108 is about 109. On a scale with a standard deviation of 24, used by the Cattell test, it is about 113. 108, 109 and 113 all mean the same percentile.
Is 108 a good IQ score?
The scale does not grade the person behind a 108; it places one result among other people’s results. 108 is inside the average band, 90 to 109, where about half of all people score. What a 108 is useful for depends on the purpose, and a single online result is too rough for decisions about school, work or support. A 108 describes some kinds of reasoning on one test, on one day, and leaves out a great deal that matters, such as effort, knowledge and character.
How close is 108 to the average?
108 is 8 points above the exact middle, 100. That gap is 0.53 of a standard deviation, which is small. Our average IQ guide explains why the middle stays at 100.
What does an online result of 108 mean?
An online result of 108 is an estimate. When our test shows 108, the estimated range next to it is usually about 96 to 120. That range for 108 is provisional: it comes from our scoring model and a simulation, not yet from real test takers. Our methodology shows how the range is made.
An unsupervised online 108 may also run a little high: a large review found a gap of about 3 IQ points. Taking the same kind of test again usually raises a score like 108 a little, mostly on the first retakes. Our guide are IQ tests accurate covers this in depth.
To see where your own result falls next to 108, take the free IQ test. It has 30 questions and shows an estimated range with every result.
Scores near 108
- 106 IQ: 2 points lower, at the 65.54th percentile.
- 107 IQ: 1 point lower, at the 67.96th percentile.
- 109 IQ: 1 point higher, at the 72.57th percentile.
- 110 IQ: 2 points higher, at the 74.75th percentile.
Look up any score from 70 to 160, not only those near 108, in the score explorer.
FAQ
What percentile is 108 IQ?
A score of 108 is at the 70.31st percentile. That means about 70.31 percent of people score lower.
Is 108 IQ average?
Yes. 108 is inside the 90 to 109 band, where about half of all people score.
How many people have an IQ of 108?
On a whole-number scale, about 2.3 percent of people score exactly 108. About 1 in 3 people score 108 or higher.
Can an online test show 108?
Yes, as an estimate with a range: on our test a 108 usually comes with an estimated range of about 96 to 120.