The minimum scores for ACT are 18 for Reading Section, 17 for English Section, and 19 for Math Section. The SAT is usually taken in the early fall (October or November) of the senior year. A number of juniors take the test in the late spring (May or June) and take it again in the senior year.
An IQ score of 115 means performance one standard deviation above the median, a score of 85 performance one standard deviation below the median, and so on. Lewis Terman and other early developers of IQ tests noticed that most child IQ scores come out to approximately the same number by either procedure.
How an IQ Test is Scored. The term IQ actually stands for intelligence quotient. To determine a person's IQ, a person's mental age is multiplied by 100 and then divided by the chronological age. The average IQ is said to be 100, so anything above that is considered above average. The range of what is considered developmentally disabled is thought to be anything below 70. Most people who are considered geniuses have IQs above 145. What an IQ Test Does Not Measure.