By taking my tests you agree to abide by these rules. Their purpose is to prevent certain types of problems that have occurred in the past. The essential points are summarized first because it is a long read.
Measures taken against serious offenders include invalidation of one's score, exclusion from further test scoring, expulsion from IQ societies and exposition of one's unethical behaviour on a public web site.
Test scoring and score reporting come with the absolute and unconditional guarantee of sincerity and objectivity, which also implies that each test submission is scored independently of one's earlier scores; in other words, earlier scores have no influence on later scores.
Some testees find their score is lower than expected. This is normal and the result of being blind to one's errors, like one can sometimes not find a lost object although it is staring one in the face. Naturally there will be no discussion with you about your answers or the construction of the test, and no "independent committee" to decide if your answers are better than mine. It will also not be revealed which test problems you had wrong.
The page with statistics and norms contains ALL of the available information on that aspect of the tests. It is not possible to predict when a new statistical report for a given test will appear because that depends on incoming test submissions. A first report is usually published after 30 submissions; a next report, normally with statistics of higher quality, after 60.
Some of the tests are accepted by various societies while other are not; it is up to the society in question to decide which tests are accepted.
You can take each test only once, except when mentioned otherwise on the test.
Test scores are final, not open to debate. Accusations that the test was scored dishonestly are not acceptable and will have consequences for the accuser. The same for outrageous demands for a higher score, and for attempts to intimidate, bully or threaten the scorer into reporting a higher score.
Candidates who, before taking a test, ask for or try to trick the scorer into revealing correct answers to test problems, or into giving help in finding those, will either not receive a reply, or receive a reply which may be true or false to prevent them from inferring anything from the reply or its absence. This also means it will not be confirmed if particular answers are correct, either before or after the test submission. This also means it will not be revealed what the score of a particular set of answers would be when submitted; showing that set of answers means submitting it.
Report your age with each test submission as asked in the test instruction; note that age is not date of birth. An example of an age is "34". Even though age is explicitly requested in every test, about half of the candidates neglect to report it, which is why a penalty of 10 (ten) IQ points has been effective regarding this omission for all test submissions scored after March 31, 2007.
When asked for prior scores, mention ALL you have, including names of tests and which score belongs to which test. Withholding one's lower scores inflates possible norms based on prior scores. So report all, and abstain from judgment like "this score is not valid so I had better not report it because it would be unusable". A particular prior score needs to be reported only once; it is not needed to report the same score with each new test submission.
Some are reluctant to report prior scores, thinking those will influence their scores on the present test. Apparently these people think their prior scores will somehow be averaged to arrive at a score on the present test, instead of the actual score being reported. Probably they have (in their view) low prior scores and expect to score very high now, and think "if he sees my prior scores he will not believe I have honestly reached this very high score on his test, and give me a lower score than I deserve". This way of thinking betrays what the person in question would do in the scorer's place - "ill doers are ill deemers"; it betrays lack of ethics and intelligence.
Additional answers or corrections received after or apart from the actual submission are not used in scoring. This is so because it would be impossible to treat such consistently; no received submission could ever be scored, as there might always be an additional answer yet to come. For information, such answers are nearly always wrong, being the result of one's imagination running wild. Submitting one's answers is saying "these are my final answers", and that one and final submission is considered scored the moment it is received.
In case the above is not clear: Once the submission has been scored and reported on, rescoring it based on additional answers would mean to give the candidate information about the correctness of those answers (which is not acceptable) and to allow a retest (idem). This paragraph also contains the answer to questions like "What happened to the 'No time limit' clause? I thought I could take as much time I wanted to send answers?".
Then there are those who say, "Then only use additional answers received before you have scored the submission, and do not use those you receive after having scored it". But that would not be fair as it would mean to treat candidates unequally; For instance, candidate A submits answers while I happen to be working so that I can score them at once, and candidate B submits answers while I am away for the day so that I can score them only the next day. Then candidate B has a whole day more to submit additional answers that would occur to the good candidate, and the conditions are unequal. Therefore every submission must be considered scored the moment it is received, regardless the actual date and time of scoring.
Then one could say, "Then allow a fixed amount of time for additional answers". But that is what I am already doing; to wit, zero days, zero hours, zero minutes, zero seconds and zero milliseconds. This is logically the only consistent thing to do.
It is not possible to send answers conditionally: "Don't score these answers if..." (they contain errors, the score is lower than..., a retest is not allowed, etcetera). When answers are received they are scored, period.
It is not allowed to discuss test items, answers, alternative answers etcetera with anyone, either before, during or after taking a test, and regardless if one intends to take the test. Just give the answer that seems best.
It is possible to include explanations or comments with one's submission, which may help to detect bad items but not influence the score. There will be no response back on those comments. Make sure to distinguish the comments from the answers; Only the answers are scored and yield credit, never the comments. A possible score based on explanations or comments would not be comparable to the scores of any other candidates, and it would be impossible to have norms for such incomparable scores. Possible bad items are removed or revised in a future revision of the test, after which the test is renormed.
Some think they see alternative or multiple possible correct answers. In most cases this is because one is overlooking something or making a reasoning error. In some cases it is true, and those problems are then treated as bad items, as explained under "Explanations and comments".
It is not allowed to publish tests or test items and/or answers in any way, for instance on Internet message boards, regardless if the answers are correct.
When reference aids or reference books are allowed, this includes the Internet, unless otherwise indicated.