The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, proposed by psychologist Howard Gardner, suggests that intelligence is divided into eight distinct areas, and each person's unique combination of these areas defines their intellectual profile. By taking this test, you can discover your scores across these eight types of intelligence.
Words, numbers, music, and relationships offer different clues to your strengths. Answer 50 questions about yourself to explore scores and explanations across eight areas of intelligence.
Choose responses that reflect your usual interests and behavior.
See how the tendencies in your answers appear across the eight scores.
Read about each area and career examples shown according to your scores.
Your results highlight your highest-scoring area and show scores and characteristics for all eight areas. Individual detail pages also introduce career examples and advice for each area.
Multiple intelligences theory describes intellectual capacities across several areas. In this framework, strength or difficulty in one area does not determine a person’s entire intellectual profile.
Psychologist Howard Gardner proposed seven intelligences in his book Frames of Mind.
Naturalistic intelligence was added. This test covers the resulting eight areas.
These are eight areas of capacity that coexist within a person, rather than eight personality types. Keep the theoretical framework separate from the scores produced by this website’s questionnaire.
Explore what each area involves and how it might appear in everyday life. Follow the links for more detailed descriptions.
Working with the meaning and expression of language to communicate ideas through speech and writing. It involves understanding text and choosing how to convey a message.
Explain an event in an order that helps someone follow it.
Recognizing patterns, numerical relationships, and logical connections. It involves comparing information, reasoning about causes, and testing ideas.
Find an answer that fits several conditions without contradiction.
Understanding shapes and spatial relationships and forming mental images. It is involved in reading maps and diagrams or imagining an arrangement.
Picture a room’s layout before moving the furniture.
Coordinating the body or hands to create, perform, or solve a practical problem. Timing movements and handling tools are examples of its use.
Adjust hand pressure to shape a material into a finished object.
Recognizing differences in pitch, rhythm, and melody and expressing ideas through music. Listening, performing, and composing can all involve this capacity.
Notice a change in a song’s rhythm and keep time with it.
Understanding other people’s feelings and intentions and interacting with them. It involves noticing different perspectives and finding ways to cooperate.
Recognize what matters to another person during a discussion.
Understanding your own feelings, values, and goals. It involves recognizing what matters to you and using that awareness to guide choices.
Reflect on why a decision feels difficult and clarify your priorities.
Noticing, distinguishing, and classifying features of living things and the natural world. Close observation of natural differences is central to this area.
Compare leaf shapes and habitats to distinguish plants.
A single activity can draw on several areas. These examples illustrate the theory; they are not scoring formulas or career suitability assessments.
LinguisticInterpersonalNotice the other person’s reactions while putting clear questions into words.
Visual-SpatialBodily-KinestheticImagine the finished shape and coordinate your hands to bring it into form.
You may score highly in several areas. Look at the whole pattern rather than defining yourself only by your highest score.
This test organizes your answers about interests and everyday behavior. It does not measure performance through practical tasks, and its scores are not IQ scores or population rankings.
Your opportunities to practice and your self-perception can affect your answers. A lower score does not mean you lack potential, and a higher score does not guarantee success. Compare the descriptions with real experiences.
A musical score does not mean you should learn only through audio. Fixed learning styles are a different idea from multiple intelligences. Career examples illustrate uses of an area; they do not determine which careers you can pursue.
Multiple intelligences is one theoretical framework for understanding intellectual capacities. This questionnaire was not developed or endorsed by Howard Gardner.
