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Test designers take great pains to make up questions that should be largely universal and almost entirely unaffected by amount of education.

Test designers purport to do that, but it's a generally replicated research finding that increased exposure to schooling, cross-culturally and across different brands of IQ tests, improves IQ test scores. See

Ceci, Stephen J. (1991). How Much Does Schooling Influence General Intelligence and Its Cognitive Components? A Reassessment of the Evidence. Developmental Psychology 1991, Vol. 27, No. 5, 703-722

for one classic paper on this subject.

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