Scores on the SAT do correlate with scores on IQ tests and other standardized tests of intelligence. This is unsurprising considering that the SAT was originally derived from an IQ test for army recruits.

Is SAT correlated with intelligence?

Now, fifteen years after that work, researchers have confirmed the principal finding, yielding correlations between intelligence and the SAT of roughly 0.5 to 0.9, depending upon sample and the way in which intelligence is defined [3,4,5].

Can SAT predict IQ?

The simple correlations between SAT and IQ (or whatever measure was reported for the IQ test) for small-N intelligence tests ranged from . 53 to . 82 for participants who had taken the SAT and also had another IQ test score reported in their school records.