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If only life were that simple. There will be insanely smart people who do pretty modestly on that test, and pretty dense people who test well. You will likely have classmates in both groups. And there are always folks who study as hard as they can and can't make that score budge. It is not an IQ test.
Of course it's not an IQ test. But certain parts of the test require reasoning ability that people with higher IQs will handle better. And of course you'll see smart people who do poorly, etc. That why it isn't a test of an individual's intelligence. Hence the word "correlation."
EDIT: As I sit here cramming the yummy goodness that is cranial anatomy into my brain [weird to think I am thinking about what I think with], I realized I am actually trying to convince people on the internet that smarter people do better on tests. This is probably the most ridiculous argument I have ever had with anyone!