CCAT Practice Test

A free CCAT practice test: 50 questions in 15 minutes, mixing verbal, math and logic, and spatial reasoning in one run, the way the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test does. The questions are generated for GamePrep, so every attempt is new, and your answers are marked on our server against a fixed score table. You get your number correct, a percentile, and a breakdown by question type.

What the CCAT is

The CCAT is Criteria Corp's pre-employment aptitude test. It is not a game and has no tutorial rounds: it is a single timed set of multiple-choice questions that measures problem solving, learning ability and critical thinking. Employers use it as an early screen, usually sent as an online link after you apply, because general aptitude is one of the better single predictors of how quickly someone learns a new job. Criteria also sells a game-based test, Cognify, which prepares differently (see our Cognify guide).

CCAT format

Why you will not finish

Almost nobody finishes the CCAT, and it is built that way. Eighteen seconds a question is tight even for the easy items, and the harder ones take far longer. A perfect score is extremely rare. The CCAT is also widely reported not to let you go back to an earlier question, so every skip is final. This practice test works the same way: what you skip stays skipped.

What is a good CCAT score?

The average raw score is commonly reported as about 24 out of 50. A score of 31 or more is generally considered strong (around the top 15–20%), and anything in the high 30s or 40s is exceptional. Employers set their own target by role: analytical, technical and finance roles usually ask for more than support or entry-level roles. Our percentile comes from a fixed table built on those commonly reported figures, not from Criteria's own norms.

Who uses the CCAT?

It is popular with software and technology companies, fast-growing start-ups and firms hiring at volume for sales, customer success, operations, analyst and management roles. Because it is short and unproctored, it often sits right after the application form, before any interview. If your invitation says "Criteria" or "CCAT", this is the format; if it names the Wonderlic, use our Wonderlic-style practice test instead, which is the same kind of mix with a 12-minute clock.

How to approach it

• Keep moving. Give a question about 30 seconds at most. Past that, guess and go: the score counts right answers only, so a guess costs nothing.
• Know the question types before the day. Recognising "a number series" or "a syllogism" in the first second saves time on every item.
• Estimate. Most numerical options are far enough apart that rounding picks the right one.
• Read the whole question once. Many misses are a "NOT" or an "opposite" skimmed over, not a hard calculation.
• Watch your weakest family. The result screen splits your score by verbal, numerical, logic and spatial. Drill the low one: our numerical reasoning, inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning tests each go deeper on one area.

How this practice differs from the real CCAT

Our spatial questions are text-based (rotations, routes, mirrored letters and cubes) rather than the picture-based shape series and matrices the real test uses. Our difficulty follows a fixed five-step ramp instead of Criteria's calibration on real candidates. What carries over is the part that decides most scores: pace, the habit of skipping, and switching between words, numbers and logic every few seconds. More background is in our CCAT guide and the Wonderlic test guide.

GamePrep is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Criteria Corp. "CCAT" and "Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test" are used only to describe the test format this practice follows. No question here is a real or leaked CCAT question, and no practice test can guarantee a score.