Spot the pattern, pick the missing piece. It's reasoning with patterns you've never seen. The test adjusts to you, harder when you're getting them right and easier when you're not, so it finds your level in about twelve minutes.
Finding the missing piece of a pattern is the classic way to test reasoning. Raven's Progressive Matrices, one of the best-known tests there is, is 60 puzzles like these and nothing else.
All 219 puzzles were tried by med-school applicants before we used them, so we know how hard each one really is. Nothing is in there on a hunch.
Get one right and the next is harder. Miss one and it eases off. Your time goes on puzzles that tell us something, so 24 of them do the job of 60 fixed ones.
You get a puzzle level from 1 to 10. Your level is the hardest band of puzzles you solve about 7 times in 10, and we tell you how that compares with med-school applicants, a strong group.
Adding shapes, Taking away, Keeping what differs, Keeping what’s shared, Turning and One of each. Every puzzle mixes some of these, so your report shows which ones come easily to you and which trip you up.
With a free account you can take the test once every 30 days to track your level. From the day you sign up we remember every puzzle you've seen and never show you one twice. There are 218 in all. After four or five tests your likely range gets a little wider, because the most useful puzzles are used up. A free test taken before you sign up isn't linked to you, so it can repeat puzzles.
The puzzles, how hard each one is and the study behind them are all public. You can read the paper before you start, and check our working afterwards.
Your puzzle level, 1 to 10, and how you compare with med-school applicants, a strong group. Said plainly, up front.
About twelve minutes. Each puzzle is picked to sit right at the edge of what you can do, so some will feel tricky. That's how it finds your level.
We look at which puzzles you solved and how hard each one is, and turn that into a level from 1 to 10.
Your puzzle level, how you compare with med-school applicants, the puzzles you climbed through, and how you did on each of the six patterns.
It gave me a level I actually understood and told me exactly who I was compared with. That made me trust the rest of it.
Twelve minutes and it had found my level. The puzzles got tricky quickly, but it never felt unfair.
I looked up the paper they cite before starting. It exists, it says what they say it says. Refreshing.
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