Practice for employer tests

CCAT-style practice test (unofficial): 50 questions in 15 minutes

Unofficial practice. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Criteria Corp. Original questions in a 50-question, 15-minute mixed format.

Short answer: the CCAT is Criteria Corp's pre-employment test of 50 questions in 15 minutes, covering verbal, math and logic, and spatial reasoning, taken without a calculator. Criteria says fewer than 1% of candidates answer all 50. This page is unofficial practice at that pace with original MyTestAtlas questions. It reports how many you got right and how far you got, not a CCAT score or a percentile.

Source, read 17 October 2026: Criteria says the CCAT has 50 questions in 15 minutes, covers verbal, math and logic, and spatial reasoning, allows no calculator, and that fewer than 1% of candidates answer all 50.

How this format works

The paper deals 50 questions on one 15-minute clock, about 18 seconds each, with words, numbers, logic and shapes mixed together rather than in sections. There is no calculator: the arithmetic is small enough to do in your head or on scrap paper, and the speed of choosing what to work out is what the clock tests.

Criteria does not publish a split between the kinds of question, so the mix here is our choice, dealt fresh and in a new order each sitting:

• 18 × following a short instruction exactly
• 10 × short word problems: percentages, ratios, averages, rates
• 6 × number series
• 6 × figure series: which tile comes next
• 6 × figure odd one out
• 4 × letter series

This paper has no vocabulary questions, such as word meanings or opposites; a mixed employer test may include them, so check your invitation. Practise those with the vocabulary test and verbal analogies.

The format in brief

Published format

Criteria says the CCAT has 50 questions in 15 minutes, covers verbal, math and logic, and spatial reasoning, allows no calculator, and that fewer than 1% of candidates answer all 50.

What this copies

The pace and the mix of question kinds, on its own clock. Never stretched.

What it does not copy

The questions, the scoring, and any percentile or norm group.

Sittings

50 questions · 15 minutes.

Whose test

Unofficial practice; not affiliated with or endorsed by Criteria Corp. Original questions.

Three quick questions, worked

Each is the length a 15-minute paper allows: read it once, work it in your head, and choose.

A word problem

A number series

Following directions

Fifteen minutes for fifty questions

At 18 seconds a question nobody is meant to finish, and Criteria says most candidates do not. The score that matters is how many you get right, so the skill is skipping well: if a question has not given way in about 30 seconds, choose your best option and move on.

On this paper questions do not get steadily harder: the kinds are mixed from start to finish, so a long one early is not a sign of things to come, and an easy question late is worth exactly as much as a hard one early.

What the result tells you

You see how many you got right, which question you reached, your seconds per question against the 18-second pace, and every question again with its working.

It is not a CCAT score. There is no norm group behind these questions, so there is no percentile, no pass mark and no estimate of a real score.