How many questions is the CCAT, and how long do you get?

50 questions in 15 minutes — 18 seconds each. Criteria Corp says fewer than 1% of candidates answer all of them.

Can you use a calculator on the CCAT?

No. Criteria Corp states plainly that no calculators are allowed, which is why the arithmetic on the real test is ordinary and the pressure is the clock.

Do wrong answers count against you?

No. Criteria states there is no penalty for an incorrect response, so an answer you are unsure of costs nothing that a blank would not.

Are these the real questions?

No, and nobody publishing the real ones would be doing so lawfully. Every question here is original, written to the published format — the counts, the clock and the question types — so that practising it feels like the real thing rather than reproducing it.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up and nothing to buy. Your scores are kept in your own browser and never sent anywhere.

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50 questions, 15 minutes, 18 seconds each — the clock the real test runs. Nothing to sign up for.

CCAT full-length practice

50 questions. 15 minutes.

That is 18 seconds a question. The clock starts when you press the button and submits the test when it runs out. You will not be told whether an answer was right until the end — that is the point of a timed run.

18s a question No calculator No penalty for a wrong answer — fill the blanks at the end No account, nothing saved off your device

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Practise one type at a time

The timed test tells you where you stand. These tell you what to do about it: short untimed sets with the explanation right after each answer, which is the one thing a timed run cannot give you.

Criteria Corp does not publish how many questions of each type the real test contains, so no page here invents a number — the full test above deals the types evenly.

Verbal Word meaning under time: antonyms, analogies, and sentences with a word missing Math and logic Arithmetic without a calculator, number series, and short word problems Spatial reasoning Rotated shapes, the odd figure out, and what comes next in a sequence

Why 18 seconds is the whole test

Open any single question on this site and it is unremarkable: an opposite, an average, a shape turned around. That is not a weakness of the practice material, it is the design of the test. Criteria Corp is not asking whether you can find the average of four numbers. It is asking how many ordinary things you can do correctly in 15 minutes.

Which means the practice that transfers is not "learn harder questions". It is: recognise the type in the first two seconds, decide immediately whether this is one you can do, and leave the ones that would eat thirty seconds. A person who answers 30 questions and gets 28 right beats a person who answers 40 and gets 24.

Criteria Corp publishes the average: 24 correct out of 50. It also publishes that fewer than 1% of candidates answer every question. Both numbers are worth carrying into the room, because the instinct to finish is exactly what the clock is built to punish.

Frequently asked

How many questions is the CCAT, and how long do you get?: 50 questions in 15 minutes — 18 seconds each. Criteria Corp says fewer than 1% of candidates answer all of them.
Can you use a calculator on the CCAT?: No. Criteria Corp states plainly that no calculators are allowed, which is why the arithmetic on the real test is ordinary and the pressure is the clock.
Do wrong answers count against you?: No. Criteria states there is no penalty for an incorrect response, so an answer you are unsure of costs nothing that a blank would not.
Are these the real questions?: No, and nobody publishing the real ones would be doing so lawfully. Every question here is original, written to the published format — the counts, the clock and the question types — so that practising it feels like the real thing rather than reproducing it.
Do I need an account?: No. There is no sign-up and nothing to buy. Your scores are kept in your own browser and never sent anywhere.

Not sure which test you are sitting?

The invitation email usually names it, and the two are easy to tell apart once you know what to look for — 15 minutes for the CCAT against 12 for the Wonderlic, and different publishers behind them.

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Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the date it was read. Requirements change; if a source has moved on since that date, the source is right and this page is out of date.

Criteria Corp — What to Expect on the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (CCAT) Read August 25, 2026

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