Crossover makes you pass the CCAT twice: once alone, and again with an examiner watching

Crossover screens with the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test itself: 50 questions, 15 minutes, verbal, math and logic, and spatial items mixed together. Our CCAT practice test copies that length, clock and mix with original questions, so it is the closest rehearsal we offer for both the first sitting and the proctored repeat.

We cannot reproduce Crossover's English test, its role-specific skills steps or the live examiner who watches the proctored retake. Crossover sets its own target range per role and does not publish it, so our estimated percentile tells you where you stand, not whether you clear a particular job's bar.

Crossover calls the proctored test the final verification step in its hiring process. It is held back for people already under final consideration, and it repeats the CCAT you took at the start, this time while a person watches you through your camera. The point is plain: the first score was unsupervised, and Crossover wants to see you produce something close to it again.

That changes how you should treat the first attempt. A score inflated by a helper, a second device or a lucky streak becomes a liability, because you will have to match it later under observation. Aim for a first score you could reproduce on an ordinary day, then build your margin through practice before the second sitting arrives.

Crossover sets a target for each role rather than one company-wide cut-off, and it does not publish the figures. Its help pages explain that it only hires candidates with high cognitive aptitude, which tells you the bar sits above average rather than at it.

For context, Criteria's own sample report puts the median at 24 out of 50. Prep sites often quote 35 out of 50 as Crossover's minimum, but they do not show where that number comes from, and because ranges differ by role it may not apply to yours. Treat 35 as a stretch goal, not a rule. Our CCAT score percentile guide shows how raw scores map onto percentiles.

Crossover allows one CCAT attempt per email address in a six-month period. It explains the wait as a cooling-off period: the test measures aptitude rather than knowledge, so, in its view, a few days of cramming will not move the result. It also warns that applying under extra email addresses to dodge the wait will get your application rejected.

The practical reading is that your first sitting is the one that counts for half a year. Do your preparation before you click the link, not after a disappointing result.

Crossover's pages do not fully agree. One help article says assessment badges stay valid for six months and can be applied to a new application. A support article says you must retake every exam when you apply to another opening, while also saying that someone who passed the CCAT and English tests may apply to other roles at once.

Because a higher-paid role may carry a higher target range, assume you could be asked to test again and keep your timing sharp. If the distinction matters to your plans, ask Crossover's support team before you apply to the second role.

Fifty questions in fifteen minutes is eighteen seconds each if you spread the clock evenly, and Criteria says very few people answer everything. Wrong answers carry no penalty, so a guess always beats a blank. The usual trap is spending a full minute on one spatial puzzle and losing four easier verbal items at the end.

Our free CCAT practice test runs the same clock with original questions. Take it once cold, note which family slows you down, then drill that family before you sit Crossover's version.

• Verbal items (antonyms, analogies, sentence completion) are usually the quickest points.
• Math word problems reward estimating before you calculate; no calculator is allowed.
• Spatial series reward checking one change at a time: shape, count, shading, rotation.

These come from anonymous reviews, university careers pages and prep guides. They often disagree, and Crossover has not confirmed them. Read them as leads, not rules.

• Prep sites commonly quote 35 out of 50 as the Crossover minimum, though none of them cite a Crossover source for it.
• Prep sites disagree on a failed proctored attempt: one says you cannot sit again for six months, another says you are disqualified and may reapply after six months.