IQ Test for Job Seekers

Job seekers can take this IQ test in about 12 minutes to see how they handle the kind of timed reasoning many employers now test.

What's your IQ?

Take the IQ test

25 questions · about 12 minutes

What would you score? Try question 1.

Which option completes the grid? One tap, no sign-up.

The test at a glance

Questions: 25 visual puzzles
Question types: 5 sets, each easy to hard
Time: 12-minute timer
Scoring: Same for every age, not age-adjusted
Cost: No sign-up to start. When you finish, you choose a report to see your result.

Scores are not age-normed, and this is not a clinical or diagnostic test.

If you are applying for graduate schemes, office roles or anything with an online assessment stage, you may be asked to sit a cognitive ability test. That is why so many people search for an "IQ test for a job interview".

This page explains how employer tests differ from IQ tests, and where ours fits.

IQ tests and employer tests

Inductive or abstract reasoning tests are the closest to our puzzles. But ours is not a copy of any employer's test, and a result here says nothing certain about how you will score on theirs.

Wonderlic: a classic hiring test with 50 questions in 12 minutes, mixing words, numbers and logic. Try a free Wonderlic practice test.
CCAT (Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test): 50 questions in 15 minutes, covering verbal, maths and spatial reasoning. Try a free CCAT practice test.
SHL and similar graduate tests: separate numerical, verbal and inductive (pattern) reasoning tests, usually taken online at home.

How much do employers rely on them?

Cognitive tests were long seen as the best single predictor of job performance. A famous 1998 review by Frank Schmidt and John Hunter put the correlation at about 0.51.

A 2022 reanalysis by Paul Sackett and colleagues revised it down to about 0.31. Still useful, but in their ranking it came below structured interviews.

How this test works for job seekers

It is timed, like most employer tests, and visual, like the inductive reasoning sections. That makes it a reasonable way to see how you handle the format under a clock.

Your result is private. Nothing is sent to employers.
Employers do not accept online IQ scores. You will take their own test.
Knowing what timed reasoning feels like helps with nerves. The ability underneath changes little with practice.

What scores mean for job seekers

Employer tests usually report a percentile against a comparison group, such as graduate applicants, not an IQ. On a population IQ scale, the 70th percentile is about 108. On a graduate test, the 70th percentile means beating 70% of other graduates, which is a stronger group, so the two numbers are not interchangeable.