Method
How the test works.
Quotient is built the way reasoning tests have been built for decades: several short subtests, items that grow harder, a time limit, and scores standardised against a norm group.
Four subtests
01
10
Matrices
Each grid follows rules along its rows and down its columns: a shape, a number of figures, a fill, a turn. The bottom-right cell is missing. Pick the figure that fits every rule.
02
7
Number series
Each series follows one rule. It may add, multiply, grow its steps, or weave two series together. Find the rule and the missing number.
03
7
Spatial
Shapes made of squares are turned, never flipped. Picture the shape turning in your head and find the one that matches. Watch out for mirror images.
04
6
Verbal
Analogies, the odd one out and short logic. Read every option before you choose.
From answers to a score
- 01
Fresh questions every time
Matrices, number series and spatial items are generated from rules for each test, at set levels of difficulty; verbal items come from a reviewed question bank. No two tests are the same, and no answer can be looked up.
- 02
Scored on the server
Your browser only ever sees the questions. The answers are checked on our server, and your result is sealed until you open the report.
- 03
Raw score to scaled score
Right answers are counted per subtest and compared with the norm group: a scaled score of 10 is average, 7 to 13 covers two thirds of people.
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Scaled to IQ
The total is placed on the IQ scale, where 100 is average and 15 points is one standard deviation, with a 90 % confidence interval from the test's reliability.
What it can't tell you
- It isn't a clinical, educational or legal assessment, and can't diagnose anything.
- A single sitting is affected by sleep, stress, the device and distractions.
- It measures reasoning under time pressure, not creativity, knowledge, wisdom or character.
- Scores from different tests aren't directly comparable.
Quotient measures reasoning under time pressure. It is not a clinical or diagnostic assessment, and its score is no substitute for a test given in person by a qualified psychologist.
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