Predictive Index test practice: free PI Cognitive Assessment-style questions

Practise for the PI Cognitive Assessment, the 12-minute cognitive test many employers send to job applicants, with original verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning questions. Start with 5 free questions, then take two full timed tests of 50 questions in 12 minutes, the real pace of about 14 seconds per question, with an explanation for every answer and your score per area.

• 5 free questions
• 2 timed tests, 100 questions
• Real pace: 50 in 12 minutes
• Score per area
• Practice certificate PDF

PI Cognitive Assessment format and scoring

Source: The Predictive Index, predictiveindex.com/cognitive, the PI support article 'Introduction to the PI Cognitive Assessment' and the PI help article 'What is the PI Cognitive Assessment?', checked 31 October 2026. The Predictive Index publishes no average score.

What the three areas look like

• Verbal reasoning: word meanings and opposites, analogies (glove is to hand as sock is to ...), the odd word out, completing a sentence and putting people in order from two comparisons.
• Numerical reasoning: number series, percentages, fractions and decimals, averages, ratios and short word problems, solved in your head.
• Abstract reasoning: finding the rule in a pattern. On MyLevel every abstract question is in text: letter series, letter codes, letter analogies, the odd group out, repeating sequences, turns and short deductions (all, some, no; if ... then).

With 50 questions in 12 minutes you have about 14 seconds per question, so speed matters as much as accuracy. Only correct answers count, and The Predictive Index says the number you attempt is irrelevant, so do not stop on one hard question.

What you practise on MyLevel

Every MyLevel question is an original question written in the style of a cognitive job test, with one correct answer, three wrong ones and a short explanation of the quickest method. Every calculation and every letter series was re-checked by script. The two full tests have 50 questions in 12 minutes each, the real pace, with 17 verbal, 17 numerical and 16 abstract questions (MyLevel's own split; The Predictive Index does not publish one). After each test you see your score per area, so you know what to train.

The Predictive Index offers a few sample questions on its own site. MyLevel is a different, independent product: 2 timed practice tests for $9.99, a one-time payment with no subscription and no time limit, which also unlocks every other MyLevel job test, such as the CCAT practice test.

How to prepare for the Predictive Index test

• Train under the clock: take a full 12-minute MyLevel test, then read the explanation of every miss and retake. Your goal is more correct answers in the same time.
• Guess and move on: if a question takes more than about 20 seconds, pick your best guess and go on. A quick question later is worth the same.
• Know the number patterns: add or subtract a fixed step, double, growing steps (+1, +2, +3), squares (1, 4, 9, 16) and two series that alternate.
• Know the alphabet by position: A=1, E=5, J=10, O=15, T=20, Z=26 makes letter series and codes fast.
• Read deductions literally: 'some' means at least one; only pick a statement that must be true from what is given.

MyLevel's 60% target (30 of 50 correct) is our own practice target, not a PI score or an employer's target.

MyLevel is independent and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, The Predictive Index. Predictive Index and PI Cognitive Assessment are trademarks of their owner. All questions are original practice questions written by MyLevel in the style of a cognitive job test, not real PI questions, and a practice score is not a PI Cognitive Assessment score.

Sample question with explanation

Frequently asked questions

More practice tests