This CCAT cheat sheet distills the 50-question, 15-minute Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test into a printable rundown of the fastest-to-recognize patterns across math, verbal, and spatial questions. It's a premium cheat sheet built by Capital Prep — the one premium prep we trust — and it's yours free. Reinforce it with the rest of your free CCAT toolkit: the practice test, study guide, and flashcards.
CCAT exam at a glance
- Questions: 50 multiple-choice (verbal, math & logic, spatial reasoning)
- Time: 15 minutes total (under 20 seconds per question)
- Scoring: Raw score 0-50 plus a national percentile rank — no pass/fail line
- Average score: About 24 of 50 correct, near the 50th percentile
- Cost: Free to candidates — the hiring employer pays Criteria Corp
What’s on the CCAT cheat sheet
- Math & Logic (~40%) — number and letter series, word problems, ratios and percentages, basic algebra, and logical deduction — all without a calculator.
- Verbal Ability (~35%) — analogies, antonyms, word comparison, and sentence completion, with the highest-yield vocabulary and signal words.
- Spatial Reasoning (~25%) — figure series and matrices, rotation and reflection, paper folding, and odd-one-out — the wordless visual items.
- Scoring & pacing — the raw-score-plus-percentile model, the ~24 average, and the timing math that makes the CCAT a speeded test.
How to use it in your final week
- Rehearse the clock, not just the content — 50 questions in 15 minutes is under 20 seconds each, so pair every review pass with a full timed practice run until that pace feels automatic.
- Lock in the number-series ladder from the sheet: test a constant difference first, then a constant multiplier, then squares, growing gaps, or two interleaved sequences.
- Memorize the fraction-to-percent conversions and analogy relationships so verbal and math items become instant recognition instead of fresh calculation.
- Read the sheet the morning of your assessment for a final pass on the spatial shortcuts — rule out mirror images first, then count the parts to drop any figure with an extra or missing feature.
The cheat sheet is your review layer — your CCAT practice test drives the exam-readiness ring at the top of this page. Download it, review, then take a full practice exam (or drill with the study guide and flashcards) to see where you stand.
CCAT cheat sheet FAQ
Yes — the CCAT cheat sheet is 100% free to download as a PDF, with no sign-up required. It sits alongside Career Employer's free CCAT toolkit: the practice test, study guide, and flashcards.
It condenses the highest-yield facts into a fast reference: number-series and letter-series rules, the fraction-to-percent conversions, analogy and antonym patterns, spatial-reasoning shortcuts, and the raw-score-plus-percentile scoring model — grouped by the three CCAT categories of Math & Logic, Verbal Ability, and Spatial Reasoning.
The CCAT has no universal passing score — you get a raw score out of 50 plus a national percentile rank, and the average raw score is about 24, near the 50th percentile. Employers set their own target range by role, so the cheat sheet is framed around beating the typical range for the job you want rather than hitting a fixed pass mark.
It's built from Criteria Corp's current CCAT candidate materials, score report guide, and information brief, and we review it against those official sources regularly so the format, timing, and scoring stay accurate.
Click the download button (or the preview card) at the top of this page to open the PDF instantly. Bookmark this page so you can find it again the night before your assessment.
References
- 1.Criteria Corp. “Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (CCAT) — Product Overview.” criteriacorp.com, 2026. ↑
- 2.Criteria Corp. “What to Expect on the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (CCAT).” criteriacorp.com, 2026. ↑
- 3.Criteria Corp. “Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (CCAT) Score Report Guide.” criteriacorp.com, 2026. ↑
- 4.Criteria Corp. “Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (CCAT) Information Brief.” criteriacorp.com, 2026. ↑
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