CCAT guides
Direct, sourced answers to the CCAT questions candidates ask most often, with original worked examples, explicit caveats, and timed practice links.
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- How many CCAT questions should you attempt?You should submit an answer for all 50 CCAT questions because wrong answers are not penalized, but most prepared candidates should plan to work deliberately through roughly 35–45 questions and use quick guesses on anything they cannot solve in time. Your best personal target is target correct answers divided by timed-practice accuracy: for example, a goal of 30 correct at 80% accuracy requires about 38 meaningful attempts. Do not sacrifice four solvable questions to finish one hard item, and fill every remaining blank before time expires.
- What is a good CCAT score?A CCAT raw score of 24 is average: Criteria reports a mean of 24.2 and a median of 24, and its sample report maps 24 correct answers to the 50th percentile. As a practical interpretation, 28–32 is above average and 35 or more is a strong result, but there is no universal passing score—each employer and role can use a different suggested range, and the employer should treat the CCAT as one input rather than the whole hiring decision.
- CCAT test format: questions, timing and pacingThe CCAT contains 50 multiple-choice questions in 15 minutes across verbal, math and logic, and spatial reasoning, with no calculator allowed and no penalty for wrong answers. The average time budget is 18 seconds per question, but fewer than 1% of candidates answer all 50; a better plan is to answer fast items immediately, guess and move on when the method is not clear, use three- or five-minute checkpoints, and reserve the final seconds to fill every blank.