Raven's Matrices Test Prep 2026: Adaptive Practice Learning
Raven's Matrices Test Prep 2026: Adaptive Practice Learning
Updated: October, 2026 | Trusted by over 1,600 Candidates
The Raven's Matrices Adaptive PrepPack™ is our Raven test prep for the Advanced (APM) and Standard (SPM) Progressive Matrices. It starts with a short simulation that shows your current level, then adjusts every session to the rules you find hardest.
You get over 700 practice questions, a report after every session and a study plan built around your test date. As the test gets closer, sessions shift to full-length, timed simulations. Not sure yet? Try the sample questions below.
To maximize your score we offer access to a specialized Raven Progressive Matrices Test Preparation simulating the popular Raven's advanced progressive matrices (APM) and standard progressive matrices (SPM), with online practice tests, strategies and tips to improve results and cut down solving time.
Discover the Raven’s Matrices Adaptive PrepPack™ and turn every practice session into progress.
1-Month Access
- Adaptive learning sessions that adjust to your answers, with detailed insights on every report
- Over 700 practice questions across both Standard and Advanced Raven's Matrices, in repeatable sessions
- Full-length Raven's Matrices simulations as test day approaches, with detailed explanations
- A study plan built around your test date
- Progress Score and Relative Score after every session, so you can see how you rank against other candidates
What is the Raven Progressive Matrices Test?
The Raven Test, also known as Raven's Progressive Matrices Test, is a nonverbal exam designed to examine fluid intelligence and abstract reasoning abilities- the ability to solve novel problems non-dependent on existing knowledge.
It is considered the most researched general mental ability test (GMA), from which many abstract reasoning tests (including the Matrigma Test) were developed.
Raven's Sample Question Examples
Matrix Example
Observe the following matrix:
Which of the following can fill in the blank?
Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices Test Questions
The Raven APM test consists of 23 questions to be answered in 40 minutes. On each question, your task is to identify the displayed pattern in a 3X3 matrix and select the correct tile to complete it.
These are the type of matrices questions you can expect:
The correct answer is:
The third image in the first two rows is the result of taking the left half of the first image and then filling the square with vertical lines. Thus, the third image in the bottom row must be the result of taking the left half of the first image and then filling in the square with vertical lines.
💡Quick Solving Tip: When an image looks crowded, split it into its parts and follow each part on its own. One usually changes along the columns and the other along the rows..
The correct answer is:
Each shape is divided into three parts, two outer parts and a middle part. The shape itself follows the columns: a four-sided shape in the first column, a triangle in the second, and two triangles meeting at a point in the third. The outer parts also follow the columns: white, hatched, then black. The middle part follows the rows: white in the first row, hatched in the second, black in the third. The missing image is in the third column and the third row, so it is the two-triangle shape with its outer and middle parts all black. Therefore, the correct answer is option 3.
💡Quick Solving Tip:Quick Solving Tip: Track each feature on its own: the shape, the fill of the outer parts and the fill of the middle part. Each one usually follows either the rows or the columns.
The correct answer is
Each image is made of horizontal and vertical lines, and the two sets change in opposite directions. Across each row, one horizontal line is removed and one vertical line is added. Down each column, one horizontal line is added and one vertical line is removed. In the third row the horizontal lines go 6, 5, then 4, and the vertical lines go 0, 1, then 2. The missing image has 4 horizontal lines and 2 vertical lines.
💡Quick Solving Tip:Count the lines of each direction separately in every image. The same change in each count along the rows or columns gives you the missing numbers.
The correct answer is:
Look at the diagonals running from the top left to the bottom right. All the images on the same diagonal have the same direction of the line and the same three shapes. The first two images on the main diagonal are horizontal lines made of a flower, a triangle and a square. The missing image completes this diagonal, so it is a horizontal line of a flower, a triangle and a square. Therefore, the correct answer is option 6.
💡Quick Solving Tip:If the rows and columns don’t show a clear pattern, compare the diagonals as well. Matching images are often placed along a diagonal.
More questions and solving strategies are available in our Raven's Matrices Adaptive PrepPack™. Sessions adjust to your level as you practice, with detailed explanations that help you grasp the underlying rule the moment a gap appears.
Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Test Questions
The RSPM test consists of easier questions than the Advanced version and is often used to evaluate entry-level job candidates. During this test, you have to answer 43 questions in 47 minutes, with questions getting harder as you progress.
Questions at the beginning of this test may have a slightly different format than the advanced matrices, as in the example below:
The missing piece should have black vertical lines that bend outwards and white horizontal lines that bend inwards.
Therefore, the correct answer is:
💡Quick Solving Tip: Since SPM aim to assess clear thinking and logical problem-solving abilities, independent of language proficiency, focus on identifying patterns and relationships between the elements in each matrix. Look for trends in shape, size, orientation, and shading.
To get the full experience of the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices Test we offer a tailored simulation identical to the RSPM timing and questions format, along with 700 matrices practice questions to improve your result.
Raven Test Preparation: What You Get in the Adaptive PrepPack™
You can absolutely prepare yourself for the Raven’s SPM and APM, and we highly recommend practicing before taking it. Many of the Raven questions appear to be difficult at first look, but there are standard rules that repeat throughout the test that you can learn to identify quickly.
Many Raven's questions look hard at first, but the same few rules repeat across the test, and you can learn to spot them quickly. The Raven's Matrices Adaptive PrepPack™ is built around that. It finds the rules you miss and keeps you on them until you get them right..
Here is what you get:
- It starts with a short simulation. You take an initial assessment that shows your current level, where your strengths are, and which areas need work. Everything that follows is built around that starting point, not a generic curriculum.
- Sessions adjust as you go. Difficulty rises as you answer correctly. The moment a knowledge gap shows up, the session switches into deep-learning mode, with detailed explanations for the rule you missed. Get a question wrong, and you retry it on the spot until you've actually closed the gap.
- You get a report after every session. It shows your progress, the difficulty level you reached, and what to focus on next. Two scores track how you're doing: a Progress Score, based on right vs. wrong answers, and a Relative Score, showing how you rank against other candidates preparing for the same test.
- You can review every answer. After a session, go back through your answers and read a detailed explanation for each one.
- Your learning plan is built around your test date. Enter it once, and the system schedules your sessions to keep you on track, whether you have a few weeks or a few days left.
- As your test date approaches, sessions shift to full-length simulations in a realistic, timed, test-like environment, with explanations that get more specific to what you're facing.
- A learning hub rounds it out with guides, video tutorials, and reading material covering both the SPM and APM formats and the logic behind them.
Free Raven's Practice vs the Adaptive PrepPack™
The free test shows you what Raven's questions look like. The PrepPack is for the preparation that comes after that. Here is how they compare:
| Free practice test | Raven's Matrices Adaptive PrepPack™ | |
| Practice questions | A free interactive test and worked sample questions | Over 700 questions across the Standard and Advanced tests, in repeatable sessions |
| Personalization | Fixed set of questions | Difficulty adjusts as you answer, with deep-learning mode when a gap appears |
| Explanations | A worked answer for each sample question | Detailed explanations for every answer, and a retry on the spot |
| Full-length simulations | Not included | Realistic, timed simulations as your test date approaches |
| Reports | Not included | A report after every session with your progress, difficulty level reached and next objectives |
| Scores | Not included | Progress Score and Relative Score, which ranks you against other candidates |
| Study plan | Not included | Built around your test date |
| Learning hub | Not included | Guides, video tutorials and reading material |
| Price | Free | One-time payment |
What Is the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test Used For?
The PrepPack is ideal for candidates who have been invited to take a Raven's test as part of a job application. Employers most often give the Advanced (APM) version for roles such as:
- Management, senior, and executive positions (VP, Director, CEO, etc.)
- Technical roles (such as maintenance mechanic)
- Airline Pilot
- Financial Analyst
Since the APM also indicates employees' potential, it is often used to select applicants for graduate positions as well. For other entry-level positions, the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices Test might be used.
If you are applying for a pilot position or any senior position that requires good leadership skills, you are likely to receive the Raven Test along with the Hogan Assessment- a series of mainly behavioral questionnaires.
Which Employers Use the Raven Progressive Matrices Test?
Some of the main companies and organizations that use the Raven Progressive Matrices Test are Walmart, Amazon, Vestas, Anglo-American, and recruitment agencies for government roles.
Raven Matrices Test Prep FAQ
The Raven’s Matrices Adaptive PrepPack™ includes over 700 practice questions across the Standard and Advanced tests, adaptive learning sessions, full-length timed simulations, a report after every session, a study plan built around your test date, and a learning hub with guides, video tutorials and reading material.
You start with a short simulation that shows your level, strengths and weak spots. Sessions then raise the difficulty as you answer correctly. When you miss a rule, the session switches to deep-learning mode with detailed explanations, and you retry the question on the spot. A report after each session shows your progress and what to focus on next.
Yes. The PrepPack covers the Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) and the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM, also called RSPM). It does not cover the Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM), which is used mainly with children and older adults. Check your test invitation to confirm which version your employer uses.
The free test and sample questions show you the format, with a worked answer for each question. The PrepPack goes further: over 700 questions in repeatable sessions, sessions that adapt to your answers, full-length simulations and reports with scores. Start with the free practice test, then use the PrepPack when you want structured preparation.
The Progress Score is based on your right and wrong answers. The Relative Score shows, as a percentile, how you rank against other candidates preparing for the same test. Both appear in the report you get after every session, next to the difficulty level you reached and your objectives for the next session.
Enter your test date once and the system schedules your sessions around it, whether you have a few weeks or a few days left. As the date gets closer, sessions shift to full-length, timed simulations with explanations specific to what you will face on the day.
You pay once for the access period you choose in the purchase box at the top of the page. The PrepPack is backed by a money-back guarantee, and the full conditions are in our Terms and Conditions.
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