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Wonderlic cognitive ability test: 50 questions in 12 minutes

Many US employers use the Wonderlic cognitive ability test. Wonderlic's own pages describe it as 50 questions in 12 minutes, with no expectation that you will finish them all. It mixes simple maths, basic logic, language, spatial reasoning and pattern questions, and the questions get harder as it goes. Pace matters as much as knowing the question types.

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The test at a glance, from Wonderlic

Questions	50, in a 12-minute timed section
Finishing	Test takers are not expected to complete all 50 in the time
Question types	Simple maths, basic logic, language comprehension, spatial reasoning, pattern identification and more, getting harder as the test goes on
Calculator	Not used. Wonderlic says a calculator will not significantly improve your results and might make you spend too long on single questions
Scoring	Wonderlic says an algorithm weights each question by its difficulty and the effect of guessing, so the score is not just the number right
The rest of the assessment	Wonderlic Select can also include motivation and personality sections, which have no right or wrong answers. This page is about the timed cognitive section

From Wonderlic's own pages (sources below). Which sections you get, and what the employer asks, varies by job and employer.

What to practise, and where

Simple maths: word problems, percentages and ratios and number series.
Language: vocabulary and sentence completion.
Basic logic: syllogisms.
Spatial reasoning and patterns: mental rotation, visual series and matrices.

Every practice question here is generated and checked to have exactly one right answer. None is copied from Wonderlic. preplaud's mixed mock tests are 50 questions in 15 minutes, or 20 in 6, so the length is not the same as Wonderlic's 12 minutes; they are for pacing practice across mixed question types, in the same spirit. The CCAT page covers another test of the same short, mixed kind, and so does the Predictive Index page.

How to prepare

Learn each question type once, properly, in untimed practice. The guides explain each.
Practise against the clock. 50 questions in 12 minutes is about 14 seconds each, so most people will not finish.
Do not get stuck. A question that is eating your time costs you several easy ones later. Make a call and move on.
Leave the calculator out of your plan. Wonderlic does not expect one to help.

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Practice here is free up to level 3, with 15 new questions a day on a free account and no account needed to try. Levels 4 to 6 and the full 50-question mock come with paid access.

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Sources

Wonderlic: Cognitive ability test (50 questions, 12 minutes, topics, scoring algorithm)
Wonderlic: Select test, frequently asked questions from candidates (not expected to finish, calculator, motivation and personality sections)

preplaud is independent. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wonderlic, or by any employer that uses its tests, and its questions are its own, not copied from any Wonderlic test. Wonderlic is a trademark of its owner, used here only to describe what the practice is for. preplaud gives no pass marks, norms or score predictions.