The week before
- Do the speed round twice, on different days. It is the only thing here that measures picking the right tactic under a clock, which is what the test measures.
- Clear your review queue. A question you missed once and never revisited is the one you will miss again.
- Sit one full timed test three days out, and none the night before. Meeting a new pattern the evening before costs sleep and buys nothing.
The day
- A desktop or laptop with a mouse, a quiet room, and the invitation link open before you start. Phones make the grid small and the options smaller.
- Know which version you are sitting. Classic is 30 questions in 40 minutes on one clock; adaptive is up to 12 minutes at 60 seconds a question.
- Use the warm-up examples to settle, not to judge the difficulty.
During
- Rule first, options second. Say what changes across row one, check it on row two, then look for the finish of row three. Looking at the options first is how a distractor gets you.
- On the classic form, spend a little longer early: the easy questions are where a careless miss costs the most. Leave the hardest to last and come back if there is time.
- On the adaptive form, a wrong answer is expected; the test is looking for the level where you start to miss. Do not let one hard question shake the next easy one.
- Guess rather than leave a blank. There is no penalty for a wrong answer on either form, and an eliminated option or two makes a guess worth having.
What a score means
- Employers read Matrigma on a scale, not as a percentage, and set their own bar per role. There is no published pass mark.
- What you can control is the pattern you recognise fastest. The readiness report in this course shows which ones you still lose marks to.
Format figures come from the site’s verification programme. The advice on guessing rests on the absence of any published negative marking for Matrigma; if your invitation says otherwise, the invitation wins.