Matrigma is a non-verbal reasoning test published by Assessio and used by employers, mostly in the Nordics and Europe, to screen candidates before an interview. Every question is a 3x3 grid of figures with the last cell missing. You work out the rule that ties the rows and columns together and pick the figure that completes it. There are no words, no numbers to calculate and no knowledge to recall, which is exactly why employers like it: it measures how quickly you find structure in something you have never seen.
Two versions
The classic Matrigma is 30 scored questions in 40 minutes with 6 answer options each, on one clock for the whole form. The Adaptive Matrigma runs for up to 12 minutes, with a limit of 60seconds per question, and picks each next question from how you answered the last. Which one you get is the employer’s choice; the invitation usually says.
What it measures
Pattern recognition under time pressure. Almost every question turns on one of ten things the eye can see change: the figure turns, flips, moves, grows, changes colour, changes shape, changes in number, two cells combine into a third, every value appears once per row, or two of those at once. Name the pattern and the answer is most of the way found. That is the whole idea behind this course, and it is what the next module teaches.
This is independent practice material. It is not an official Matrigma product and uses none of Assessio’s questions. The format figures above come from the site’s verification programme, which records each source and the date it was read.