Your invitation usually names the publisher, sometimes only in the small print or in the link itself. The names below are the ones a hiring candidate meets most often. Every one of them, where it uses a matrix at all, puts a 3x3 grid with one cell missing in front of you, and the ten patterns this course teaches are the ten the grid can turn on. What differs is the clock, the number of options and the length, which is what the table shows.
| Test | Length | Clock | Options | Practice here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHL Verify Interactive Inductive Reasoning | up to 15 questions | 18 minutes for the whole test | not published | SHL-style practice |
| Korn Ferry Elements Logical (Talent Q) | 12 questions | 75 seconds per question | not published | Korn Ferry-style practice |
| Aon scales ix (formerly cut-e) | 20 questions | 5 minutes for the whole test | 9 | Aon cut-e-style practice |
| Matrigma (Assessio) | 30 questions | 40 minutes for the whole test | 6 | Matrigma-style practice |
| McKinsey Solve | not a fixed form | varies by game | not published | McKinsey Solve preparation |
If your test has its own course
Two families are different enough to earn their own course, and if your invitation names one of them you should take that course instead of, or as well as, this one.
- Matrigma (Assessio), common in the Nordics, with a classic and an adaptive form and six options. The Matrigma Prep Course teaches the same ten patterns with an introduction and a playbook written for that test.
- Raven’s Progressive Matrices (Pearson), untimed, in sets that get harder, with the missing piece cut out of a larger pattern rather than a 3x3 grid. Three courses, one per form: Coloured, Standard and Advanced.
If it names none of these
Then you are in the right place. An unnamed “abstract reasoning”, “inductive reasoning”, “non-verbal reasoning” or “logical reasoning” test from an employer is, far more often than not, a 3x3 matrix test with a whole-form clock, and the classic timed test in this course is the closest rehearsal for it.
This is independent practice material and uses none of the publishers’ questions. Every figure in the table comes from the site’s verification programme, which records the source and the date it was read; a publisher that publishes no number is shown as not published, never guessed.