Raven's APM Prep Course
The Advanced Progressive Matrices, rule by rule: Carpenter's five, the count of rules that makes an item hard, and Set II in full.
- Lessons
- 18
- Rules
- 6
- Quizzes
- 3
- Practice tests
- 1
- Learning hours
- ~5
The Advanced Progressive Matrices is the hard Raven's: every item a 3x3 with eight options, black on white, built to spread the top fifth of the range, and the one form with a published rule analysis. This course teaches Carpenter's five rules under plain names, drills each with unseen items, works Set I as the orientation it is meant to be, checks Set II in three thirds, and runs the whole 48-item form in the real structure. The introduction, the orientation set and the first sitting are open; full access opens the rest.
The course is built around one habit: name the pattern before you look at the options. The ten pattern lessons teach it, the guided practice trains it, the quizzes and the speed round measure it, and the full practice tests rehearse it under the same clock the real test uses.
Everything free on this site stays free, including the first lesson of every module and the first sitting of every practice test. Full access is $29 once for 12 months, with a 30-day refund, and it opens every paid lesson in every course here.
Module 1
Introduction
What the Advanced Progressive Matrices is, how a sitting runs, and which Raven's a hiring candidate actually meets.
- What the APM is6 minFree
- How an APM sitting runs6 minFree
- The Raven's you will actually meet5 minFree
- Three sample items5 minFree
Module 2
The five rules
The one Raven's form with a published rule analysis. Learn the five, then drill each under the course's own name.
- Carpenter's five rules8 minFree
- Set I: the orientation set20 minFree
- Steps up or down20 minFull access
- Once per row20 minFull access
- Transformed once per row20 minFull access
- Adding and taking away20 minFull access
- Two rules at once20 minFull access
Module 3
Set II checks
Set II in three twelve-item thirds, rising in difficulty, with the explanations held to the end.
- Set II check, first third12 minFull access
- Set II check, second third12 minFull access
- Set II check, final third12 minFull access
Module 4
Full practice test
Set I then Set II, forty-eight items, eight options throughout. Untimed; your first sitting is free.
- The 48-item APM-style test60 minFirst sitting free
Module 5
Test-day playbook
The practical part for the APM: the screen and the test, the historical clock on Set II, and Korn Ferry's use of it.
- APM test-day playbook7 minFree
Module 6
Your results
Every APM sitting this account has claimed, Set I and Set II apart.
- Your APM results5 minSign in
Module 7
Common traps
The option that satisfies one rule and breaks another, and why it is there.
- APM common traps12 minFull access
- Is this an official Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices course?
- No. It is independent practice material. It uses none of the publisher's questions, and it says so on every practice test.
- What is free?
- Enrolling, the whole introduction, the first pattern lesson with its drill and quiz, the first three questions of every other drill, the test-day playbook, and the first sitting of every practice test.
- What does full access add?
- Every paid lesson in every course on this site, the drills past their preview, the quizzes, the speed round, the review queue and later sittings of every test. $29 once for 12 months, 30-day refund.
- Can I pause a test?
- The timed tests have a Pause button beside the clock that keeps your answers on the same device. The Raven's forms are untimed and a sitting is kept for a day, so you can close the page and come back. The real tests cannot be paused.
- Does my progress follow me?
- Lesson progress is saved to your account and follows you between devices. Paused sittings stay on the device they were started on.