Raven's CPM Prep Course
The Coloured Progressive Matrices, set by set: learn what each set asks, drill it, then sit the whole form.
- Lessons
- 14
- Sets
- 3
- Quizzes
- 3
- Practice tests
- 1
- Learning hours
- ~3
The Coloured Progressive Matrices is the colour form of Raven's test: three sets of twelve, six options, no clock, built for children and older adults. This course teaches the three sets in the order the booklet runs them, drills each with unseen items and the rule after every answer, checks each at the real set's length, and then runs the whole 36-item form in the real structure. The introduction, the first 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 Coloured Progressive Matrices is, how a sitting runs, and which Raven's a hiring candidate actually meets.
- What the CPM is6 minFree
- How a CPM sitting runs6 minFree
- The Raven's you will actually meet5 minFree
- Three sample items5 minFree
Module 2
The three sets
One lesson per set, in the order the booklet runs them: read what the set asks, then drill it.
- Set A: completing the pattern20 minFree
- Set Ab: the related figure20 minFull access
- Set B: analogies20 minFull access
Module 3
Set checks
Twelve items per set, the length of the real set, with the explanations held to the end.
- Set A check12 minFull access
- Set Ab check12 minFull access
- Set B check12 minFull access
Module 4
Full practice test
The whole 36-item form in the real structure. Untimed, like the real one; your first sitting is free.
- The 36-item CPM-style test30 minFirst sitting free
Module 5
Test-day playbook
The practical part for the CPM: who sits it, how, and what a score means.
- CPM test-day playbook6 minFree
Module 6
Your results
Every CPM sitting this account has claimed, set by set.
- Your CPM results5 minSign in
Module 7
Common traps
The wrong piece that looks right, set by set, and why.
- CPM common traps10 minFull access
- Is this an official Raven's Coloured 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.