Raven's SPM Prep Course
The Standard Progressive Matrices, set by set: five sets, three layouts, and the two families every item belongs to.
- Lessons
- 19
- Sets
- 5
- Quizzes
- 5
- Practice tests
- 1
- Learning hours
- ~4
The Standard Progressive Matrices is the Raven's test everyone pictures: sixty items in five sets that rise in difficulty, from a textured field with a piece missing to 3x3 grids with eight options, untimed. This course starts with the one distinction that sorts every item, transformation or logic, then teaches the five sets in order, drills each with unseen items, checks each at the real set's length, and runs the whole 60-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 Standard Progressive Matrices is, how a sitting runs, and which Raven's a hiring candidate actually meets.
- What the SPM is6 minFree
- How an SPM sitting runs6 minFree
- The Raven's you will actually meet5 minFree
- Three sample items5 minFree
Module 2
The two families
Every SPM item is either a transformation or a piece of logic, never both. Learn to tell them apart first.
- Transformations and logic7 minFree
Module 3
The five sets
One lesson per set, A to E, in the order the booklet runs them and the order the difficulty rises.
- Set A: continuous patterns20 minFree
- Set B: pair analogies20 minFull access
- Set C: progressive alteration20 minFull access
- Set D: permutations20 minFull access
- Set E: constituent logic20 minFull access
Module 4
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 B check12 minFull access
- Set C check12 minFull access
- Set D check12 minFull access
- Set E check12 minFull access
Module 5
Full practice test
The whole 60-item form: five sets, three layouts, six then eight options. Untimed; your first sitting is free.
- The 60-item SPM-style test45 minFirst sitting free
Module 6
Test-day playbook
The practical part for the SPM: pacing an untimed form, the Plus edition, and what a percentile means.
- SPM test-day playbook7 minFree
Module 7
Your results
Every SPM sitting this account has claimed, set by set.
- Your SPM results5 minSign in
Module 8
Common traps
The wrong piece that looks right, set by set, and why.
- SPM common traps12 minFull access
- Is this an official Raven's Standard 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.