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Five-Minute Reasoning Assessment
Five kinds of thinking, one profile.
A research-informed reasoning assessment designed to explore several dimensions of cognitive performance. It is educational and informational, not a clinical diagnosis.
- Questions
- 18
- Time
- ~5 minutes
- Signup
- Not required
- Report
- Optional
Free, always
- 18 questions, with no time limit
- Your overall performance band
- How many questions you answered and skipped
- Your total time
Complete report — optional, one-time
- Your overall reasoning profile
- A score for each of the five domains
- Your strongest cognitive area
- The area with the greatest room for improvement
- A speed-versus-accuracy analysis
- An explanation for every single question
- Practical, personalised observations
- A shareable result card
A single one-time payment, priced on your result page. No subscription and no renewal.
Before you start
- This assessment is educational and informational. It is not a clinical or medical diagnosis, it is not an IQ test, and it is not designed or validated for employment decisions. The questions are original to MindScore. Your score describes how you did on the 18 items you were shown, on this occasion, nothing more.
- You can skip any question, and there is no per-question timer. Decide your answer before you move on: you cannot go back.
- Each attempt draws 18 questions from a pool of 36, in a different order and with the options in a different order, so a retake is a fresh test.
Your answers save as you go, so you can close this and come back later.
Methodology, limitations and validation status
What it measures. Performance across five reasoning formats: pattern recognition, logical reasoning, numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning and spatial reasoning. It describes how you handled the 18 items you were shown on this occasion, not a general or fixed ability.
Where the items come from. All 36 items in the pool were written for MindScore, and each attempt draws 18 of them. None are drawn from a published or proprietary intelligence battery, and several are deliberately built so that the first plausible reading is wrong.
How it is scored. Each attempt draws four pattern, four logical, four numerical, three verbal and three spatial items from the pool, in a random order with options in a random order. Each item scores 0 or 1. A domain score is credit earned over credit available within that domain, expressed on a 0-100 scale. The overall score is the weighted mean of the five domain scores, and fixed thresholds map it to one of four descriptive bands.
Validation status. Not independently validated. Item difficulty and discrimination statistics have not yet been collected, and no norming sample exists.
- 18 items over roughly five minutes is a short sample; sleep, distraction and familiarity with the item formats all move the result.
- This is not an IQ test and produces no IQ-like number.
- It is not designed or validated for employment selection, academic placement or any other consequential decision.
- Bands describe performance on these items, not standing in a population.
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