Updated April 2026 · 12 min read · Australian provider · Now part of Criteria Corp
| Provider | Revelian (acquired by Criteria Corp in 2021) |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Brisbane, Australia (Criteria HQ in Los Angeles) |
| Key tests | RART (Abstract Reasoning), Cognify (game-based), Verbal Reasoning, Numerical, Mechanical, CCAT |
| Used by | Suncorp, Westpac, ANZ, Telstra, Australian Public Service, Woolworths Group, Commonwealth Bank |
| Defining feature | Cognify pioneered serious game-based cognitive testing in mainstream recruitment |
Revelian dominates Australian and New Zealand corporate recruitment. After the 2021 acquisition by Criteria Corp, Revelian's products were integrated into the Criteria platform, but the test names and structures remain. The flagship products — RART for abstract reasoning and Cognify for game-based cognitive — are well-established in APAC graduate pipelines.
The flagship abstract reasoning test. 32 items, 13 minutes — roughly 24 seconds per question. Each item presents a 3x3 matrix or sequence with one element missing, and asks which option from a set of 6 completes the pattern. The patterns combine rotation, reflection, addition/removal, and combination rules — similar in flavour to Raven's APM but faster.
RART scoring uses formula scoring (correct minus a fraction of incorrect), so blind guessing has slight negative expected value. Educated guesses (eliminating two options first) have positive expected value.
Revelian's gamified cognitive battery. Six mini-games in roughly 30 minutes, measuring different cognitive abilities:
| Mini-game | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Tally | Numerical processing speed |
| Snowflakes | Visual perception and attention |
| Tubes | Spatial reasoning and planning |
| Numbubbles | Working memory + arithmetic |
| Pancakes | Sorting under time pressure |
| Conveyor | Multi-step decision making |
Cognify is used at Suncorp, Telstra (some grad programmes), and several Australian public sector recruitments. Each game has clear rules but tight timing. Performance is summarised into cognitive trait scores: numerical processing, visual processing, working memory, decision-making speed.
32 items in 12 minutes. True / False / Cannot Say format on business passages. Standard structure but tight per-item time (~22 seconds).
20 items in 18 minutes. Tables, charts, financial data interpretation. Calculator allowed. Per-item time is more comfortable than verbal/RART.
32 items in 15 minutes. Levers, pulleys, gears, hydraulics, basic circuits. Used for engineering, defence, and trades roles in Australia.
Now bundled under Revelian's parent Criteria Corp. CCAT is one of the fastest cognitive tests in commercial use: 50 questions in 15 minutes. Mixed numerical, verbal, and logical items — no warning of which type comes next. The average score is around 24/50 (population-normed). Roles requiring "high cognitive demand" typically set a cutoff at 30+/50 (top quartile).
CCAT is heavily used by US tech companies and increasingly UK / EU employers. Crossover, Trilogy, FieldEdge, and many startup talent acquisition pipelines use CCAT as a fast first-stage filter.
Suncorp, Westpac, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, Australian Public Service, Woolworths Group, Coles, Optus. Outside Australia, Criteria's CCAT and CCAT-X are used at many US-based tech and finance firms, plus an increasing number of UK and EU companies.
Revelian reports raw scores plus percentiles. RART top-quartile cutoff (75th percentile) is around 22-24 correct out of 32. Cognify reports a "cognitive composite" score plus individual game scores. CCAT reports raw out of 50, with role-specific cutoffs (typically 24-32 depending on role demand).
| Role family | Typical CCAT cutoff |
|---|---|
| Customer service / admin | 20-24 |
| Sales / account management | 24-28 |
| Analyst / business intelligence | 28-34 |
| Software engineering | 32-38 |
| Senior leadership / strategy | 36+ |
RART speed. 24 seconds per question is tight. Memorise the seven core abstract transformation rules and practise pattern recognition until it's reflexive.
Cognify orientation. The biggest cost on Cognify is figuring out the game mechanics on game 1 of 6. Use the official practice round (Revelian provides one) to build familiarity.
CCAT pacing. 18 seconds per question average. Skip anything you can't solve in 25 seconds — there's no penalty for blanks but heavy time cost for stuck-thinking.
Since Revelian's product range spans standalone reasoning tests (RART, Verbal, Numerical, Mechanical), a full game-based battery (Cognify), and the Criteria-branded CCAT, checking your invitation email for the specific product name is the fastest way to know what to prepare for — the preparation approach differs meaningfully between them. If your invitation mentions "abstract reasoning" or shows matrix-pattern imagery, you're facing RART. If it mentions games, mini-games, or names like Tally/Snowflakes/Tubes, you're facing Cognify, and the official practice round matters more here than for any other Revelian product, since a meaningful share of the difficulty is simply figuring out each game's rules under time pressure the first time you see it. If your invitation simply says "cognitive aptitude test" with no further detail, it's most likely CCAT, particularly if the employer is a US tech company or startup — CCAT has become the default fast first-stage filter across that segment specifically because its 15-minute total length fits high-volume hiring funnels better than longer alternatives. See our dedicated CCAT guide for the full breakdown with worked examples across all three question families if that's the one you're facing.
Original and illustrative — not a real RART item:
Q. A 3x3 grid shows shapes that rotate 90° clockwise moving left to right along each row, and shrink by one size level moving top to bottom down each column. The bottom-right cell is missing. What completes the pattern?
A. Apply both rules simultaneously: take the shape from the middle-right cell (already rotated twice along its row), rotate it one further 90° clockwise for the row rule, then apply one more size reduction for the column rule. The correct answer is the smallest size variant of the fully-rotated shape — a distractor showing the right rotation at the wrong size, or the right size at the wrong rotation, is exactly what the six answer options are built to catch.
RART's difficulty comes specifically from combining two or more transformation rules simultaneously within a single item — spotting one rule quickly is rarely the bottleneck, but reliably tracking two rules operating in different directions (across a row, down a column) under a 24-second budget is what separates strong from average RART performance.
Numerical reasoning on Revelian tests is almost always table-based: two or three small tables of financial, sales, or operational data, followed by a question that requires a multi-step calculation and a unit conversion.
Q. A retail chain sells three product lines. Units sold last quarter were 660 (Line A), 1,140 (Line B) and 310 (Line C). Average selling price was £1.00, £1.00 and £1.00 respectively. Total revenue to the nearest £ was:
A) £1,780 B) £1,950 C) £2,048 D) £2,110
A. Sum the units: 660 + 1,140 + 310 = 2,110. Answer: D.
The actual Revelian question adds distractors: prices in pence rather than pounds, mixed currencies, unit ambiguity (per pack vs per item). Candidates who rush the unit check pick C or B despite nailing the arithmetic.
Standard Revelian numerical assessments give 18 questions in 18 minutes — about 60 seconds per question. That sounds generous but each question has 3–5 numbers to read, a calculation (often multi-step), and a unit conversion.
If you're past 75 seconds and still unsure, flag and move on — you can't recover four lost minutes from one stubborn question.
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