What Is a Good CCAT Score? The Published Numbers, and Why There Is No Passing Grade

Answer: B. Well above the published average of 24 correct

🐱 Criteria Corp states the average test taker gets 24 correct out of 50. A raw score of 38 is far above that. The first option contains the belief that causes most of the panic on this topic — that finishing is normal — and the vendor contradicts it directly: fewer than 1% of candidates answer all 50. What 38 converts to in percentile terms depends on the comparison group the employer uses, and that is the part no forum post can tell you; but relative to the published average, 38 is a strong raw score.

Answer: A. It is normal — fewer than 1% of candidates finish, and unanswered questions carry no penalty

🐱 Two published facts settle this: fewer than 1% finish, and there is no penalty for wrong answers. Not finishing is the normal outcome, not a red flag. The practical consequence is worth acting on though — since wrong answers cost nothing, blank answers are strictly worse than guesses. If you can see the clock running out, filling in the remaining questions at random has positive expected value, and leaving them blank has none.

Answer: A. As one data point about one company at one time — not a general CCAT passing score

🐱 Employers set their own benchmarks, typically by role, so a number reported for one company tells you about that company — possibly about that role, in that hiring round. It is genuinely useful information if it matches your situation, which is why the last option overcorrects. What it cannot do is generalize: treating a company-specific figure as "the CCAT passing score" is exactly the mistake that makes forum threads on this topic contradict each other.

Answer: B. "What does this employer weigh the CCAT against — is it a screen, a tiebreaker, or one input among several?"

🐱 How the score is used changes what a given number means far more than the number itself. Criteria Corp's own guidance to candidates ends on this point: your CCAT score is one of many factors an employer considers. A company using it as a hard screen and a company using it as a tiebreaker between finalists will treat the same 30 completely differently. Retake policy is worth knowing too, but it is set per employer and is a question for the recruiter, not something a general guide can answer.

Answer: A. Fill in every remaining question before time expires, guessing where necessary

🐱 Your score is the count of correct answers — there is no accuracy percentage being computed, so blanks protect nothing while guesses have positive expected value. Checking earlier answers is the subtler trap: at 18 seconds per question, verifying one costs roughly the time of attempting two new ones, and on a test almost nobody finishes, attempts are the scarce resource. The vendor's own advice matches: if a question is giving you trouble, guess and move on.

Answer: A. Recognize your weak type on sight and spend your seconds where you convert best

🐱 Every question contributes equally to the raw score, so seconds spent on your weakest type buy fewer points than the same seconds spent on your strongest — Criteria Corp's own tip is to play to your strengths. That does not mean skipping: since blanks and wrong answers score identically, weak-type questions should still get a fast guess rather than nothing. The habit worth building before test day is recognizing the type in the first second, which is exactly what practice does for you.