Revelian Cognify Tips: Six Mini-Games and What Each One Rewards
Cognify replaces a traditional aptitude test with six short games. What each one measures, the tactic that helps most in each, and how Cognify differs from the CCAT.
Revelian Cognify replaces the traditional aptitude test with a set of short games covering problem-solving, numerical reasoning and verbal knowledge. It is widely used in Australia and increasingly in the UK and US. The games look casual, which is the main reason candidates underperform on them: they start clicking before they have understood what is being scored.
The six games and what each rewards
The habit that costs the most
Three of the six games are planning games, and all three let you start acting immediately. Short Cuts, Grid Lock and Resemble all reward a solution reached in few moves, and all three make it easy to begin experimenting instead. The few seconds spent working out the whole answer before touching anything are the highest-return seconds in the assessment.
The two numerical games work the opposite way. Numbubbles and Tally Up are speed games with hidden timers, and deliberating there is what loses points. Knowing in advance which games want patience and which want pace is most of the benefit of practising.
There is no pass mark
Cognify produces a cognitive profile that employers compare against the demands of the role and against other candidates. There is no single threshold, and the games do not have a maximum you are expected to reach. What practice does is stop you spending your first rounds learning what the interface does, since those rounds count exactly as much as the later ones.
Set-up matters more than usual
Cognify is drag-and-drop and partly timed, so use a mouse rather than a trackpad. Sit it in one uninterrupted block, since the games are short and the timed ones are unforgiving of a broken run of attention. Read each instruction screen fully; several games change what they ask for between rounds and the instruction screen is where that is announced.
If your invitation named the CCAT instead
Criteria Corp owns Revelian, but Cognify and the CCAT are different products with different formats and different tactics. If the email says Cognify or Emotify, this is the right page and these are the games to practise. If it says CCAT, you are sitting a 50-question paper in 15 minutes and should prepare for that instead.