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Can You Cheat the Alva Labs Logic Test?

Alva locks a result to you for two years and sells employers a supervised re-check of it, so an inflated score is a debt that comes due.

Short answer: no.

Any employer can send Alva’s validation test, 20 new tasks under the same two-minute rule, usually on site, and receives the two results side by side with cheating first on Alva’s list of reasons for a gap. Your first result is also reused for 24 months, and you cannot retake it for that company yourself.

Alva’s own list of reasons a validation test might come out lower than the first sitting starts with “Getting help from somebody else (cheating)”. The employer sees both scores side by side. You never see the second one.

A result that follows you

Most shortcuts are a gamble on one application. Alva changes the stakes because its results are not tied to an application at all: they are tied to your email address and reused for 24 months. Share a result with a company once and it is sent to that company again, automatically, every time you apply there in that window. You cannot retake the test for that company on your own initiative; only the company can allow it.

So a borrowed score is not a risk you take once. It is the score you carry into every application to that employer for two years, and every one of those is another chance for it to be checked.

The re-check is a product

Alva sells employers a validation test: a supervised second sitting, usually on site, of 20 new tasks under the same two-minute rule. The employer gets both results side by side and Alva’s guidance on how to read a gap, with help from somebody else first on its list of causes. Alva’s own retest data says genuine scores rarely move by more than a point between sittings, so an inflated first result is a gap waiting to be measured.

Validation test
Twenty new tasks, supervised
The employer can send it late in the process, usually on site, and compares the two scores side by side. You do not see the second result.
Lock-in
Your result lasts 24 months
Tied to one email and re-sent automatically to a company you have already shared with. Only the company can allow a retake.
Proctoring
Tab switches are logged
Other tabs, other applications and screenshots are recorded, you are warned on screen, and the employer sees which tasks were affected.
Adaptive
No two sittings match
After three warm-up tasks each task is drawn at random from the ten that best fit your current level, so there is no fixed paper to find answers for.

The one route Alva endorses

Alva is unusually direct about preparation: its fair play policy lists practising on similar tests beforehand as something that does not break its rules. The logic test rewards exactly what practice builds, because it does not score speed at all. Two minutes a task is a limit, not a pace, and most people finish all 20 in 15 to 20 minutes.

Do
Practise full 20-task runs so the format, the rules and the two-minute clock are familiar.
Submit a best guess at the 30 second notice. An unanswered task is marked exactly like a wrong one.
Sit the test somewhere quiet with a stable connection, and stay in the test window.
Answer the personality test for how you actually behave at work, reading each statement to the end.
Treat the first result as the one you will live with for two years at that employer.
Do not
Do not open another tab or an AI tool. It is logged, and the clock keeps running.
Do not let someone else sit it for you. The validation test exists for exactly that gap.
Do not plan on a quick retake. Only the employer can allow one.
Do not agree with every personality statement. About a third are worded the other way round.

What actually moves an Alva result

Naming rules quickly and precisely. Alva’s tasks read along rows and down columns, never diagonally, and rows and columns can follow different rules. The wrong options are built from the grid’s own pieces, so a candidate who predicts the missing square before looking at the options beats one who hunts for a familiar shape.

Then discipline with the clock. Harder tasks count for more, so the test rewards getting a run of tasks right at your level rather than one lucky hard one, and a task left to time out is a certain miss where a guess among six is not.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Alva validation test?

An optional second sitting of the logic test that the employer can send, usually late in the process and often on site: 20 new tasks under the same two-minute rule. The employer receives a side-by-side comparison of the two results with guidance on how to read any difference. The candidate does not see the validation score.

Can I just retake the logic test if it went badly?

Not by yourself. Results under 24 months old on the same email can be shared with a new employer, and once you have shared with a company your results go to it again automatically. Alva says you cannot choose to retake the tests for that company yourself; only the company can allow it.

Is the Alva logic test monitored?

Yes. Browser proctoring is on by default and records tab or window changes, other applications and screenshots. You are warned on screen, repeated violations flag the result, and the employer sees which tasks were affected. Nothing is installed on your computer.

Can I use an AI tool on the matrix tasks?

Switching to one is precisely what the proctoring records, and each task has its own two-minute clock, so the time spent is taken from the task you are on. Alva also says it is changing its task design so the test measures true cognitive ability rather than patterns an AI can detect.

Can I answer the personality test the way I think they want?

You can, and it tends to backfire. About a third of statements are worded the opposite way round, the test asks more questions when your answers are inconsistent, and the employer uses the report to plan interview questions. A profile you do not recognise is a hard one to talk about.

Is practising allowed?

Yes, explicitly. Alva’s fair play policy lists practising on similar tests beforehand as behaviour that does not break its rules. Preparing properly is the route Alva itself sanctions.

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The Stockholm publisher of the Alva Logic Test (logiktest, logikktest), an adaptive matrix test of 20 tasks with two minutes each, and the Alva Personality Test (personlighetstest), an adaptive five-factor questionnaire of about 120 statements. Both report on a 1 to 10 scale with no norm group. Invitations come from invitation@alvalabs.io to app.alvalabs.io, and the tests are now sold as Alva Psychometrics, Agentic Psychometrics and the Agentic Hiring System. Mainly Sweden, Norway and the rest of the Nordics.

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