How the MAP personality test works
You see one statement at a time and rate how well it applies to you. Assessio does not publish the response scale.
Your answers are scored on the five factors of the Five Factor Model, split into 25 facets, and reported as C-scores. Assessio treats each C-score as accurate to about one point either way.
Employers set your profile against a requirements profile for the role. Assessio stresses that there is no such thing as the right personality.
How to answer the MAP statements
There is nothing to solve, so the aim is to answer consistently:
- Think of how you behave at work most of the time, not on your best day.
- Answer each statement on its own instead of keeping a running tally of how you are coming across.
- Use the whole scale. If a statement is only partly true of you, say so rather than forcing it to one end.
- Do not agonise over single statements. Each facet is built from many answers, not one.
Tips for the real MAP test
- Answer honestly. Assessio says there is no advantage in being dishonest.
- Do not aim for the top of every scale. Assessio can also produce MAP-X from the same answers, which treats extreme scores at either end as a possible risk at work.
- Set aside 40 minutes somewhere quiet so you are not rushing the later statements.
Practise MAP on CogniPrep
Our MAP game shows 100 statements from a bank of 150, four for each of the 25 facets, rated on a five-point scale. It is untimed, you can go back and change an answer, and it ends with a profile across the five factors rather than a score. The real MAP has 200 statements, and the five-point scale is our assumption because Assessio does not publish its own.