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CCAT score percentile calculator

Your CCAT score percentile is the share of Criteria's norm group you outscored. On Criteria's published norm a raw 24 out of 50 is about the 50th percentile, a 31 about the 79th, a 35 about the 90th and a 40 about the 97th. Type your score to see yours and how it compares with people practicing for the CCAT.

By the CCATTests Research and Editorial Team

Updated 7 October 2026 · Practice data 8 June 2025 to 6 October 2026

Your raw CCAT score

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Type it, or drag the slider. A raw score is the number of questions you got right.

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Criteria sends employers two numbers: your raw score and your percentile against its norm group. The percentile here is our estimate from Criteria's published mean and spread, so a real report can differ by a point or two.

Real CCAT, Criteria norm

49th

percentile, approximately · Around average

Practice takers here

10%

of attempts on new papers scored lower

Compare with practice takers

Every first try at a paper. Retakes of a paper already seen are left out, because they test memory.

Top: Criteria's norm curve (mean 24.2, SD 8.58), shaded up to your score. Bottom: how practice scores on our papers spread. The green 24 is Criteria's average.

Practice attempts scoring 20 to 24 answered 35 of 50 questions on average, got 64% of those right, and 91% ran out of time. At this level, reaching more questions is the quickest way up.

Inside Criteria's suggested range for 22 of 22 positions on its sample score report.

out of 50 is Criteria's average, about the 50th percentile

79th

percentile for a 31, the score many employers mention

30.3

average on a first full-length practice paper here

17 to 22

where Criteria's suggested ranges by position start

Percentile chart

CCAT raw score to percentile, 0 to 50

This CCAT percentile chart converts every raw score from 0 to 50 into a percentile. The second column is the percentile employers see, estimated from Criteria's norm. The last two columns are the share of full-length practice attempts on CCAT Tests that scored lower than each score.

“A percentile ranking of 45 means [that] an individual scored better than 45% of the group on which the test was normed.”

Criteria Corp, CCAT test overview

The two disagree, and that is the point. A 24 sits at the middle of Criteria's working adults but beats only 16% of first practice attempts here, because people preparing for the CCAT score higher than the general working population.

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Raw score	Real CCAT percentile (est.)	Practice, new papers	Practice, first attempts
0	1st	<1%	<1%
1	1st	<1%	<1%
2	1st	<1%	<1%
3	1st	<1%	<1%
4	1st	<1%	<1%
5	1st	<1%	<1%
6	2nd	<1%	<1%
7	2nd	<1%	<1%
8	3rd	<1%	<1%
9	4th	<1%	<1%
10	5th	<1%	<1%
11	6th	<1%	<1%
12	8th	<1%	<1%
13	10th	<1%	<1%
14	12th	<1%	<1%
15	14th	1%	2%
16	17th	1%	2%
17	20th	2%	5%
18	23rd	2%	5%
19	27th	3%	6%
20	31st	4%	7%
21	35th	6%	10%
22	40th	7%	12%
23	44th	9%	14%
24	49th	10%	16%
25	54th	13%	19%

Raw score	Real CCAT percentile (est.)	Practice, new papers	Practice, first attempts
26	58th	15%	23%
27	63rd	18%	27%
28	67th	23%	36%
29	71st	26%	40%
30	75th	29%	43%
31	79th	33%	50%
32	82nd	39%	60%
33	85th	44%	66%
34	87th	49%	72%
35	90th	54%	76%
36	92nd	57%	78%
37	93rd	62%	82%
38	95th	66%	84%
39	96th	70%	87%
40	97th	75%	90%
41	97th	78%	91%
42	98th	82%	93%
43	99th	85%	93%
44	99th	88%	95%
45	99th	92%	96%
46	99th	94%	96%
47	99th	98%	98%
48	99th	99%	>99%
49	99th	>99%	>99%
50	99th	>99%	>99%

Real CCAT percentile: our estimate from Criteria's published mean (24.2) and standard deviation (8.58). Practice columns: share of attempts scoring lower, 8 June 2025 to 6 October 2026.

Scores by position

What CCAT score do employers ask for?

Criteria's sample CCAT score report lists suggested score ranges for 22 positions. Every range runs to 50 and starts between 17 and 22, which is at or below the average score of 24. The highest starting points, 22, are for Analyst, Engineering and Finance Manager.

Those are Criteria's suggestions, not rules. The employer who sends you the test sets its own range, and competitive roles often ask for more. The higher per-role cutoffs quoted on many prep sites do not appear in Criteria's published material we checked, so ask your recruiter what they use.

What it means in practice: at 22 or more you are inside every suggested range on the report, and each point above that moves you up the norm, from about the 40th percentile at 22 to the 79th at 31.

Criteria's suggested CCAT score ranges by position

Analyst
22 to 50
Engineering
22 to 50
Finance Manager
22 to 50
HR Manager
21 to 50
Nursing
21 to 50
Project Manager
21 to 50
Accounting
20 to 50
Aviation
20 to 50
Education
20 to 50
Financial Services
20 to 50
Human Resources
20 to 50
IT Manager
20 to 50
IT Support
20 to 50
Management
20 to 50
Media Production
20 to 50
Sales Manager
20 to 50
Art and Design
19 to 50
Medical Assistance
19 to 50
Plant Operator
18 to 50
Store Manager
18 to 50
Retail Sales
17 to 50
Service Technician
17 to 50

The thin line marks 24, Criteria's average.

Source: Criteria Corp sample CCAT score report, "Suggested CCAT Score Ranges by Position". Every range ends at 50.

From our practice data

What separates a 27 from a 37

Practice attempts scoring 25 to 29 answered 40 of 50 questions on average and 82% ran out of time. Attempts scoring 35 to 39 answered 48, and only 44% ran out.

Accuracy rose too, from 67% to 78% of answered questions, but the bigger difference is reach: about 8 more questions answered. Since a wrong answer costs nothing on the CCAT, every question you never reach is a point you could have guessed at.

More on pacing and the question types people miss in our CCAT practice data research.

Practice attempts by score band

Score	Answered	Right	Ran out
20 to 24	35	64%	91%
25 to 29	40	67%	82%
30 to 34	44	72%	65%
35 to 39	48	78%	44%
40 to 44	49	85%	26%
45 to 50	50	93%	5%

Answered: average questions answered out of 50. Right: share of answered questions that were right. Ran out: share of attempts that ended before question 50.

Questions

CCAT percentiles, answered

The short version: a CCAT percentile compares your raw score with Criteria's norm group, 24 is about average, and each employer picks its own cutoff. For how the test is scored end to end, see the CCAT scoring guide and the CCAT test format.

What percentile is a 24 on the CCAT?

About the 50th. In Criteria's norm sample of 985 working adults the mean score was 24.2 and the median 24, and Criteria's own sample score report shows a raw score of 24 as the 50th percentile.

What percentile is a 30, 35 or 40 on the CCAT?

Using Criteria's published mean and standard deviation, a 30 is about the 75th percentile, a 35 about the 90th and a 40 about the 97th. A 31, a score many employers mention, is about the 79th.

What is a good CCAT score?

It depends on the employer and the role. Criteria's sample score report suggests ranges by position that start between 17 and 22 out of 50, so a score of 22 or more is inside every range it lists. Employers set their own cutoffs, and competitive roles often ask for more, so ask your recruiter. Above 31 puts you ahead of about four in five people in Criteria's norm group.

How is the CCAT percentile calculated?

Criteria compares your raw score, the number of questions you got right, with the scores of its norm group. A percentile of 45 means you scored better than 45% of that group. Criteria publishes the group's mean (24.2) and standard deviation (8.58) but not the full table, so this calculator estimates the percentile from a normal curve with those two figures. Your real report can differ by a point or two.

Do most people finish the CCAT?

No. In Criteria's words, "Less than 1% of candidates answer all 50 questions" in the 15 minutes. On our full-length practice papers, 52% of attempts ran out of time before question 50.

Why is my percentile among practice takers lower than my CCAT percentile?

Because people who practice for the CCAT are a stronger group than Criteria's norm sample. On a first full-length practice paper here the average was 30.3 out of 50, against Criteria's 24.2. Our papers are written in the style of the CCAT, not official questions, so use the Criteria figure for what employers see and the practice figure to compare yourself with other people preparing.

Methodology

How the numbers are made

The real-test percentiles are a normal-curve estimate from Criteria's published mean and standard deviation, and the practice percentiles are counted directly from our own attempt data. Practice data from 8 June 2025 to 6 October 2026, 500 to 1,000 full-length attempts on new papers. We refresh it with our research page and the date at the top changes with it.

Cite this calculator

CCATTests Research and Editorial Team (2026). CCAT score percentile calculator. CCAT Tests. https://ccattests.com/ccat-score-percentile

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Sources

Real CCAT percentile: Criteria publishes its norm group (985 working adults aged 18 and older from over 50 companies) with a mean of 24.2, a median of 24 and a standard deviation of 8.58, but no full percentile table. We estimate the percentile for each raw score from a normal curve with that mean and standard deviation (the normal cumulative distribution, see the NIST handbook in the sources), rounded and kept between 1 and 99 as Criteria's reports do. It lands within a point of Criteria's sample report at 24 (50th) and of the figures in our scoring guide.
Practice percentiles: Full-length practice papers on CCAT Tests, 50 questions in 15 minutes, completed by signed-in users between 8 June 2025 and 6 October 2026: 500 to 1,000 attempts on new papers. The figure shown is the share of attempts that scored lower than you. "New papers" counts each person's first try at each paper and leaves out retakes of a paper already seen, because those test memory. "First attempts" keeps only each person's first full-length paper.
What we left out: The same rules as our research page: attempts with fewer than 5 answers, attempts clicked through at under 3 seconds a question, duplicate submissions seconds apart, attempts whose time ran more than 2 minutes past the limit, and staff and test accounts. Results of the test taken without an account are not stored, so they are not included.
Score bands: For each 5-point band of practice scores we report the average questions answered, the share of answered questions that were right and the share of attempts that ran out of time. Bands too small to be reliable, which are the lowest scores, are not shown.
Position ranges: Copied from the "Suggested CCAT Score Ranges by Position" page of Criteria's sample CCAT score report. These are Criteria's suggestions in a sample report. The employer who sends you the test sets its own range.
Privacy: Every practice figure is computed on our own server and only percentages, averages and a rough sample range leave it. No individual result, name or account appears here.
Limits: Our papers are written in the style of the CCAT and are not official CCAT questions, and the people in this data chose to practice. Percentiles among practice takers describe this site, not the real test, and they do not replace Criteria's norms.

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