Creative Problem Solving Tests

Because of recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, most future jobs will automatise routine tasks. This leaves in the hands of the human workers more and more the parts of work that require creative problem solving. Employers thus need today and will increasingly need in the future employees that are better at creative problem solving.

From the employee perspective - we are generally much more engaged and feel we express much more of whom we are when we do work that requires our creativity and problem solving abilities. Job applicants thus benefit from applying to jobs where their creative problem solving can be measured and taken into account, not just their experience and skills. If you are great at creative problem solving, and can show this, using our platform, your chances of landing the jobs you want increase even when you don’t have the perfect background for it. Our tests don’t care about your gender, skin colour, social class or sexual orientation - they are not biased and can help showcase your creative problem solving abilities.

What is so special about creaIntel? More than just a test company, creaIntel is based on deep Artificial Intelligence and psychology research. Our AI can create and rate these tests, and we have deep data on how hard or easy the various stimuli are for humans.

Creative Problem Solving Tests

The Remote Associates Test

The remote associates test measures a special factor of creativity: the ability to make associations. When your brain can make associations fast, and you encounter a problem, you are better at bringing lots of pieces of information to that problem when you are attempting to solve it. A good ability to do remote associations means you can find such pieces of information which fit multiple elements of the problem. This gives your more chances to comes up with a valuable solution.

The Visual Remote
Associates Test

The visual remote associates test measures the ability to make associations and be creative, with a special twist: you are tested in the visual domain. The remote associates test (see above) is normally a verbal test, however this might not measure the visual ability to make associations that some people have, even when they are not as good at verbalising or at a specific language.

We are the ones to have invented and created the visual version of this test, specifically to help people whom are not tested in their mother tongue or are better at processing visual information. We developed this test in our research, we have validated it with hundreds of participants and published papers about it in peer-reviewed journals. The test has gathered a lot of interest in the scientific community, and we have shared freely a number of the stimuli we initially created with over 30 other scientific research labs situated in universities worldwide.

The Alternative Uses Test

The Alternative uses test is a creativity test. The participant is asked to come up with uses for a given object - for example “Tell me all the different ways you could use a cup”. A participant may answer things like: “I can use a cup to drink from, to water flowers, to put small objects in. I can also use a cup to cook in, or as a pot for a plant. I could break the cup and use the pieces to make a mosaic. I could also use the unbroken cup to measure liquid, or flour.” The more uses the participant gives, the higher the score they get. The more original these uses are, the higher the score, as long as the uses are still practical (they can achieve a purpose).

Raven Matrices

Want to have fun while testing your intelligence? Try this test! The Raven Matrices is a non-verbal psychometric test that measures your abstract reasoning abilities. The test will present a grid of shapes to you, with a blank for a shape missing, and a few options to choose from to fill in the missing one.

You will aim to determine the pattern at play and choose a shape that you can link to this pattern. Raven Matrices test both your intelligence and logical reasoning. Employers use this test because it helps them determine how good the employees are at noticing and constructing patterns. Curious to test and improve your pattern recognition skills?

Deductive Reasoning Test

Ever wondered how good you are at deductive reasoning? Are you always on the lookout for interesting toy problems to solve and measure yourself against? The Deductive Reasoning psychometric test will present you with such a set of problems. In each problem you will be given information.

You will have to apply logic and deduce a possible outcome from the information you are presented with. Engineers, IT personnel and managers need to apply logic to solve various operational problems regularly. That is why employers choose deductive reasoning tests to find employees who have high logical skills to fit into these roles. Deductive reasoning tests might seem tricky at the beginning. But with continuous practice, you can improve your score and increase your chances of getting hired.