What Is a Good CCAT Score? Reported Ranges by Job
A good CCAT score is one that clears the cutoff your employer set for the role. That cutoff is different from job to job and from company to company, so there is no single passing number.
What you can know is how employers set those cutoffs and what ranges Criteria Corp suggests for different job families. This page collects the reported ranges and explains how to read them.
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The short answer
The CCAT has 50 questions, and your raw score is the number you get right. Criteria reports that the average test taker gets 24 right, and its sample score report puts a raw score of 24 at the 50th percentile. So a score above 24 beats more than half of test takers.
Whether that is good enough depends on the employer. Each company decides the range it wants for each position. Criteria also tells candidates that the score is just one of many factors in a hiring decision.
Where CCAT score ranges come from
Criteria gives employers a set of suggested score ranges by position. According to Criteria's score report guide, these ranges are calculated from the results of more than 700,000 CCAT assessments. When an employer links a test to a job, the score report shows the suggested range for that job as a shaded band next to your score.
Employers do not have to use Criteria's ranges. Criteria says companies can create their own score ranges, for example from the scores of people already in the role or from their own applicant pool. That is why two employers can expect very different scores for the same job title.
Reported CCAT score ranges by job family
The table below lists the suggested raw score ranges shown in Criteria's current sample CCAT score report. These are reported ranges, not cutoffs. Each employer sets its own cutoff, and it may be higher or lower than these numbers.
| Job family | Reported suggested range (raw score out of 50) |
|---|---|
| Accounting | 20–50 |
| Analyst | 22–50 |
| Architecture and Drafting | 20–50 |
| Art and Design | 19–50 |
| Aviation | 20–50 |
| Business Operations Specialist | 20–50 |
| Counseling and Social Work | 20–50 |
| Customer Service Manager | 19–50 |
| Customer Service Representative | 17–50 |
| Data Analytics and Statistics | 24–50 |
| Education | 20–50 |
| Emergency and Protective | 19–50 |
| Engineering | 22–50 |
| Finance Manager | 22–50 |
| Financial Services | 20–50 |
| HR Manager | 21–50 |
| Human Resources | 20–50 |
| IT and Computing Systems | 21–50 |
| IT Manager | 20–50 |
| IT Support | 20–50 |
| Journalism and Communications | 20–50 |
| Legal | 24–50 |
| Management | 20–50 |
| Marketing and Product | 21–50 |
| Media Production | 20–50 |
| Medical Assistance | 19–50 |
| Medicine and Healthcare | 22–50 |
| Nursing | 21–50 |
| Office and Administrative Support | 19–50 |
| Paralegal and Legal Support | 19–50 |
| Plant Operator | 18–50 |
| Production Manager / Supervisor | 19–50 |
| Project Manager | 21–50 |
| Retail Sales | 17–50 |
| Sales / Account Executive | 19–50 |
| Sales Manager | 20–50 |
| Sales Representative | 17–50 |
| Science and Research | 22–50 |
| Senior and Executive Leadership | 22–50 |
| Service Technician | 17–50 |
| Software Development | 20–50 |
| Store Manager | 18–50 |
In this version of the report, every range runs from a minimum up to 50. The minimums fall between 17 and 24, which is at or below the median score of 24.
Older CCAT score ranges you may see on other sites
Many prep sites, including JobTestPrep and Test-Guide, publish a different table. They attribute it to an earlier Criteria sample score report. These older ranges have both a lower and an upper end, and several start higher than anything in the current report.
| Position | Older reported range (raw score out of 50) |
|---|---|
| Accounting/Finance | 24–39 |
| Administrative Assistant | 20–39 |
| Analyst | 26–42 |
| Bookkeeper | 20–35 |
| Computer Programmer | 23–40 |
| Controller | 24–39 |
| Customer Service Representative | 18–32 |
| Finance Manager | 21–40 |
| Financial Analyst | 23–38 |
| Front Desk/Reception | 18–30 |
| Lawyer/Attorney | 29–42 |
| Loan Officer | 24–38 |
| Network Administrator | 23–37 |
| Operations Manager | 22–40 |
| Product Manager | 26–41 |
| Production Manager | 18–34 |
| Project Manager | 22–37 |
| Recruiter | 21–35 |
| Sales Manager | 23–37 |
| Sales Representative | 21–35 |
| Senior Manager/VP | 29–42 |
| Store Manager | 20–37 |
The two tables use different job names and different numbers, which is a good reminder that published ranges change over time. Neither table tells you what a specific employer expects.
How to read these ranges
A range is not a cutoff
A suggested range is a reference point, not a promise. Scoring inside the range for your job family does not guarantee you move forward, because the employer may use its own range and the score is only one factor. The employer decides.
Think in percentiles
With a median of 24, a score of 24 is right in the middle of the people who have taken the test. An employer can set its own range above the suggested minimum, so do not treat the minimum as your target.
What score should you aim for?
You may not know the exact cutoff before you take the test. It is fair to ask the recruiter how the test is used in the process. If you do not get a clear answer, plan as if the bar is above the median.
In practice, that means aiming for as many correct answers as you can reach in 15 minutes. You get there by learning the question types, getting faster at the ones you know, and finding the section that drags your score down. Our guide to how the CCAT is scored explains raw scores and percentiles in more detail.
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