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Psychology tests that show their working.

Every assessment here uses a published instrument with a documented scoring key, and every page names the source so you can check it.

436 questions across 15 assessments|0 accounts required. Scoring runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere

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Personality

Conscientiousness Test

Twenty-four questions on the conscientiousness scale, broken into the six things it is actually made of.

24 questions · about 5 min

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Personality

Agreeableness Test

Twenty-four questions on the agreeableness scale, broken into the six things it is actually made of.

24 questions · about 5 min

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Personality

Neuroticism Test

Twenty-four questions on the neuroticism scale, broken into the six things it is actually made of.

24 questions · about 5 min

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Personality

Dark Triad Test (SD3)

Twenty-seven items measuring Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy as normal-range traits.

27 questions · about 7 min

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Wellbeing

GAD-7 Anxiety Test

Seven questions about the last two weeks. The standard screening measure for generalised anxiety.

7 questions · about 2 min

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How to read any result here

A score is a position within its own scale, not a percentile against a population. Turning one into the other needs a normed sample of people like you, measured with the same instrument, and we do not have one. You will never see a claim that you are in the top ten percent of anything, because that claim would be invented.

Self-report measures self-description. That is genuinely useful and it is not the same as behaviour. What you get is an accurate picture of how you currently see yourself, which moves with mood, recent events and how you would like to come across.

Small differences are noise. Short scales move by a few points between sittings, so treat only the large gaps as signal, and treat a domain sitting near the midpoint as unresolved rather than as average.

Where the questions come from

Nothing here was written by us. The items come from the International Personality Item Pool, the O*NET Resource Center, the University of Maryland, the WHO Collaborating Centre and published journal appendices. Each test page lists its instrument, authors, licence and the page the items were read from.

Some are outright public domain. Others are free for non-commercial use with attribution. Where a licence carries a condition, the page says so rather than burying it.

None of this is a diagnosis

The wellbeing, anxiety and self-esteem measures here are screening questionnaires. They exist to tell you whether something is worth a closer look, which is all they can do. Diagnosis happens with a clinician, in conversation, using information a questionnaire cannot reach.

Not sure where to start?

Take the Big Five. It is the model personality researchers actually use, fifty items cover it properly, and every other personality test here either shortens it, deepens it or sits alongside it. Ten minutes, and the rest of the catalogue makes more sense afterwards.

Start the Big Five

No sign up, ever. Progress saves as you go, so a long assessment can be finished across more than one sitting.

Four kinds of question

Personality

Trait models that describe how you differ from other people.

Career

Interests and the kinds of work environment that tend to fit them.

Wellbeing

Screening measures for mood, stress and self-regard.

Thinking

How you reason, decide and check your own answers.