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The JG Test

THE JG TEST™

How Are You Wired — And How Well Are You Using It?

Personality matters. Intelligence matters. Judgment matters. But none of them independently determine what someone does with their life.

This assessment looks at how you think, decide, adapt and execute — then identifies the traits that may give you an advantage and the ones that may be getting in your way.

12 QUESTIONS / 3 DIMENSIONS

Personality & Operating Style • Reasoning • Applied Judgment

PART I — HOW YOU’RE WIRED

1. You’re handed a complicated project in an area you know very little about. What is your natural first move?
A. Start researching until I understand the landscape.
B. Find someone who has already solved something similar.
C. Start working and learn what I need as problems appear.
D. Break it into smaller problems and attack them systematically.

2. Which criticism would bother you most if you suspected it was true?
A. You have more potential than your results currently show.
B. You’re succeeding, but I’m not sure you’re pursuing what you actually want.
C. You create so many possibilities that you dilute your attention.
D. You know what to do but don’t execute consistently enough.

3. You have three promising opportunities and realistically only enough time to pursue one properly. What do you do?
A. Choose the one with the largest potential upside.
B. Choose the one with the highest probability of succeeding.
C. Try to structure things so I can keep all three alive.
D. Decide which best fits the life I’m actually trying to build.

4. Someone you genuinely respect strongly disagrees with a major decision you’re making. What happens next?
A. I back myself. Good judgment sometimes requires standing alone.
B. I ask them to make the strongest possible argument against my position.
C. I examine whether ego or attachment is affecting my judgment.
D. I find a way to test the disagreement with real-world evidence.

PART II — HOW YOU THINK

5. A bat and ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
A. 10 cents
B. 5 cents
C. 15 cents
D. 20 cents

6. A business increases revenue 50% one year and decreases 50% the next. Compared with where it started, revenue is:
A. The same
B. 25% lower
C. 10% lower
D. 25% higher

7. What number comes next: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ___?
A. 36
B. 40
C. 42
D. 44

8. You can choose one of two investments. Investment A has a 100% chance of returning $20,000. Investment B has a 25% chance of returning $100,000 and a 75% chance of returning $0. Which has the higher expected monetary value?
A. Investment A
B. Investment B
C. They are equal
D. There isn’t enough information

PART III — HOW YOU OPERATE IN THE REAL WORLD

9. You’ve spent two years and significant money building something. New evidence suggests the opportunity is much smaller than you originally believed. What matters most now?
A. I’ve invested too much to walk away now.
B. Whether the opportunity justifies the NEXT dollar and NEXT year.
C. Whether I can pivot what I’ve already built into something better.
D. Whether someone more experienced thinks I should continue.

10. A critical path to your goal suddenly disappears — a partner backs out, funding falls through or an opportunity closes. Your first instinct is:
A. Find another path to the same outcome.
B. Reconsider whether the goal itself still makes sense.
C. Push harder on the original path until it reopens.
D. Step back before reacting and determine what the setback actually changed.

11. Five years from now your life looks impressive to other people, but you’re privately disappointed. Which explanation would concern you most?
A. I won the wrong game.
B. I worked hard but failed to create leverage.
C. I sacrificed relationships, health or experiences success couldn’t replace.
D. I stayed busy but never concentrated long enough to become exceptional.

12. You can ask someone with exceptional judgment ONE question about your life and know you’ll receive a truthful answer. What do you ask?
A. What am I not seeing about myself?
B. Where am I wasting the most potential?
C. What should I stop doing?
D. What should I double down on?

YOUR JG PATTERN™

SECRET SAUCE

POTENTIAL BLIND SPOT

REASONING PERFORMANCE

JG QUESTION

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The JG Test is a proprietary self-assessment intended for personal insight. Reasoning Performance reflects performance on the reasoning questions in this assessment and is not an IQ score or clinical psychological assessment.

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