IPIP Big Five Personality Test

50 statements — ~10 min

A free, research-based questionnaire on the five broad personality traits. Fill it in together in session, or send it to a client to complete at home.

Before you start

Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be. Read each statement and choose how accurately it describes you.

There are no right or wrong answers. Answers stay on this device and aren't saved anywhere.

Send to a client

Your client fills it in at home, from a private link with your name and logo. Results are scored and saved to your account, so you can track them over time.

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About the Big Five

This is a 50-item personality questionnaire based on the Big Five model — the most widely researched way of describing personality. It looks at five broad traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and intellect or imagination.

It comes from the International Personality Item Pool, a free, public-domain collection of personality items created so that researchers and practitioners could use well-tested questions without licence fees.

Questions: 50
Time: 10 minutes
Traits: 5
Each trait: 10–50

How it’s scored

Each statement is rated from “very inaccurate” (1) to “very accurate” (5). Some statements are worded in the opposite direction and scored in reverse. Each trait has ten statements, giving a score from 10 to 50.

There’s no total score and no good or bad result. A higher score just means more of that trait — and every trait has strengths at both ends.

Good to know

It describes personality; it doesn’t diagnose anything or measure mental health.
Scores are most meaningful when compared with others, or with the same person over time. A score in the middle of the range is common.
People tend to answer how they’d like to be seen. Encourage honest, quick answers rather than careful thinking about each one.

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