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One assessment, free to take. Adaptive ability items plus RIASEC and persistence — typically ~15–25 minutes. Your ability profile and top three matches are free; Pathfinder full report is $29.
How MajorMatch Works
MajorMatch is a proprietary matching assessment that measures five ability domains, Holland RIASEC interests, and persistence — then ranks 100 majors with wage and unemployment context. Free sample shows your top 3. The $29 Pathfinder unlocks the full report. No MBTI labels. No fake star ratings. Just an honest match engine.
Simple 4-Step Process
Most students spend months agonizing over their college major. MajorMatch replaces that uncertainty with a structured, science-backed process that takes less time than watching a single episode of television.
One assessment, free to take. Adaptive ability items plus RIASEC and persistence — typically ~15–25 minutes. Your ability profile and top three matches are free; Pathfinder full report is $29.
Right/wrong cognitive items across Numeracy, Verbal, Logic, Data, and Spatial domains — not agree/disagree bubbles. Difficulty adapts by performance. Then forced-choice interest and follow-through items complete the profile.
Questions adapt by abilityScores across five ability domains with confidence bands, a RIASEC interest vector, and a persistence signal — matched against 100 major profiles with wage/unemployment metadata.
Proprietary matching — not a clinical instrumentFree: top 3 with pay bands. $29 Pathfinder: top 10 majors with full reasoning, paths your scores argue against, state colleges with tuition, and a PDF to share. Built for parents.
Sample free · unlock after payWhat the Live Engine Measures
Most free quizzes ask what you like and stop there. MajorMatch measures what you can do under pressure, what interests you (Holland RIASEC), and whether you follow through — then ranks 100 majors with labor-market context.
Rates, percents, compounding, quantitative sense — adaptive right/wrong items with a confidence band.
Precise language, implication, reading load. Critical for law, communications, and writing-heavy majors.
Rules, contradictions, necessary conclusions. Strong signal for CS, philosophy, and analytical majors.
Tables, charts, noisy evidence. Maps to analytics, economics, research, and business majors.
Systems, shapes, physical intuition. Key for engineering, architecture, and hands-on applied paths.
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional — forced-choice interest matching.
Follow-through under boring-but-necessary work. Demanding majors get an honest persistence check.
Each major carries early/mid wage and unemployment metadata so fit isn't divorced from outcomes.
Honest Methodology
We do not claim a validated clinical instrument. The live engine combines adaptive ability, Holland RIASEC, and persistence — then pairs fits with BLS-style labor metadata. Full detail on Our Science.
Interest alone is not a plan. We measure what students can do under pressure across five domains with confidence bands, then compare those scores to what each major actually demands. See how to choose a college major.
Holland's six themes remain one of the most useful interest frameworks in vocational psychology. Forced-choice items build an interest vector matched to each major's signature — without administering commercial interest inventories.
Follow-through questions adjust for grad-school-heavy and high-demand paths. Wage and unemployment context from our major metadata keeps the shortlist honest for parents.
Common Questions
Typically about 15 to 25 minutes. Ability items adapt by performance; interest and persistence items finish the profile. Sample results appear instantly.
Five adaptive ability domains (Numeracy, Verbal, Logic, Data, Spatial), Holland RIASEC interests, and persistence/follow-through — then fit against 100 majors with wage and unemployment metadata.
A proprietary composite: ability fit, RIASEC interest fit, context (including persistence), and outcome metadata. Majors are ranked so families see a clear hierarchy — free sample shows top 3; $29 unlocks the full Pathfinder report.
No — and we won't pretend it is. It is proprietary matching informed by ability + Holland RIASEC + persistence research traditions, paired with BLS-style labor data. See Our Science for the honest methodology.
The assessment is free to retake. A Pathfinder unlock covers that student's report. Taking the assessment again does not charge them again for the same unlock.
You see your free top-3 sample with pay bands immediately. Unlocking Pathfinder reveals your top 10 majors with full reasoning, avoided paths, and the PDF.
School tests often stop at Holland interest labels. MajorMatch adds adaptive ability scoring and persistence, then ranks specific majors with labor-market context — available directly to families without school enrollment.
Free adaptive assessment. Top 3 matches free. Pathfinder ($29 one-time) unlocks top 10 with full depth — no subscription.
Start the Free AssessmentInstant sample results. Stripe unlock when you want the full map.