The MVPI is not about capability or risk. It asks what you actually want from work — and therefore which cultures you will thrive in and which will quietly wear you down.
Free to start. Every item is generated fresh, marked with a full worked solution, and ranked on a 1–9 stanine band that recalibrates as more candidates practise.
10
value scales
40
items
3-point
agree / uncertain / disagree
What it measures
The MVPI covers ten motives — recognition, power, hedonism, altruistic, affiliation, tradition, security, commerce, aesthetics and science. Together they describe the environment you will seek out and the one you will build if given the chance, which is why it is used for culture fit and team composition rather than pass/fail screening.
The format
Where marks are lost
Answering as the person the job advert describes. The MVPI is the one inventory where distorting your answers is self-defeating: a fabricated profile gets you into an environment built for someone else's motives. Use the practice to find out what your profile actually is, then decide whether the role matches it.
Why practise here
All 40 items across the 10 value scales, in the real three-point format
A profile that names the environments each elevated motive points toward
Written natively in all eight app languages rather than machine-translated
An AI debrief that reads your top and bottom motives together, which is where the useful signal is
Pairs with the HPI and HDS practices for the full Hogan picture
Where you will meet it
Hiring stages where this format is commonly used. Persona Prep is not affiliated with Hogan and does not reproduce their questions — we build practice in the same format, from our own generators.
With Persona Prep Pro
One subscription covers the whole assessment library, not just this exercise — because almost nobody is invited to sit only one module.
The full aptitude library
SHL Verify, Aon cut-e, Hogan and Saville formats — numerical, verbal, inductive, deductive, mechanical, checking and the interactive modules.
A rank, not just a score
Every run is placed on a 1–9 stanine band that recalibrates as the candidate pool grows, so you know your position.
A course per exercise
What it measures, the trap that costs marks, and worked items from every format — then the exercise itself.
Unlimited fresh items
Everything is generated, so you never run out and never memorise a bank.
Written + voice AI coach
Reads your results across exercises and tells you which two to fix first.
Personality practice too
SHL OPQ32, Hogan HPI/HDS/MVPI, Saville Wave, ADEPT-15 and 16PF, with full profile reports.
The Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory measures what someone wants from work across ten scales: recognition, power, hedonism, altruistic, affiliation, tradition, security, commerce, aesthetics and science. It is used for culture fit and team composition rather than as a screening filter.
No. There is only fit and misfit with a given environment. A high commerce and power profile thrives in a place that would exhaust someone whose top motives are altruistic and aesthetics, and the reverse holds equally.
It is the inventory where distortion is most self-defeating. Answering as the person the job advert describes can land you in an environment built for someone else's motives — which is the situation the MVPI exists to prevent on both sides.
Hogan
Hogan Development Survey
The HDS does not measure who you are on a good day. It measures the eleven behaviours that show up when the pressure is on and the guard drops.
Hogan
Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory
The HBRI reports two streams: reasoning with numbers and reasoning with arguments. Practise both, because a lopsided profile is what the report actually shows.
SHL
Verify Verbal Reasoning
A short business passage, a statement, and three buttons: True, False, Cannot say. The whole difficulty of this format lives in the third one.
Playable sample questions, worked solutions, instant feedback.
What candidates commonly report facing, and which format to train.