IPIP-NEO-120 Personality Test
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, each placed from low to high. Six facets under each domain, such as Anxiety, Assertiveness, Orderliness and Imagination, in the paid full report. Same Conscientiousness score, different people: one keeps a tidy desk, the other meets every deadline, and the facets tell them apart.
What You'll Discover
Five domain scores
Five domain scoresOpenness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, each placed from low to high
Thirty facet scores (paid)
Six facets under each domain, such as Anxiety, Assertiveness, Orderliness and Imagination, in the paid full report
Why the facets matter
Why the facets matterSame Conscientiousness score, different people: one keeps a tidy desk, the other meets every deadline, and the facets tell them apart
Sample Result
🔬 Research & Sources
The IPIP-NEO-120 comes from John A. Johnson's 2014 paper in the Journal of Research in Personality (volume 51, pages 78-89). It is a 120-item short form of the 300-item IPIP-NEO, and four items measure each of its 30 facets, six per domain. The items are drawn from the International Personality Item Pool, a public-domain collection begun by Lewis Goldberg and hosted by the Oregon Research Institute, so anyone may copy, edit or translate them without permission. Our free result reports the five domains; the facet breakdown is part of the paid full report. This is a self-report inventory for education, not a clinical instrument.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Big Five personality test?
The Big Five describes personality on five scales: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, or OCEAN for short. It grew out of statistical work on the words people use to describe one another, and it is the trait model most personality research uses.
How long does the IPIP-NEO-120 test take?
The IPIP-NEO-120 has 120 questions and takes about 8 minutes. The length comes from the facets: each of 30 narrower traits gets its own short block of items. You see where you land on the five main traits as soon as you finish. The facet breakdown belongs to the paid full report.
Is the Big Five test accurate for career matching?
Partly. Conscientiousness predicts job performance across many occupations (Barrick, Mount & Judge, 2001), though the link is modest, and the other traits matter mostly in particular jobs. Barrick, Mount & Gupta (2003) found that Openness tracks Artistic interests most closely and Investigative interests too. Personality and interests overlap only in part, so a Big Five result works best next to an interest test such as RIASEC.
Can I retake the Big Five test?
Yes, as often as you like. Big Five scores stay fairly steady through adulthood and drift slowly over the years, so a retake a few weeks later should land close to the first. Mood and the day you pick can still shift a score a little, since every answer is a self-judgment.
How does Big Five compare to MBTI?
The Big Five puts you on a scale for each of five traits, so no cutoff turns an introvert into an extravert. The MBTI sorts you into one of 16 types through four either-or choices, and Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs built it on Carl Jung's Psychological Types. Researchers generally prefer the Big Five because its scales are continuous and have held up across many samples. The MBTI is more common in workplace training.
What careers match high Openness scores?
Openness goes with Artistic interests and also with Investigative ones (Barrick, Mount & Gupta, 2003). People high in it often look at design, writing, UX, research or starting a company, where new ideas are part of the job. These are group tendencies, and a score cannot promise you would like any one role.
Is the Big Five test free?
Yes. The test is free, needs no sign-up, and shows where you land on the five traits when you finish. A paid report adds the 30-facet breakdown and sections on work and relationships. Your result is stored in your browser, and an account keeps it available on your other devices.