The Exam Hall.
Practice for bank recruitment, seat by seat and round by round, across the front, middle and back office.
34 SEATS · 5 ROUNDS · 3 SEAT PAPERS · FREE
CHOOSE YOUR ROUND
- Numerical reasoning20 QUESTIONS · 25 MINUTES
- Verbal reasoning20 QUESTIONS · 20 MINUTES
- Situational judgement22 FILES · ABOUT 22 MINUTES
- The interview204 QUESTIONS · 34 SEATS
- The assessment centre45 MINUTES · ONE WHOLE CASE
Every question is original. None is any bank’s real test.
CHOOSE YOUR SEAT
Front office
The seats that face the customer or the market.
9 SEATS
Middle office
The seats that decide, watch and check: credit and risk.
12 SEATS
- Credit analystPAPER →
- Credit sanctionerPAPER →
- Portfolio managerPAPER →
- Workout and recoveries managerPAPER →
- Lending operations officerPAPER →
- Credit risk analyst→
- Market and liquidity risk analyst→
- Operational risk analyst→
- Model validator→
- Compliance officerPAPER →
- Financial crime analystPAPER →
- Internal auditor→
Back office
The seats that keep the bank running: finance, technology, operations and the functions.
13 SEATS
THE SEAT PAPERS
25 QUESTIONS · 30 MINUTES
Credit Analyst Practice Test
Cover, leverage and cash; a borrower's three years of accounts; and the calls a credit desk makes.
Sit it
24 QUESTIONS · 30 MINUTES
AML and Financial Crime Practice Test
The stages, due diligence and sanctions; a customer's statement to review; and the calls an analyst makes.
Sit it
23 QUESTIONS · 30 MINUTES
Relationship Manager Practice Test
A client's cash and costs; one client meeting from visit note to credit's answer; and price, conduct and telling a client no.
Sit it
THE ROUNDS
20 QUESTIONS · 25 MINUTES
Numerical reasoning
Tables of figures, and little time to answer questions on them.
Work through a bank's own tables, timed or as practice, with the working shown.
Start
20 QUESTIONS · 20 MINUTES
Verbal reasoning
A passage and a statement: true, false, or cannot say.
Judge statements about a bank's own documents, from the passage alone.
Start
22 FILES · ABOUT 22 MINUTES
Situational judgement
A working situation and four things you could do.
Make each call, then see how far every option sits from a senior banker's read.
Start
204 QUESTIONS · 34 SEATS
The interview
Questions your seat's panel is likely to ask, live or to a camera.
Pick your seat, take one question at a time and answer aloud against a two-minute clock.
Start
45 MINUTES · ONE WHOLE CASE
The assessment centre
A pack of financials, a request and a recommendation to write down.
Take a whole case against the clock and mark yourself on what the room scores.
Start
A WHOLE CASE TO TAKE AWAY
The paid files can also be claimed with coupons — 50 for opening a desk, 25 for every issue you answer, and more for turning up week after week and finishing a season. Open a desk →
Read one complete case first
Case 01 of the interview case pack — Northmark Engineering, the file, the diagnostic and the ninety-second walkthrough — in full, for an email address.
Banking Interview Case Pack — Vol 1
Four composite cases. Interview prep for credit-track candidates. 42-page PDF + Excel workbook.
ALSO IN THE HALL
- The PlacementTwenty-four files, and a card showing where you read from.
- The In-TrayOne-minute files, one a day.
- The GroundworkWhat a banker works from: the borrower, the loan, the bank, the economy and the rules.
- The NumberCredit calculations, with the working shown.
- The Interview QuizSee where your answers lean.
- What Jobs Do Banks Hire ForEvery seat on one board, if you have not chosen yet.
- Bank Graduate ProgrammesWhere to apply, and when.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
Are these real bank tests?
No. Every question here is original, and none is a question from any bank's test or a candidate's memory of one. The point is to practise the kind of decision each round asks for, not to see the paper in advance.
Which jobs does it cover?
All 34 seats on the site's board, across the front, middle and back office. The rounds work for any seat, and 3 groups of seats also have a paper of their own. The depth is not even: this site's authority is credit judgment, so the further a seat sits from the lending desk, the shorter and plainer its material.
What rounds does a bank's recruitment usually have?
Usually an online assessment, an interview that may be recorded, and for many graduate programmes an assessment centre with a case. The order and the mix differ by bank and by programme, so read the careers page of the bank you are applying to before you plan your practice.
What does it cost?
Nothing to practise, and no account is needed. The paid item here is a set of worked cases for candidates who want more than the free case. Nothing you buy unlocks any question, and nothing free is held back until you pay.
Does it include numerical and verbal reasoning tests?
Yes: a paper of each, set on a bank's own tables and documents. They are original, and they are not any test publisher's questions, so expect the format to differ on the day. Logic and diagram puzzles are not covered here.
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