MOCK SCREENS
Sit the screen before the screen sits you.
34 full-length sittings, each modelled on a firm’s publicly reported screening format. Real clock, answer sheet, flag-for-review, negative marking where the original has it, and an accuracy breakdown by skill when you submit. Fresh questions every attempt, so there is nothing to memorise between sittings. Outcry is not affiliated with any firm listed.
- SITTINGS
- 34
- TRACKS
- 6
- SHORTEST
- 13m
- LONGEST
- 180m
Optiver
Optiver Trading Assessment
A full-length sitting modelled on Optiver's published screening battery - 80 in 8, NumberLogic, Beat the Odds, the new-for-2026 Likelihood List, Zap-N and Zap-Q. Negative marking on the timed sections, and numbers chosen so a shortcut beats long multiplication.
SIG
SIG Problem-Solving Assessment
Modelled on Susquehanna's pre-resume Problem-Solving Assessment: 17 mixed probability and logic items drawn from a recycled bank where only the numbers change between candidates. Roughly three and a half minutes an item, so the pressure is depth rather than speed - the problems go further than anything on the Optiver battery.
SIG
SIG Quantitative Evaluation
SIG's short screen, not the long one. 16 items in 20 minutes is about seventy-five seconds an item, so the work has to be arithmetic you can carry in your head: percentages, odds in all three notations, fast expected value, and estimates with a tolerance band. The Problem-Solving Assessment is the deep paper. This is the quick one.
SIG
SIG Equity Research
The research side of SIG rather than the trading side. Read a small statement, get the margin and the days right, put a multiple on it, then read a footnote and say what the number does not tell you. 20 items in 30 minutes across three sections, and unlike the trading screens you can move between questions.
Akuna Capital
Akuna Math and Sequences
Both halves of Akuna's first-round HackerRank screen: 80 typed arithmetic items in 8 minutes, then 24 sequences in 12. The typed answers are the point - Optiver's 80-in-8 gives you four options to eliminate from, and this one gives you a blank box.
Akuna Capital
Akuna Grid Game
The stage most candidates find strangest. Akuna's second round includes a recorded grid game: a 13-row letter matrix, one row drawn at random as the winner, and a run of timed questions asking you to price and compare wagers on it. This is a written model of the same decision - 18 items across an open board, a half-hidden board, and a section on how much of the edge you should actually take.
Five Rings
Five Rings Quant Trading Screen
The proctored HackerRank screen Five Rings puts in front of Quant Trading candidates before anyone interviews them: 17 typed items in 17 minutes, written so that exact arithmetic runs out of clock. Picking the right approximation is the test.
Flow Traders
Flow Traders Trading Assessment
Two timed sections with the same marking and opposite rules about skipping: 60 arithmetic items in 6 minutes where you cannot leave a blank, then 26 sequences in 26 minutes where you can. Both mark +1 correct, -1 wrong, which makes the two halves reward different behaviour.
Old Mission
Old Mission Quant Screen
The HackerRank first round Old Mission puts in front of quant candidates: 25 quantitative multiple-choice items in 35 minutes, then one coding problem on its own 25-minute clock. Probability, expected value, combinatorics, Bayes, sequences and Markov chains, then an editor.
Belvedere
Belvedere Technical Challenge
Belvedere's Stage 2 on the trading track: 14 probability and logic questions against a 25-minute clock, sent out with a multi-day window to start it in, then a short coding section. Fourteen questions is the whole test, so a single careless one costs more here than anywhere else in the catalog.
CTC
CTC Aptitude Assessment
Chicago Trading Company's first gate: 50 questions in 15 minutes, about 18 seconds each, and half of them are verbal. Synonyms, antonyms, analogies and sentence logic sit next to the mental arithmetic, the pattern sequences and the Fermi estimates - which catches out anyone who prepared for a maths test.
IMC Trading
IMC Assessment
IMC screens on speed and accuracy rather than on arithmetic: the best-attested stage is BrainsFirst's NeurOlympics, four neuroscience-based games run for about 45 minutes. This sitting runs a battery in that spirit, then the 15-question quant screen reported for the trader track.
Mako Trading
Mako Aptitude and Round Two
Mako's two online stages back to back. First the 15-minute aptitude test, 37 items at 24 seconds each, where the questions are easy and the clock is the whole difficulty. Then round two, 28 multiple-choice items in 30 minutes, where the pace relaxes and the questions expect real work.
Maven Securities
Maven Securities Online Assessment
Maven's numerical and probability assessments back to back: 50 mental maths items in 5 minutes, 30 sequences in 6 minutes, then 18 probability items in 30 minutes marked +1 for a correct answer and minus 1 for a wrong one. That last rule is the reason to sit this test, because with five options a blind guess loses money.
Da Vinci Derivatives
Da Vinci Numerical Quiz and Career Match
Both of Da Vinci's reported online tests. The Numerical Quiz comes first for most candidates: 20 typed items in 12 minutes on arithmetic, quick probability and a little statistics and linear algebra. Career Match, which turns up mainly in campus hiring, shifts the weight onto combinatorics and game theory.
Wincent
Wincent Online Problems
Wincent's first stage is a take-home problem set on probability, logic and mathematical skills. The firm names the stage and describes the content in three words, and publishes nothing else, so this sitting runs 16 items in 45 minutes on Outcry's clock rather than Wincent's.
All Options
All Options Trading Assessment
The Amsterdam arithmetic sprint in its purest form: 80 items in 8 minutes, six seconds each, then 26 sequences in 5 minutes. Nothing here is hard on its own. The clock is the entire test, and pace is the only thing it measures.
Jane Street
Jane Street Strategy and Product Assessment
The one Jane Street stage that is an online assessment: the Strategy and Product screen, an hour of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on business reasoning, estimation, tables, statistics and unit economics. Trading candidates are not sent a test at all, which is the first thing this card says.
Citadel
Citadel Dual Online Assessment
Two screens Citadel candidates report, run back to back. A 50-item cognitive test at fourteen seconds an item, then a 15-item probability OA covering combinatorics, Bayes, Markov chains and hypothesis testing. They are different time-pressure problems: the first rewards triage, the second rewards a clean setup.
DRW
DRW Quantitative Challenge
Modelled on DRW's take-home technical challenge, which for trading and research roles is what DRW calls a quantitative challenge: substantial questions spanning probability, statistics, Markov chains, regression and game theory. No negative marking. The difficulty is in the working.
G-Research
G-Research Online Quant Quiz
The 90-minute online quiz G-Research puts in front of quant candidates, built to the structure the firm published itself: eight compulsory short questions, then one long one. The topic list is G-Research's own, which is why this is the one screen in the catalog that puts a differential equation in front of a candidate. The firm says the quiz assesses basic skills rather than advanced mathematics, so the pressure is fluency, not invention.
Marshall Wace
Marshall Wace Invigilated Quant Paper
The single two-hour written paper Marshall Wace now sits candidates at a Pearson VUE test centre, with the online tests dropped. Fourteen free-response questions carrying weighted marks, across probability, statistics, regression, algebra, matrices, optimization and algorithm design.
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs Strats HackerRank Battery
The HackerRank modules a Quantitative Strategist applicant is assigned: 30 minutes of coding, then 22 minutes of multiple-choice maths over probability, statistics, calculus and linear algebra. Two separate clocks, 52 minutes end to end.
Two Sigma
Two Sigma Quant Research Online Assessment
The long HackerRank sitting candidates describe for Two Sigma: three questions in about three hours under one block timer, normally one algorithmic and two data-analysis. Libraries are allowed on the real thing, which moves the bar from recalling an algorithm to implementing a regression, an interpolation or a rolling statistic that is correct at the edges and fast enough at size.
Headlands
Headlands Quant Research Screen
One 70-minute HackerRank sitting in four blocks: 10 statistics multiple choice, 4 free-response statistics questions, one C++ problem, then two more in any language. 17 items end to end, and the free-response block is the one that decides it.
Squarepoint
Squarepoint HackerRank Screen
An hour on HackerRank: short statistics, two coding problems, and then one question that unfolds over six parts and ends with you writing the dynamic programme. The cascade is the part worth practising - almost nothing else screens that way.
D. E. Shaw
D. E. Shaw India Campus Online Test
D. E. Shaw runs no online assessment for its US or UK quant roles - that process is interviews from the start. This sitting models the India campus test instead: 138 marks over 95 minutes on HackerRank, four sections, no going back, and a third of a question's marks lost for a wrong multiple-choice answer.
Options theory
Options Theory and Greeks
The options round that option market makers run at interview, sat as a paper. Thirty items in an hour: payoffs, parity, structures and binomial pricing first, then the greeks - which way each one moves, where it is biggest, and what it costs to be long it.
Quant brainteasers
Quant Interview Brainteasers
The puzzle round that sits inside interviews across the industry, not any one firm's test. 36 items across probability, reasoning and mathematics, every one generated fresh: the counts, the deck, the constraint set and the target change on each attempt, so the answer has to be worked rather than recalled.
Quant research
Quant Research Screen
Modelled on the long-form research online assessments. Distribution theory and stochastic processes in the first section, then look-ahead, survivorship and multiple-comparison questions in the second.
Hudson River Trading
Quant Developer Online Assessment
Modelled on the HackerRank and CodeSignal screens that gate low-latency engineering roles: four problems you implement and submit, auto-graded against hidden tests, with performance constraints that fail a correct-but-slow solution.
Bank risk
Risk Analyst Screen
Modelled on sell-side and clearing risk screens. You compute VaR and Expected Shortfall on a book, then answer on correlation breakdown, fat tails and the Greeks under stress.
Econ consulting
Economic Consulting Analyst Screen
Econ consulting firms do not run an online test. Cornerstone publishes a two-round interview process with a case in each round, and Analysis Group publishes a behavioural round followed by a Superday. This sitting models the analyst work those cases are drawn from: estimate a difference-in-differences from a table, spot what breaks it, and run the HHI and market-definition arithmetic from a merger review.
SOA / CAS
Actuarial Analyst Screen
Modelled on SOA Exam P, whose syllabus is published in full: 30 items in three hours, weighted the way the real paper is - general probability, then a double helping of univariate random variables, then multivariate. Life contingencies and reserving sit alongside, as the analyst work either route leads to.
How the sittings work
Is a sitting the same every time?
No. Every item is generated from the same archetype bank the real format draws on, so the shape of the paper is fixed but the numbers are not. Sitting the Optiver battery twice gives you two different papers.
Does negative marking really apply?
On the sections where the published format has it, yes - the Optiver timed sections mark you down for a wrong answer, so guessing costs you. Sections without it in the original do not have it here.
What do I get at the end?
A mark, a section-by-section breakdown, and accuracy by skill mapped onto the same readiness gauges your profile uses. Every wrong answer shows the working.
Do I need a pass?
For a full sitting, yes. Tickets don't unlock them. The practice guides that explain each format are free to read, and the drills underneath are playable within your four free runs a day.
Outcry is not affiliated with any firm named on this page. These sittings reproduce publicly reported assessment formats; the questions are generated fresh each attempt and are not any firm’s own material.