Optiver-style

Optiver-Style 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.

Format

• Six sections, about 85 minutes in total. The clock does not stop between them.
• 80 in 8 is the headline: 80 arithmetic items in 8 minutes, roughly six seconds each.
• Timed sections mark negatively - +1 correct, −1 wrong, 0 for a skip. Blind guessing is negative EV.
• On the real 80-in-8, 56 is the reported pass mark and 70+ is competitive.
• NumberLogic runs 24 sequences in 25 minutes, matching the real test's published pacing.
• Likelihood List is new to Optiver's 2026 battery: rank three outcomes by probability.
• No going back within a section. Answer or skip, and the next item loads.

Sections

• 80 in 8 - 80 items, 8 minutes, 1 mark lost per wrong answer. 80 arithmetic items in 8 minutes. Integers, fractions, decimals and percentages, mixed.
• NumberLogic - 24 items, 25 minutes, 1 mark lost per wrong answer. 24 sequences in 25 minutes. Identify the rule and give the next term.
• Likelihood List - 10 items, 8 minutes, no negative marking. 10 ranking items in 8 minutes. Order three outcomes from most to least likely - new to the 2026 battery.
• Beat the Odds - 20 items, 14 minutes, 1 mark lost per wrong answer. 20 probability and expected-value items in 14 minutes. Odds conversion, EV, complements.
• Zap-N - 16 items, 12 minutes, no negative marking. 16 numerical working-memory items in 12 minutes. Hold the values, then act on them.
• Zap-Q - 18 items, 14 minutes, no negative marking. 18 abstract pattern and spatial items in 14 minutes.

Outcry is not affiliated with any firm named here. These sittings reproduce publicly reported assessment formats; the questions are generated fresh each attempt and are not any firm’s own material.