PRACTICE GUIDE ALL OPTIONS
All Options Arithmetic Practice Test
Outcry’s All Options arithmetic practice section has 80 questions in 8 minutes. These numbers describe the linked mock; the source check below distinguishes published details from practice settings.
80 arithmetic questions in 8 minutes and 26 sequences in 5 minutes are Outcry settings. Do not treat them as a confirmed live All Options format.
Outcry is not affiliated with All Options and has no access to their assessment content. This guide describes an assessment format that candidates report publicly; the questions here are generated by Outcry and are not All Options’s own.
What it screens
An Amsterdam equity derivatives market maker with a desk in Austin, Texas.
- ✓Two-digit multiplication and division without writing anything down
- ✓Fraction and decimal conversion at a glance
- ✓Percentage moves in both directions (a 20% drop needs +25% to recover)
- ✓Knowing when to skip: negative marking punishes guessing
Where it sits at All Options
The reviewed careers material establishes the trading role, but no current official 80-in-8 plus sequences specification was verified.
Practice stage: Trading skills practice · round unconfirmed. 80 arithmetic questions in 8 minutes and 26 sequences in 5 minutes are Outcry settings. Do not treat them as a confirmed live All Options format.
The format
These are the settings used by Outcry’s All Options practice sitting. They are not automatically the employer’s published format; see the linked assessment’s source check.
| Questions | 80 |
|---|---|
| Time | 8 minutes |
| Per question | 6 seconds |
| Negative marking | No |
| Answer style | Typed numeric answer, no calculator |
| Where it sits | Trading skills practice · round unconfirmed |
What it tests, with a worked example
Every example below is generated by Outcry, drawn from the same question generators the timed drills run. None of them is All Options’s.
Two-digit multiplication
Products you are expected to reach by splitting rather than by long multiplication.
Example 1
35% of 500
Answer 175
Swap it: 35% of 500 = 500% of 35 = 175.
Example 2
62% of 400
Answer 248
Swap it: 62% of 400 = 400% of 62 = 248.
Example 3
12 × 4 − 15
Answer 33
12 × 4 = 48; 48 − 15 = 33.
Fast division
Exact quotients where the divisor is chosen to make a shortcut available.
Example 1
588 ÷ 7
Answer 84
7 × 84 = 588, so the quotient is 84.
Example 2
0.25 × 132
Answer 33
A quarter of 132: halve it twice, 66 then 33.
Example 3
432 ÷ 9
Answer 48
9 × 48 = 432, so the quotient is 48.
Mixed operations under a clock
Several steps in one item, where the order you take them decides whether it fits in the time.
Example 1
1/3 of 66 = ?
Answer 22
66 ÷ 3 = 22, times 1 = 22.
Example 2
450 ÷ 3 = ?
Answer 150
Chunk it: 3 × 150 = 450, leaving 0, which is 3 × 0. The quotient is 150.
Example 3
73.46 + 7.08 = ?
Answer 80.54
73.46 + 7.08 = 80.54.
Additive chains
Long sums and differences where grouping to round numbers beats working left to right.
Example 1
489 × 99 = ?
Answer 48411
× 99 is × 100 minus one: 48,900 - 489 = 48,411.
Example 2
35% of 240 = ?
Answer 84
1% of 240 is 2.4, so 35% is 84.
Example 3
7% of 220 = ?
Answer 15.4
1% of 220 is 2.2, so 7% is 15.4.
Squares and near-squares
Products a step either side of a square, where the difference-of-squares identity is faster than multiplying.
Example
A 58 × 99 B 42 × 56 C 85 × 46 D 53 × 81
Which of these products is the largest?
- C
- D
- A
- B
Answer A
A = 5,742, B = 2,352, C = 3,910, D = 4,293, so A is the largest. Rounding each pair to the nearest ten separates them without multiplying anything out exactly.
Order of operations under pressure
Items written to punish reading left to right instead of resolving the structure first.
Example 1
What is 12% of 100?
Answer 12
1% of 100 is 1, so 12% is 12.
Example 2
11 traders each shake hands once with every other. How many handshakes?
Answer 55
C(11,2) = 11 × 10/2 = 55.
Example 3
What is 40% of 1,000?
Answer 400
1% of 1,000 is 10, so 40% is 400.
What a good score looks like
Use this mock’s score and worked review to identify skills to practise. No Outcry score guarantees a pass or a hiring outcome; a current employer threshold for this practice paper has not been verified.
How to train for it
- 01Add the clock and hold the accuracy. This is the step most people skip, and it is the one the screen measures.
- 02Sit a full timed screen end to end, so the pacing decisions happen under the same pressure as the real thing.
- 03Work the operation you avoid. Almost everyone has one - long division, or fractions, or subtraction with a borrow - and it is where the dropped marks cluster.
TRAIN IT HERE
The drills that match each section
Arithmetic Drill
2.5 timed minutes of exactly this question mix, with a ghost of your best past run to race.
Duck Duck Dash
Endless mental-math runner - one mistake ends the run, and the questions climb through ten difficulty tiers.
Sequence Sprint
Pattern recognition under the same per-question time pressure.
SIT THE FULL BATTERY
All the sections back to back on one clock, marked the way the real screen marks them, with a by-skill breakdown at the end. Included with any pass.
Also reported at All Options
Common questions
- Is this All Options’s official arithmetic test?
- No. Outcry generates its own questions. The reviewed careers material establishes the trading role, but no current official 80-in-8 plus sequences specification was verified. 80 arithmetic questions in 8 minutes and 26 sequences in 5 minutes are Outcry settings. Do not treat them as a confirmed live All Options format.
- How long is this arithmetic practice section?
- 80 questions in 8 minutes in the Outcry mock. These are practice settings unless the source check explicitly confirms them.
- How is the practice marked?
- Correct answers earn 1 mark unless the question states another weight. Wrong answers lose 0; unanswered items lose 0, including timeouts. These rules apply to this mock.
- Where can I check the employer’s process?
- See the public source check on the linked assessment. Your role-specific invitation governs the actual format, permitted tools and scoring.