J.P. Morgan - Online Numerical Reasoning test (London, UK)

Hi everyone,

I just received an email to complete an online numerical reasoning test for J.P. Morgan after applying to their London, UK office.

a) Is everyone automatically invited to do this test or has the application pool been given a first cut already?

b) What % of people do they cut with this?

c) Any advice/resources? Has anyone done JPM's test?

I am from North America, so I have never had to do anything like this before. Any advice is appreciated!

 

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1) Depends on bank

2) 90%

c) SHL

Don't be a little bitch, these are easy.

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

SHL tests are absurdly simple.

That said practise will easily put you in the top 1%. Underestimate these are your peril.

At a company I worked for though, the recent grads were talking about their marks on the numeracy, the marks ranged from 40 to 73, I was sitting on 97, so subtracted 30 from my answer to avoid being the socially awkward penguin.

Read from that what you will, that either im some arrogant jumpstart, or I know how t do these tests really really well.

 
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If it's SHL they're easy going. PSL is a bit harder. Just my feeling. Didn't apply at JPM so don't know which one they're using. Follow the advice of Maximus if you don't feel prepped well. Further I recommend:

http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/psychotests.htm http://www.aptigenius.com/ http://www.practiceaptitudetests.com/

This should do the trick. Just get a grasp on timing.

Btw. how come that you can apply the regular way? German office is not hiring this year besides giving some former interns full time offers (started a pretty strict rule: no intern, not eligible to apply).

I applied to J.P. Morgan London, UK office as well for an analyst summer intern. Numerical test is fairly easy but I did not manage to complete the whole test in time. I missed 3 questions, but had all other questions answered correctly I think. Never practiced before, I wanted to be really sure about the answers. Only advise I can give you is to watch your time! I think practice is not necessary as it is about logical reasoning and knowing high school math. This is difficult to improve by doing more tests. You just need some luck. Given the fact that they don't give that many offers to people who use the online application and I did not complete the numerical test, I guess I am doomed

 
Wer:
I applied to J.P. Morgan London, UK office as well for an analyst summer intern. Numerical test is fairly easy but I did not manage to complete the whole test in time. I missed 3 questions, but had all other questions answered correctly I think. Never practiced before, I wanted to be really sure about the answers. Only advise I can give you is to watch your time! I think practice is not necessary as it is about logical reasoning and knowing high school math. This is difficult to improve by doing more tests. You just need some luck. Given the fact that they don't give that many offers to people who use the online application and I did not complete the numerical test, I guess I am doomed

Completely disagree. You do improve a lot doing more tests, not by learning answers, but by gaining time. The logic is always the same, so while it might take you 10s the first and second time, it takes 0.1 after doing 10 tests. I started out missing 3-4 questions like you and in the last tests I always have about 1-2 minutes to spare and I'm sure about all the answers. You shouldn't have any problems if you answered 17 correctly, but I'd rather answer all of them, it's not that much extra work.

 
Maximus Decimus Meridius:
Wer:
I applied to J.P. Morgan London, UK office as well for an analyst summer intern. Numerical test is fairly easy but I did not manage to complete the whole test in time. I missed 3 questions, but had all other questions answered correctly I think. Never practiced before, I wanted to be really sure about the answers. Only advise I can give you is to watch your time! I think practice is not necessary as it is about logical reasoning and knowing high school math. This is difficult to improve by doing more tests. You just need some luck. Given the fact that they don't give that many offers to people who use the online application and I did not complete the numerical test, I guess I am doomed

Completely disagree. You do improve a lot doing more tests, not by learning answers, but by gaining time. The logic is always the same, so while it might take you 10s the first and second time, it takes 0.1 after doing 10 tests. I started out missing 3-4 questions like you and in the last tests I always have about 1-2 minutes to spare and I'm sure about all the answers. You shouldn't have any problems if you answered 17 correctly, but I'd rather answer all of them, it's not that much extra work.

I agree with you that by practicing there could be a gain in time. However, the logic is never the same. Every problem is different and by practicing you will become more comfortable by the way of asking and maybe more self-confident. There might always be a question that you don't completely understand and takes more time to solve correctly compared to practice test questions. If you have solved similar problems before, ofcourse it takes less time. I don't assume all numerical tests are more or less the same, are they?

 

Can't comment on the books - not really my style - but for the tests I did anyway there was a lot of stuff from the Integrated Reasoning part of the GMAT so I would give that a look. If you just look at SHL in general you should be fine, theres a lot of free practice tests floating around. The tests aren't really that hard.

S&T ones on the hand were completely different, a good bit harder and different at each place.

 
matayo:

you are most definitely not allowed to use a calculator if they give you a test during an interview

shut up. you haven't a clue what you're on about.

these things really aren't a big deal. banks will sit you in a room with the other candidates that day, and leave you to it, you could cheat if you really wanted by just chatting to guys in the room. they don't seem to take it too seriously. i did have some people (more than one occasion, more than one bank) bring up my high scores (self high-five), but it's not going to swing a vote for you in your favour much.

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

Is this for the UK? Yes, you are definitely allowed a calculator in the retake at the office (assuming you mean the SHL ones?). As the purpose of these is to verify your score, they would want to mimic the conditions.

 

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