Just did the online assessment for Nomura SA26 and not feeling too confident. Got 9/18 on the numerical reasoning (6 graphs) although i'm sure all 9 were correct. Am I cooked? Think I did much better on the puzzle test however..
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lol get good
These OAs have no g-loading whatsoever so they're not a flex lmao
oh i agree completely. however, answering only 9 in the numerical is never going to pass the benchmark. practicing on graduate first or jtp is useful. no point in getting rejected without even putting forward your CV
I did all 18 but im sure not all of them were correct. On the planning one I completed up to lvl 10, wondering how you guys did on that (BS test IMO btw)
awful test, but still not the worst i've done.
I got to Level 9 on that section, not sure if that's a competitive score. I did try and use the least amount of moves throughout though.
It should be, especially if you actually made an effort to minimize moves. Cant say the same about myself lmao, I couldn't be bothered to solve it in my head before actually trying it so i got up to like 20 moves in lvl 9 and 10
I got to Lvl 9 but skipped a couple
may i ask how to train for that? many thanks!
I answered all 18 and have same thoughts as you on how I did. I got to level 12-13 with the planning. I was surprised I didn't get an immediate automatic report on how i did tbh
12 is impressive, you must have been flying, I didn’t find any of the items particularly challenging but still couldn’t get that much
I’m more worried about applying through a link meant for a 60 person event ngl
Well they're not accepting applications app from people who didn't go to the event so lol
Lol what, I didn't see that anywhere. I thought the link was open to all candidates?
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