Optiver Trading Intern - Quant Assesment

I applied to a quant trading internship at Optiver about a week ago and just got an email from HR to complete the quantitative assessment. The test is 8 minutes of speed arithmetic that's 80 questions long (yikes), and a 17-minute long quantitative skills test (assuming this is word problems or?). Does anyone have any insights on how I could best prepare? Honestly a little scared - I have a background in applied calc and statistics(econ major, computational data science minor) so I'm ~good~ at math BUT I'm not great at doing it fast and in my head (but I mean who is really). I read through some forums that gave me an idea about what the 80 question section was going to be like but I'm a little lost as to what the "quantitative skills test" is going to entail. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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