HSBC Investment Global Bankin Program

I'm in the same boat. I'm about to complete the assessment later today. I found this on WSO earlier from someone who took the assessment, although it's pretty old:

jgsim:

I did it to get an interview for an internship last year. It is a joke. The math part involves very basic math and drawing conclusions from graphs. I think some of the questions involved converting one currency to another (and you picked the proper exchange rate to use off of some sort of chart). It's really easy..nothing to worry about. It reminded me of the easier SAT math type questions. The verbal section is a bit more difficult, but still quite easy. I believe you read a short paragraph and then are asked a question about what was stated or implied in the paragraph. Most of the questions were very straightforward and basically they just asked if a statement was true or not based on the reading. The statement was like a rewording of one sentence in the paragraph or something completely out of the blue (so, obviously a not true answer). I believe there are thorough directions along with practice questions before you begin the test.

I think you are required to pass the test before they will interview you, but I'm not sure how well you have to do to pass. It's weird, but I remember at the presentation they gave at my school, they said only like 50% of people pass the test. So that leads me to believe that you have to get a large number of the questions right since they're pretty easy.

One thing though - just make sure you pace yourself appropriately. There are like 20-25 (I don't remember exactly) questions to answer in about 30 minutes for each section, so you need to work quickly otherwise you will not finish. Oh, and have a calculator on hand.

https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/hsbc-shl-online-test