Easy Quant Analyst Interview Questions
Everything asked of quant analysts, filtered to the easy end - useful for calibrating where you actually are.
84 questions, all free to practise. The topics that come up most are probability (23), statistics (23), random variables (19), combinatorics (14).
- 1 immediately before 2EasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A compound-interest limit in disguiseEasyCalculusView →
- A dice sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityView →
- A difference of two growing rootsEasyCalculusView →
- A dry weekend, assuming independenceEasyProbabilityView →
- A heart or a king given redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A hundred days of compoundingEasyBrainteasersFinance & DerivativesView →
- A mixed second partial derivativeEasyCalculusView →
- A perfect-power dice sumEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A repeated digit in the PINEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A three given a sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A two-sigma tail probabilityEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Adjacent faces on two diceEasyProbabilityView →
- All three land in the same halfEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- An even palindromeEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- An integrand with a cornerEasyCalculusView →
- An old man's life in fractionsEasyBrainteasersView →
- Area between a parabola and a lineEasyCalculusView →
- Average after dropping a subgroupEasyStatisticsView →
- Average distance on an intervalEasyRandom VariablesView →
- Average speed over three lapsEasyBrainteasersView →
- BALLOON arrangements bookended by vowelsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Backing out the correlation from portfolio riskEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Bacteria doubling on a clockEasyBrainteasersView →
- Break-even move after a round tripEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Butterfly spread maximum profitEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Chi-square test for a varianceEasyStatisticsView →
- Codes with exactly one vowelEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Coin count past two sigmaEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Committee with both sexesEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Comparing implied vols from two quotesEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Correlation from a summed varianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Correlation of X with X plus YEasyStatisticsView →
- Correlation under rescalingEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Counting arithmetic triplesEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Counting legs at the meetupEasyBrainteasersView →
- Covariance of a chi-square and a ratioEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Distinct-digit numbers using a 7EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Divisible by 2 or 3EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Drawing a matching pair of socksEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Even sum bigger than sevenEasyProbabilityView →
- Expected sets for a favored playerEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Finding the light coinEasyBrainteasersView →
- First success on an even trialEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Hands directly oppositeEasyBrainteasersView →
- How many new hires to lift the averageEasyStatisticsView →
- Landing in the ringEasyProbabilityView →
- Largest possible covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Length of a vector differenceEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Matching a uniform and an exponentialEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Merging two round-robinsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Net P&L of a two-leg book from DV01EasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- No heads in a random number of flipsEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Pairs who swap hatsEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Present value of a deferred growing perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Product divisible by fourEasyProbabilityView →
- R-squared from the sums of squaresEasyStatisticsView →
- R-squared when you duplicate every pointEasyStatisticsView →
- Rank of a matrix productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Rate of change of a triangle's perimeterEasyCalculusView →
- Regressing with zero covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Repeated digit on a plateEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Repricing a bond after a yield jumpEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Return speed for a target averageEasyBrainteasersView →
- Sample SD with Bessel's correctionEasyStatisticsView →
- Seating with a gapEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Second moment from varianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Second roll beats the firstEasyProbabilityView →
- Settlement on a pay-fixed FRAEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Sharing your weekday of birthEasyProbabilityView →
- Sharpe of two combined uncorrelated strategiesEasyStatisticsFinance & DerivativesView →
- Shrinking the standard errorEasyStatisticsView →
- Skewness of a Laplace variableEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Spread of a two-card sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Squared payout on even facesEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Standard deviation of a correlated sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Sum of the OLS coefficientsEasyStatisticsView →
- Summing n plus one over two to the nEasyCalculusView →
- The clock that runs fastEasyBrainteasersView →
- The first die beats the secondEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- The second draw is redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Two heads given an even countEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Upper bound on a dry weekendEasyProbabilityView →
- Valuing a level perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
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