Trading Aptitude Tests Interview Questions for Quant Analysts
The same round is marked differently depending on the seat you are interviewing for. This is the trading aptitude tests set as it applies to quant analysts.
61 questions, all free to practise. The split is 42 easy, 19 medium. The topics that come up most are probability (16), combinatorics (13), brainteasers (12), random variables (10).
- 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 mixed second partial derivativeEasyCalculusView →
- Adjacent faces on two diceEasyProbabilityView →
- All three land in the same halfEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- 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 →
- BALLOON arrangements bookended by vowelsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Bacteria doubling on a clockEasyBrainteasersView →
- Codes with exactly one vowelEasyCombinatoricsView →
- 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 →
- Drawing a matching pair of socksEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Even sum bigger than sevenEasyProbabilityView →
- First success on an even trialEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Hands directly oppositeEasyBrainteasersView →
- Landing in the ringEasyProbabilityView →
- Largest possible covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Length of a vector differenceEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Merging two round-robinsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Pairs who swap hatsEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Present value of a deferred growing perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Product divisible by fourEasyProbabilityView →
- Rank of a matrix productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Rate of change of a triangle's perimeterEasyCalculusView →
- Return speed for a target averageEasyBrainteasersView →
- Seating with a gapEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Second moment from varianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Second roll beats the firstEasyProbabilityView →
- Spread of a two-card sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- The first die beats the secondEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Two heads given an even countEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A family clustered at a round tableMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Clock hands overlapMediumBrainteasersView →
- Common divisors of the squaresMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Empirical rule between two scoresMediumStatisticsView →
- Four distinct birth monthsMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Frog in the wellMediumBrainteasersView →
- Length of a projectionMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Mean value theorem for x^2MediumCalculusView →
- Paths dodging a closed intersectionMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Pricing a coupon bond off the spot curveMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Smallest value of a quadratic formMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Squares on a chessboard, tilted ones includedMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Sum of multiples of 3 or 5MediumBrainteasersView →
- The missing dollarMediumBrainteasersView →
- The pile that always leaves oneMediumBrainteasersView →
- Three-jug measuringMediumBrainteasersView →
- Two face cardsMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Two reds in a row from a shrinking urnMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- When a biased estimator winsMediumRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
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