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, 44 of them free to practise right now. 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 →
- Seating with a gapEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Second moment from varianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Second roll beats the firstEasyProbabilityView →
- Spread of a two-card sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Clock hands overlapMediumBrainteasersView →
- Length of a projectionMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Smallest value of a quadratic formMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Sum of multiples of 3 or 5MediumBrainteasersView →
- Three-jug measuringMediumBrainteasersView →
- Return speed for a target averageEasyBrainteasers Premium
- The first die beats the secondEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Two heads given an even countEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- A family clustered at a round tableMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Common divisors of the squaresMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Empirical rule between two scoresMediumStatistics Premium
- Four distinct birth monthsMediumProbabilityCombinatorics Premium
- Frog in the wellMediumBrainteasers Premium
- Mean value theorem for x^2MediumCalculus Premium
- Paths dodging a closed intersectionMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Pricing a coupon bond off the spot curveMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Squares on a chessboardMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasers Premium
- The missing dollarMediumBrainteasers Premium
- The pile that always leaves oneMediumBrainteasers Premium
- Two face cardsMediumProbabilityCombinatorics Premium
- Two reds in a row from a shrinking urnMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- When a biased estimator winsMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
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