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IMC online assessment 2027

Provider: Saville Assessment

Providers change between cycles and firms rarely publish their tests, so everything here is what candidates report and what the provider documents, in that order of trust. Treat it as where to start, not a promise.

29 IMC Trading openings live on the tracker

Practise the format, free

The drills here that train what IMC sends, in the order to play them. Every one is free, and the ranked ones put you on a board against people applying to the same places.

Play without an account. Create a free one to save scores, see your weak spots and get on the leaderboard.

What the test is like

IMC numerical and diagrammatic

Built by Saville Assessment

Format
Saville aptitude subtests. Numerical reasoning from tables and charts, plus diagrammatic reasoning where a panel tells you what each operator does and you work out either the missing operator or the output.
Timing
Saville subtests run 6 to 15 minutes each. A combined numerical and diagrammatic sitting is commonly reported at about 40 minutes. The Swift Analysis version is 18 minutes split evenly across verbal, numerical and diagrammatic.
What is uncertain
Prep providers note the battery changes by region and year, so the version you sit may match none of these numbers. We could not verify whether IMC's configuration is adaptive, and no negative marking is published.
How to practise
Operators runs the diagrammatic half. Mental Maths covers the arithmetic underneath the numerical section.
Operators

IMC NeurOlympics

Built by BrainsFirst

Format
A set of neuroscience based games sat alongside the aptitude tests. BrainsFirst describes four games measuring how you process information, learn and focus, and names IMC as a client on its own site.
Timing
About 45 minutes in total, each game running roughly 10 to 15 minutes depending on how you play. Scored as a cognitive profile, so there is no pass mark and no negative marking.
What is uncertain
BrainsFirst does not publish the mechanics and asks candidates not to. We are not reconstructing them from forum posts, so this entry stays deliberately thin.
How to practise
The cognitive games here build the same underlying skills. Chimp Test is the warm up.
Chimp Test

What students report this cycle

No debriefs about IMC's test yet this cycle. Students who track an application here can say what they sat afterwards; once a firm has three, the counts show here.

Other firms

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