Nomura online assessment
Built by Aon
- Format
- Aon (cut-e) tests sent after the application for EMEA and Asia Pacific programmes, spring weeks included. A numerical reasoning test where you judge statements against a set of data tabs as true, false or cannot say, a logical reasoning test, and for some programmes the motionChallenge: a six minute sliding puzzle that measures planning. A recorded video interview follows for those who pass. Applicants in the Americas skip the online tests and go straight to interviews.
- Timing
- The numerical test is most consistently reported at 37 items in 12 minutes across six data tabs, and the logical test at 12 items in 12 minutes. The motionChallenge is six minutes for as many puzzles as you can, scored on puzzles solved and the moves each one took; students who sat it in the 2026/27 cycle describe no reset button, no easy levels and boards of three or four blocks that still need about a dozen moves. Aon's invitation typically gives about five days to complete the set.
- What is uncertain
- Nomura publishes none of the counts or clocks; they come from prep sites and candidate reports. Which tests you get depends on the programme, region and year: prep sites describe the motionChallenge as sent to some candidates, and students applying in the 2026/27 spring week cycle reported sitting it. The 12 in 12 figure may describe the deductive test rather than the inductive one, and nobody publishes a marking scheme for any of the three.
- How to practise
- Motion is built on the motionChallenge format and Data Statements on the numerical test. Verbal Statements covers Aon's scales verbal, which some candidates report alongside the numerical test. Switch covers Aon's deductive test and Inductive Reasoning its inductive one.