Standard Chartered Skills Insight Assessment
Built by SHL
- Format
- Two parts in one sitting. First an untimed behavioural section where you pick the behavioural skills that best describe how you work. Then a timed reasoning section built from three SHL tests: deductive reasoning (scheduling and logic puzzles), inductive reasoning (figure sequences and patterns) and numerical reasoning (calculations from tables and charts), in the interactive format where answers are dragged and set rather than picked from a list. Technology applicants then get a two-problem Coding Simulation in a browser IDE, and everyone who passes records the Workplace Scenarios video interview: four workplace scenarios, one question each, one minute to prepare and two to answer.
- Timing
- Standard Chartered's early careers FAQ publishes the clock: the behavioural section is untimed and takes 15 to 20 minutes, the reasoning section is exactly 36 minutes and cannot be paused, and the whole thing wants about an hour. The Coding Simulation runs 45 to 85 minutes depending on the role. The reasoning score is compared with a level set in advance and you progress if you meet it; the behavioural section produces a feedback report sent to everyone, pass or fail. Invitations give a few days to complete it.
- What is uncertain
- Until the 2026 intake Standard Chartered sent the twelve pymetrics games and a Valued Behaviours Assessment, and most prep sites, and an older page of the bank's own, still describe that process. The bank's current apply page and FAQ name the Skills Insight Assessment as the first stage and SHL as its provider, so expect SHL. The FAQ warns of minor variations by market and programme, and the question count in the 36 minutes is not published. The interactive answer format cannot be reproduced here without copying SHL's interface, so the drills use the multiple choice form of the same questions.
- How to practise
- Numerical Reasoning, Figure Series and Logical Statements cover the three reasoning tests, and SHL's own free practice tests (the Behaviour-Based Assessment and the General Ability Test, Mobile-Enabled, Interactive) are the ones the FAQ points at. Situational Strengths is the nearest thing to the behavioural section, and Firm Prep covers the Workplace Scenarios questions.