Graduate Software Engineering Assessment
Practise for Aurora Energy Research's numerical assessments, first-round interviews and assessment centre with original power-market questions on MWh, £/MWh capture prices, batteries and quantitative problem solving.
- Role family
- Software Engineering
- Last verified
- 25 October 2026
- Status
- Open — closes 29 November 2026, 11:59pm UK time
Published process vs practice
What to prepare for
Online application
Apply on Aurora's careers site with a CV (PDF or DOCX) and an optional personal summary.
Numerical assessments
Aurora's posting lists numerical assessments as part of the process, considered alongside a CV review. It does not publish a provider, format or timing.
First-round interviews
Aurora says successful candidates are invited to first-round interviews.
Assessment centre
Final interviews, virtual or in person. Aurora's employer-written Gradcracker hub says software engineers get a conversation-style interview with a few quantitative problem-solving questions.
Energy-market practice focus
Our original sample trains capacity-factor and capture-price arithmetic, battery arbitrage, run-time scaling and judgement about surprising model outputs.
Free mock test
Try a Aurora Energy Research-style mock test
5 original questions built around this programme’s published assessment mix, with a worked explanation for every answer. 10 minutes, no sign-up.
Questions
Question 1 of 5 · 0 answered
This is independent practice, not a reproduction of Aurora Energy Research questions or any provider's test. Use the power-market figures given and review the working after submission.
Question 1 of 5.
| Wind farm capacity: | 50 MW |
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| Capacity factor: | 35% |
| Period: | 24 hours |
Your preparation plan
Work through the plan, one step at a time
Graduates applying to Aurora Energy Research's Graduate Software Engineering Programme in Oxford. Each step matches a format in Aurora Energy Research’s published process to a full AceJobTest practice test. Finish a step and the next one opens — your progress is saved to your account, so you can stop on one device and carry on from another. Pro tests unlock with the 90-Day Pass or a Pro subscription.
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Numerical Reasoning — Full Practice Test 1
PROTimed data interpretation: tables, charts, percentages and ratios
Aurora's posting names numerical assessments as a screening stage — start with timed tables, rates and percentages.
Start step 1 → Numerical Reasoning — Full Practice Test 1Finish the test and this step is ticked off automatically.
Logical Reasoning — Free Sample
FREESequences, patterns and rule detection
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Watson Glaser — Full Practice Test 1
PROInference, assumptions, deduction, interpretation and arguments
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Sources and independence
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