Banking Graduate Assessment
Practise the data interpretation, work-based judgement and concise communication skills described in HSBC's student application process.
- Role family
- Banking, markets and commercial roles
- Last verified
- 12 August 2026
- Status
- Programme availability varies by market and business area
Published process vs practice
What to prepare for
Online assessment
HSBC describes an approximately 90-minute work-based assessment measuring cognitive and behavioural skills.
Assessment centre
Successful graduate applicants may progress to an assessment centre lasting around three hours.
Banking practice focus
Our questions use original customer, risk, profitability, email and data-table scenarios.
Free mock test
Try a HSBC-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
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Work through these independent banking scenarios. They are designed around publicly described skills and do not reproduce HSBC assessment questions.
Question 1 of 5.
| Product | Revenue (£m) | Costs (£m) |
|---|---|---|
| Payments | 84 | 52 |
| Trade finance | 66 | 39 |
| Lending | 110 | 79 |
Your preparation plan
Work through the plan, one step at a time
Applicants to HSBC banking, markets, commercial banking and wealth graduate programmes. Each step matches a format in HSBC’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
The immersive assessment embeds chart and table questions throughout its work scenarios — start with the core timed practice for them.
Start step 1 → Numerical Reasoning — Full Practice Test 1Finish the test and this step is ticked off automatically.
Verbal Reasoning — Full Practice Test 1
PROTrue / False / Cannot Say comprehension under time pressure
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Situational Judgement — Full Bank 1
PROWorkplace scenarios rated on an effectiveness scale
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Workplace Aptitude Profile — 20 Questions
PROWork-preference statements with employer-alignment feedback
Unlocks after step 3
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