Graduate Management Training Scheme Assessment
Practise for the NHS GMTS Future Potential Assessment, video-based Alignment Assessment and Virtual Assessment Centre with original healthcare operations data, finance and patient-centred judgement questions.
- Role family
- Public sector healthcare management
- Last verified
- 25 October 2026
- Status
- 2027 entry open; closes 28 October 2026 at 11:30am
Published process vs practice
What to prepare for
Registration and application
The NHS GMTS apply page describes online registration followed by an application form.
Stage 1 – Future Potential Assessment
The scheme says this online stage takes about 45 minutes but is not time-limited, offers practice of each question type first and gives every candidate a feedback report. Question types are not named.
Stage 2 – Alignment Assessment
About 60 minutes including video responses. Only the video questions are timed, and the scheme says they are reviewed manually, without AI.
Virtual Assessment Centre
Runs January–February 2027. Offers follow for candidates who pass and are matched to a placement.
Healthcare practice focus
Our sample trains waiting-list and bed-occupancy data, budget variance and values-based decisions in patient-facing situations.
Free mock test
Try a NHS England-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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This is independent practice, not a reproduction of NHS GMTS questions. The trust data and scenarios are invented to train the operational, financial and values-based reasoning a management trainee uses.
Question 1 of 5.
| New referrals added: | 2,100 |
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| Patients seen or removed: | 2,520 |
Your preparation plan
Work through the plan, one step at a time
Graduates with at least a 2:2 in any subject applying to the General Management, HR, Finance, Health Informatics or Engineering & Estates pathways. Each step matches a format in NHS England’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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Civil Service Judgement — Full Practice Test 1
PROPublic-service scenarios rated on an effectiveness scale
Public-service judgement sits at the heart of the GMTS. Start with scenarios rated on how well they serve the public and colleagues.
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Situational Judgement — Full Bank 1
PROWorkplace scenarios rated on an effectiveness scale
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Numerical Reasoning — Full Practice Test 1
PROTimed data interpretation: tables, charts, percentages and ratios
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Workplace Aptitude Profile — 20 Questions
PROWork-preference statements with employer-alignment feedback
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