Chicago Trading Company Psychometric Tests Prep

• Core-skills practice. Numerical, verbal and logical reasoning at graduate level: the skills under Chicago Trading Company's test, without pretending to be its interface.
• Provider-true difficulty. Item difficulty mirrors the band the real tests sit at, so your score means something.
• Coaching, not just a score. "You are spending too long on table-data questions" beats "you scored 68%". Specific advice per weak section.
• Percentile benchmarking. Your score placed on a modelled UK graduate norm curve, so you know if 70% is excellent or worrying for that test.

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1. 1

   Severe time misallocation

   Spending excessive seconds on difficult multi-step word problems at the expense of easy questions later in the test.

2. 2

   Failure to guess

   Leaving multiple-choice options blank despite the absence of negative marking.

3. 3

   Arithmetic hesitation

   Relying on scratchpaper for basic multiplications that should be executed mentally.

4. 4

   Platform unfamiliarity

   Wasting initial test moments deciphering interface controls or navigation buttons.

5. 5

   Overcomplicating patterns

   Searching for advanced mathematical formulas in visual reasoning tasks that rely on simple counting rules.

6. 6

   Context-switching fatigue

   Experiencing mental friction when bouncing rapidly between arithmetic, spatial rotations, and verbal items.

• Interface fluency

  Practising on browser-based simulators to build muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts and mouse placement.

• Rigorous time-budgeting

  Establishing strict internal per-question time limits and abandoning stalled items immediately.

• Elimination mastery

  Systematically crossing out implausible numerical boundaries before computing final values.

• Calibration pre-runs

  Completing diagnostic benchmark tests immediately prior to the real assessment to warm up cognitive processing speed.

• Zero-blank discipline

  Ensuring every single question contains an active selection before the final timer expires.

• Time investment

  Successful candidates frequently report putting in 15 to 30 hours of structured, timed practice prior to taking proprietary online assessments.

• Official resources

  Candidates should fully utilize any sample materials or practice tests provided directly by Chicago Trading Company via their candidate portal upon invitation.

1. 01Set your own clock per question. Divide section time by question count. Move on when you hit your per-question budget, even if you are mid-thought.
2. 02Read the question before the chart. Half the work in numerical is finding the right number in a table. Knowing what you are looking for cuts the time in half.
3. 03Use "Cannot Say" generously. Verbal reasoning rewards strict reading. If the passage does not say it, the answer is "Cannot Say", not your own inference.
4. 04Skip the impossible ones. Most tests do not penalise wrong answers more than skips. If you cannot see it in 20 seconds, flag and move on.
5. 05Practise the exact format, not a generic stand-in. a multi-section reasoning test has its own rhythm, and a generic reasoning test is not the same. Intervyo's simulation is calibrated to this format, so you rehearse the real thing under real timing rather than a generic aptitude set.