Know what the Deloitte assessment asks before you open the link

Deloitte says the cognitive half of its early careers assessment covers numerical and verbal reasoning. Our reasoning test is 25 numerical questions from business tables followed by 25 verbal True, False or Cannot say questions, so it trains the same two skills.

Deloitte's assessment also has a behavioural half, which no practice test can rehearse. Our test runs a single 45-minute clock, while candidates report separate, shorter timings for each Deloitte section. We cannot know Deloitte's question style, so expect different layouts.

Deloitte's own early careers page describes an assessment in two parts. The behavioural part gives you workplace scenarios and asks you to rank what you would do. The cognitive part is numerical and verbal reasoning. They are scored for different things and they need different preparation.

For the behavioural half, there is little to rehearse beyond reading about the firm and keeping your answers consistent with how you actually work. The cognitive half is where practice pays, because it is a skill you can improve. That is why a page like this one spends its time on reasoning.

Deloitte says there is no overall time limit and recommends finishing in one sitting to stay focused. Read that carefully. It describes the assessment as a whole. It does not say that every individual question or test is untimed.

Candidates and prep sites report timed reasoning sections. One 2026 guide puts numerical at about 25 minutes and verbal at about 20; another puts the verbal test between 20 and 30 minutes. An older Deloitte case study describes online reasoning tests taking about 70 minutes in total, on a different provider, before the current format. These do not agree, so we will not give you one number. The safe plan is to practise on a clock and find out what yours is when the platform loads.

Block out enough time to sit the whole thing without breaks anyway. Deloitte's advice points the same way.

Deloitte's integrity guidance says online assessments, including the Immersive Online Assessment, must be completed independently and without AI assistance. If you have been using a chatbot to explain practice answers, keep doing that, because it is a good way to learn. Just make sure your last few practice sessions are unaided, so you know what you can do on your own.

A free timed test is a fair rehearsal for that. It shows you how you read tables and passages when nobody is helping.

Candidates describe a passage followed by statements to mark True, False or Cannot say. The skill is to answer from the passage only. A statement can be true in real life and still be Cannot say if the passage never supports it.

Read the statement first, find the sentence that settles it, then decide. If you are weighing probabilities, you have left the passage. Our verbal reasoning questions show the method on worked examples, and the second half of the practice test above is 25 passages in that style.

Deloitte names numerical reasoning, and candidate reports describe tables, charts and graphs with percentages, ratios and averages. That matches the first 25 questions of the practice test above, which are all business tables.

The most common loss is reading the wrong cell, not doing the wrong sum. Say what the question wants in a sentence before you look for the numbers. Then check the units on the column headings, because thousands against millions turns a correct method into a wrong answer. The numerical reasoning questions page has worked examples with the method.

You usually have several days to complete the assessment from the invitation, but check yours. Take the practice test above on day one to find out whether numerical or verbal costs you more. Spend the middle days on that half only. On day five, take the full test again unaided, and keep the last evening free.

Then read the invitation email once more. It is the only source that tells you which tests you are actually sitting, in what order and by when.

These come from anonymous reviews, university careers pages and prep guides. They often disagree, and Deloitte has not confirmed them. Read them as leads, not rules.

• One 2026 prep guide describes an Immersive Online Assessment with about 25 minutes of numerical reasoning and about 20 minutes of verbal reasoning.
• One guide says the tests are built by Cappfinity and that the numerical test may look different from standard numerical tests. We could not confirm this from Deloitte.
• An older Deloitte case study describes online reasoning tests of about 70 minutes on a different provider. It predates the current format.
• An older TargetJobs article describes five critical-reasoning subtests, such as inference and evaluation of arguments. That may apply to other Deloitte processes or earlier years.