Schroders gives candidates a feedback report after each online stage in the US. The UK tests use Aon

Schroders' UK page names three Aon tests: a gamified situational judgement test, a deductive-logical thinking test and a personality questionnaire. Its US page describes a cognitive test of numerical, critical and diagrammatic reasoning. Our reasoning test covers numerical and verbal reasoning, and the CCAT practice test covers deduction.

Schroders does not publish question counts for the UK tests, and the US cognitive stage includes diagrammatic reasoning that our test does not. The gamified judgement test and the personality questionnaire cannot be rehearsed with tables and passages. Region decides the mix.

Schroders publishes separate graduate pages for its UK, US and Asia Pacific markets, and the online assessments differ among them. The UK page names Aon as the test provider and lists three tests. The US page lists three timed stages with a feedback report for each. The Singapore page describes a single test of about 40 minutes.

Before you prepare, find your page and your job description. Applications open around August or September each year, and the UK page says Schroders recruits on a rolling basis, so earlier applicants are assessed earlier.

Of the three UK tests, only the deductive-logical thinking test has a clear drill. Deductive logic gives you a set of rules or statements and asks what must be true. The skill is reasoning from what is given without importing outside assumptions.

Our verbal reasoning questions train the same discipline with passages, and the CCAT practice test adds deduction and number logic. Read verbal reasoning questions for the method of finding the deciding sentence.

The gamified situational judgement test turns workplace scenarios into game-like tasks. The personality questionnaire asks how you typically behave. Neither is something you can study for in the usual way, and trying to game them can backfire.

Prepare by resting and by reading about Schroders' work and culture so the scenarios make sense. Answer as you would act on a normal working day.

On the US page, stage one is a cognitive test of numerical, critical and diagrammatic reasoning that takes around 20 minutes. Stage two is a motivation and behavioural questionnaire of about 20 minutes. Stage three is workplace scenarios plus a recorded video answer, about 30 minutes. Stages one and two are untimed, and candidates receive a bespoke feedback report after each, usually within 24 hours.

That feedback is rare. Read each report before the next stage and think about how you would describe the same strengths in an interview. If you need adjustments for stage three, Schroders asks you to contact its early careers team as early as possible.

The Singapore and Asia Pacific page describes an online test of about 40 minutes that must be completed in one session, because responses cannot be saved and returned to. It suggests drafting free-text answers in a Word document first and pasting them in.

Schroders has also published a piece explaining why it removed the 2:1 requirement from its early careers recruitment policy. In the UK, final-year students and recent graduates can apply, and re-applying the following year is allowed if you are unsuccessful. For a wider view of how investment employers compare, see our guide to banking and finance assessments.