Standard Chartered replaced several tests with one. Here is what its Skills Insight Assessment asks of you

Standard Chartered says its Skills Insight Assessment opens the process and, in one version, pairs a timed reasoning section of about 36 minutes with a behavioural section. Our reasoning test trains the numerical and verbal skills that kind of section draws on.

Standard Chartered does not say which reasoning skills the timed section covers on the pages we read, and an older graduate page names a Gallup talent assessment and an SHL numerical reasoning test. Which version applies depends on programme and year. The behavioural section, the video scenarios and the coding simulation cannot be rehearsed with our test.

Standard Chartered says that after you submit your application you are invited to take the Skills Insight Assessment, and that it is the first stage of its process. You have 14 days from the invitation. That is a long window for a short test, and the temptation is to leave it. Resist that and schedule it for a day when you are rested.

One version is described as a timed reasoning section lasting about 36 minutes plus a behavioural section. Standard Chartered does not spell out the reasoning content on the pages we read, so the preparation is a general reasoning workout rather than a particular question type.

The bank is more open than most about scoring. It says the score is compared with a score set in advance by human decision-makers, and if you meet or exceed that level, you progress. That makes it a threshold, not a league table against other candidates that week.

You also receive a personalised report once you have completed your assessments, whatever the outcome, and it is yours to keep. Read it carefully. Even if you do not progress, it is a rare piece of feedback on how you came across.

Thirty-six minutes for a reasoning section is short. Practice sittings that last 45 minutes are therefore a useful overload: if you can work comfortably through the free reasoning test above, a shorter live section should feel manageable. Practice questions are also offered before the real one.

Use the first run to find your weaker half, numerical or verbal, then use the how to pass reasoning tests plan. Standard Chartered says practising for the behavioural section is not necessary, because there are no right or wrong answers.

Workplace Scenarios present four situations you might meet at the bank, each with one question, delivered by video. Answer as you would genuinely act. The Coding Simulation applies to some technical roles, is timed and scored automatically, and can use AI-based proctoring to flag possible violations. One page says it is for successful candidates in India only.

For the coding test, practise on the platform the bank names rather than on general puzzle sites. For the scenarios, read the bank's values beforehand and think about trade-offs between customers, colleagues and risk.

Standard Chartered's site carries pages from different years. One graduate page says the bank uses two assessments, a Gallup talent assessment and an SHL numerical reasoning test. Others describe the Skills Insight Assessment as replacing older tools. Hiring regions also differ.

Take the invitation email as the arbiter. It names the assessment, the deadline and the practice material. If it names the Skills Insight Assessment, ignore the older numerical-only description; if it names an SHL test, prepare for numerical reasoning with tables.