What are the EY Assessment Types?

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If you want to pass through the entire hiring process of Ernst & Young (EY), you will need more than just an impressive resume with the skills to boot and sharpened interview skills.

As one of the largest and most trusted professional services companies in the world employing thousands of employees ranging from auditors to consultants, it has to uphold a certain standard to uphold its reputation.

Apart from the stringent requirements for any available job position, each applicant will have to take the EY online assessment test as one of the first steps in the hiring process.

Unfortunately, you will not be given a single exam of theirs and call it a day.

Instead, you will have to go through a number of them in order to prove that your work-related skills qualify for that of an EY employee.

So, let’s take a look at them.

The EY Numerical Reasoning Test

Considering that it employs people who do taxes, audits, financial advice, and many others, it is extremely important that the people they hire have good, if not extremely sharp, numerical reasoning skills.

This won’t be as simple as solving formulas or equations, however.

The numerical reasoning test, compared to ones used in other pre-employment tests, predominantly uses word problems that are accompanied by graphs, charts, and tables.

This means that there will be an emphasis on finding the ratio, percentages, profits, rates, and many other topics that are related to business and finances.

The timed nature of this exam dashes the dreams of many applicants with how complex the calculations can be per question because there is barely enough time to answer everything on top of having to analyze the data graphs carefully.

The EY Job Simulation Assessment

Apart from confirming that you have the numerical reasoning skills needed for the job, EY will also want to know if you have the skills that are needed to succeed in the company and as a professional in the long run.

One of these skills is your problem-solving skills, especially when social interactions and conflict management are concerned.

As an employee of EY, you will encounter various problems and situations with numerous individuals, co-worker or not, from different backgrounds.

In order for you to be seen as a desirable candidate to hire for the job, you must excel in the job simulation test of the EY assessments.

Commonly known as the EY situational judgement test, you will be provided a passage containing a conflict that you must resolve by selecting the best course of action to take.

Other questions, however, will instead ask you to select which choice is the WORST one to take, which can cause you to lose points if you didn’t read the question carefully and thought that you should only select the one that sounded kind or accommodating.

The EY Diagrammatic Reasoning Test

This test aims to measure your non-verbal problem-solving skills.

Due to the fact that not everyone is a native English speaker, and even less of them have a perfect grasp on the English Standard, EY provides applicants a chance to show that they know how to solve problems or think outside of the box with this exam.

How? Well, it’s because the questions will come in the form of a set of shapes that contain a sequence or pattern that the test-taker will have to analyze carefully so that they can select which of the choices completes the missing one.

Practicing on puzzle books or online equivalents will allow you to prepare for this since you have to have good pattern or sequence-finding skills.

The EY Verbal Reasoning Skills Test

If you’re someone that’s applying for a job at EY and have the qualifications needed to have your resume accepted, then the company already knows that you at least have the reading comprehension skills needed to read workplace documents.

On the other hand, they cannot be sure if you are someone that can UNDERSTAND the contents of those documents or if you can read between the lines if necessary.

To see if you have this skill, you will be presented either with a paragraph or a set of statements that is then followed by a conclusion.

You will then have to determine if this conclusion is true, false, or uncertain.

Some may look simple, but there will be difficult questions with lots of complexities, meaning you just can’t answer carelessly after reading through the supplied premise once.