For graduate, apprenticeship, school leaver and undergraduate applicants. PwC UK's online assessment is hosted on SHL: an untimed behavioural profile and a timed cognitive test covering numerical, abstract (inductive) and deductive reasoning. This site practises the cognitive test, the part you can actually prepare for, in the interactive style graduate candidates reported last cycle.
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Most practice sites hand you multiple choice. Here you drag charts, resize pies, colour shapes and connect nodes against the clock. PwC does not publish its question format, but graduate applicants in the 2025/26 cycle reported interactive SHL questions on The Student Room: calendars, charts, patterns and rankings, at about 90 seconds a question. That is the pace our tests run at. Try a few:
Drag each point to plot that region’s Q4 occupancy rate.
| Region | Rooms | Booked |
|---|---|---|
| North | 200 | 150 |
| South | 180 | 54 |
| East | 240 | 216 |
| West | 160 | 96 |
| Central | 300 | 210 |
All points placed. Drag to adjust, or use ↑/↓ when focused.
24 questions each, split across numerical, inductive and deductive reasoning, with a 36-minute timer and an instant score.
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