Which online assessments are completed (and so are worthwhile practicing) for the Assurance Audit grad program?

Hi, and thanks for your question! There are a few different online assessments that take place - I’ll try and give an overview of what you might expect to see:

First, you’ll generally see questions which are looking to learn more about your attitude and values. You might be given a scenario which could occur in your role, and then asked to rank responses based on which was most to least likely or give a brief text response. I don’t think you can really revise for these questions - you just need to be yourself as ultimately it’s your attitude and soft skills which are being examined.

You’ll likely also be given some information and asked questions based on how you interpret it. This could be quantitative data (e.g. numbers, graphs, etc) or qualitative data (e.g. newspaper articles). For example, you might be given a lot of information about a company and asked to draw conclusions on where their strengths and weaknesses lie, or asked to interpret the data to conclude on what impact a change in costs would have on profits. These are fairly straightforward, but you can’t really revise as they can ask anything based on the data provided. Just read what the question is asking you, take your time and you should be fine.

If you progress you might also be given some video interview questions - these are similar to the questions you’d be asked in a real interview. You might also be given a scenario, given a couple of minutes to look over it, and then asked for a response. Again, normal interview techniques should be fine - just remember to use examples to help you answer the questions.

After this, you may progress to an assessment centre - in my experience, this was a group task and an individual task similar to what came before.

Overall, I would say most of the stages either look to understand who you are as a person and as a professional, or else look to test you on how you can interpret information and use it to solve problems. I don’t think there’s a lot to revise other than perhaps how you would answer interview questions. You certainly don’t need to revise how to do an audit - instead, think about why you want to work in audit at EY and what you could contribute to the firm.

I hope this helps - happy to answer any follow ups!