Bank of England situational judgement tests

Practise for a situational judgement test at the Bank of England. Workplace scenarios with the preferred response explained, and score reports.

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Question 217:24

Which response is the most effective?

An error in a report

You are checking a sales report that goes to a client at 5 pm. A colleague's section uses last year's prices. Your colleague is at the next desk.

  • AQuietly correct the prices yourself.
  • BTell your colleague now.
  • CSend it as it is. It is not your work.
  • DReport it to your manager instead.

Which response is the least effective?

A late order

A customer phones about an order that is a week late. It left the warehouse yesterday and is due in two days. It is their second late order this month.

  • ABlame the warehouse, give no date.
  • BGive the date and end the call.
  • CApologise and give the date.
  • DPass the complaint to your manager.

Which response is the most effective?

Two deadlines

Your manager wants a presentation by noon tomorrow. The finance director wants her figures by 10 am. You cannot do both, and your manager is on a flight.

  • ADo the figures: she is more senior.
  • BSend old figures and say nothing.
  • CWork late on both and tell nobody.
  • DAsk the director what can move.
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What to expect from a situational judgement test at the Bank of England

What we know about the tests, which format this one can take and how to practise for it.

Does the Bank of England use situational judgement tests?

We do not have a list of the tests the Bank of England sets. Employers use situational judgement tests most for graduate schemes and for jobs with a lot of contact with customers or colleagues.

What the Bank of England hiring process does have is a stage of online tests: it is stage 2 of 4. The email that invites you to it names each test, so read it before you choose what to practise. All four stages are on our page about the Bank of England.

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Which situational judgement test format will the Bank of England use?

Situational judgement tests are written for one employer at a time, around the behaviours it wants in the role. So we cannot list a standard format for the Bank of England. What differs from one test to the next is how you answer, and the list shows the four ways.

Ours are written out as text, with no video. The first two formats in the list come up most, and a few scenarios ask you to rate or rank every response.

Best response
Choose one
You pick the single most effective response out of four or five.
Best and worst
Choose two
You mark the most effective response and the least effective one.
Ranking
Order them all
You put every response in order. Cappfinity's Situational Strengths Test has you rank them from most to least likely.
Rating
Judge each one
You rate every response on its own. The Civil Service Judgement Test uses four steps, from counterproductive to effective.

Every employer's test is its own, so the number of scenarios and the time allowed are in your invitation. Cappfinity and the Civil Service are not connected with this site.

How do you practise for a situational judgement test at the Bank of England?

Read the job description and any values the Bank of England publishes before you practise. A test like this is written around the behaviours the employer wants, so they tell you what a good response looks like.

Start with Situational Judgement Test 1: it is free and needs no account. Then take the four tests in the package. Most real tests of this kind have no time limit, so you can switch the timer off. After each one, read the explanation of every scenario, the ones you got right included.

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