Plan your graduate preparation and understand what changes for experienced roles.
By the Game Assessment Prep research teamUpdated September 14, 2026How we research
There is no verified current Zopa game list. The historical evidence below supports an optional preparation category, not a claim about the modules in the 2027 invitation.
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The archived 2025-entry advert names these abilities. Practice the numerical part on our Aon Numerical Reasoning test. The older advert's shorter assessment time is superseded by the current posting.
Source: Zopa — archived 2025-entry Graduate Analyst advert
Explore Numerical reasoning and critical thinking — historical formatToday's employer is Zopa Bank. Its careers site dates the bank's launch to June 2020 and describes a digital banking business covering savings, borrowing and money-management products. Older accounts of the peer-to-peer business should not automatically define today's candidate experience.
The most useful preparation combines analytical clarity with a customer perspective. Practice turning a calculation into an explanation of what a decision means, what remains uncertain and what you would investigate next. Experienced candidates should also make the depth and relevance of their own work easy to assess.
The named Aon process belongs to this graduate intake.
The current London Java/Kotlin vacancy emphasizes resilient distributed services, production ownership, test-driven development and collaboration with product, design and data colleagues.
A closed advert for 2025 entry explicitly described numerical reasoning and critical thinking. That is useful historical format evidence, but its timing and video instructions should not replace the newer graduate advert.
Source: Zopa — archived 2025-entry Graduate Analyst advert on Bright Network
Tests: approximately 45 minutes total, due within one week after applying. Video: up to 45 minutes, due within one week of invitation.
The current advert does not name individual modules, game titles, question counts or pass thresholds. Identifying the supplier is not enough to claim that Zopa uses a particular product from Aon's catalogue.
Source: Zopa — 2027 Graduate Analyst vacancy reviewed September 2026
Zopa's engineering advert prohibits AI use in behavioral and competency interviews. Technical-stage rules depend on the role and are communicated by the Talent Partner; when permitted, reasoning and tool decisions matter alongside the output.
Source: Zopa — Java/Kotlin Software Engineer, interview policy
The job-applicant privacy notice describes references, identity and right-to-work verification, and other background information. It states an offer-to-first-day scope. These checks should not be confused with the graduate reasoning assessment or treated as another game stage.
Source: Zopa — Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, updated February 2025
Aon explains that employers choose assessment combinations to suit a role. Its guidance distinguishes introductory explanations and examples from the actual tests and provides familiarization resources for several assessment categories.
The 2027 advert sets out the following progression.
The engineering advert provides preparation priorities rather than a universal stage order.
The current graduate calendar differs from archived adverts. Keep application closing, assessment expiry and employment start dates separate.
| Cycle | Application dates | Likely assessment window | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applications for 2027 entry | 9am UK time, Sunday October 25 | November case days; later stages into January | Estimate / inference The weekday/date sequence indicates 2026 applications. Starts are February or September 2027. Confirm the year and your appointment in the live advert and invitation. Source: Zopa — 2027 Graduate Analyst vacancy; application year inferred from calendar |
| Experienced opportunities | Vacancy-specific | Arranged for the selected role | Estimate / inference A graduate campaign calendar does not establish the timetable for engineering or other experienced positions. Plan around the vacancy and the schedule communicated for your application. |
Use practice to improve reasoning you can explain without assistance. A useful answer makes the problem, assumptions, analysis and recommendation visible to the listener.
Create a short practice exercise using fictional customer or product data. Calculate a rate or percentage change, check the denominator and explain whether the comparison is fair. Then give a concise recommendation and name one missing variable that might reverse it. This is original preparation, not a claimed Zopa case.
Choose a Zopa product category described on the careers site. Explain the customer problem it solves and a tradeoff between simplicity, access, reliability and commercial performance. Prepare a question about how a team would measure success. Product context should support your reasoning rather than become a recital of marketing language.
Ask someone to challenge the assumptions in a practice analysis. Summarize the objective before calculating, explain what evidence would distinguish competing explanations, and update your view when new information arrives. End with a recommendation, its limitation and a next step. The aim is clear thinking under discussion, not memorizing an answer.
Select one example where you took responsibility for a problem and another where a colleague changed your thinking. State what you personally did and what improved. Zopa's careers page emphasizes accountability and collaboration; use concrete actions to make your fit assessable.
Aon recommends a stable connection and suitable browser, with a computer generally preferred. Read the instructions for allowed materials and use its examples to understand the controls. For recorded answers, check your microphone and camera and practice speaking from a short outline without reading a script.
Aon, as named in the 2027 Graduate Analyst advert.
The graduate advert names Aon for that stage.
No exact current game titles are established. Start with the instructions in your invitation and match familiarization to the modules it names.
This guide concerns current Zopa Bank hiring. Zopa's careers site dates the bank's launch to June 2020; older business-era reports need separate context.
Do not assume so. Use the experienced vacancy and the interview plan supplied for that role.
Practice structuring an unfamiliar problem, checking calculations, explaining assumptions and defending a recommendation while remaining open to new evidence.
The sources below support this guide. Claim labels distinguish official information, candidate reports, and research inferences.
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9,200+ candidates from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale and 100+ universities have run 101,000+ practice sessions here · Aon (smartPredict) practice scores typically rise 30% by the fifth attempt· 81% of 14,000+ game ratings say “Great”.
