The Akuna Capital Math Test is a quick online test conducted by HackerRank. The test contains two separate sections – Calculations and Sequences.
In this guide, I’ll give you a full overview of the assessment, some inside tips on the nitty-gritty details, and sample questions.
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The Akuna Capital Math Test is an online assessment designed and administered by HackerRank. It is intended to quickly evaluate your mathematic abilities using two sections:
In both of these tests, you are not expected to answer all the questions. Answer as many as you can in the allowed time.
Note that according to the test rules, you are not allowed to use a calculator (obviously), but not even pen and paper. While this is a common practice in calculation tests, this limitation is quite unusual in number sequence tests.
Let’s cover each of the two sections of the test in a bit more detail, including some sample questions and tips.
The Calculations section of the Akuna Math Test contains 80 basic math questions covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. You need to solve as many of them in 8 minutes. This form of testing is often referred to as “80-in-8” and is used by a variety of trading firms such as Akuna, Maven, and Optiver.
In the Free Practice section, I reveal some of the tricks used in the Akuna Math Test to add extra challenge to the questions.
Unlike other versions of the 80-in-8 test, the Akuna Capital version does not cover fractions – one less thing to worry about!
In each of the 30 questions on the Sequences section, you will be presented with a sequence of numbers (and seldom, letters). You will need to find the next element in the sequence. Solve as many sequences as you can in 16 minutes.
In the Free Practice section, I provide a few tricky sequences adapted from the assessment – check out if you can solve them!
The main challenge of the Sequences test is that it does not allow the use of pen and paper. Therefore, you must practice the ability to mentally visualize the series of differences.
While both the Calculations and the Sequences tests are simple and straightforward, here are some little, important details:
You can check out a bit more details in the Test Interface section.
The test invitation will be sent to you via email and will include only the deadline and a test link.
You will have 30 days to complete the assessment.
The interface of the Akuna Capital Math Test is pretty easy to understand:
This free practice is divided into two parts:
Good luck!
0.88 + 4.56 = ?
2,250 x 400 = ?
0.04 x (50 ÷ 4) = ?
1, 4, 10, 20, 35, 56, 84, ?
1.333, 1.25, 1.2, 0.875, 0.8889
The correct answer is 0.9.
This sequence looks very weird, until you turn it into fractions:
As you can see, both the nominator and the denominator increase by 1 with each step.
18, 225, 22, 13, 45, 16, 8, 9, 10, ?
