IMC Online Assessment practice

IMC tests candidates with 4 short browser games in one session. The games measure working memory, anticipation, cognitive control and attention. Practise the full format here, from start to end.

Full assessment Link Align Capture Engage

Adaptive

Align

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Game 2 of the 4 games. It measures attention. Find the correct arrow in a row of arrows. The other arrows point in the wrong direction. The rule changes frequently.

Focus

Whole gameThe complete game, with all its stages, as it runs in the session.Single ruleThe rule stays the same for the full drill. Only the other arrows interfere with your answer. Maximum 2 minutes. The drill is adaptive.ConflictIn each row the other arrows point against the correct answer. Maximum 2 minutes. The drill is adaptive.

Play Align

Play on a laptop or desktop computer with a keyboard. The system saves each single game result to your practice history. Your skill report comes from the full session.

Performance

Align

Practice runs of Align on its own. Full sessions are scored in your skill report.

Track your best scores and watch your accuracy climb across every session.

How to play Align

Controls: Left and right arrows

The left and right arrow keys. Press the arrow key for the direction of the correct arrow.

Rows of 5 arrows appear near a centre mark. Each row is blue or red. A blue row selects the middle arrow. A red row selects the outer arrows. The other arrows point in the wrong direction.

What it shows to firms

This game measures your attention when other information interferes. It records your accuracy on the correct arrow, and your cost when the rule changes.

How to approach it

The colour gives the rule. Blue selects the middle arrow, and red selects the outer arrows. Look at the colour of each row.
Keep your eyes on the centre mark. The flash markers are always correct, so move your attention to the position that they show.
Regular response times give a better score than a mixture of fast and slow responses. Keep a constant speed.

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Questions and answers

What is the IMC Online Assessment practice?

IMC Trading tests candidates with 4 short browser games in one session. The games measure working memory, anticipation, cognitive control and attention. This practice product is specifically designed to train those skills, with 4 games we designed ourselves: Link, Align, Capture and Engage. You can practise the full session from start to end.

How long does a full session take?

A full session takes 25 to 30 minutes without a break. Each game has a short practice round with feedback. Then the main round starts. The main round adapts to you and stops when the measurement is precise. Therefore the exact length is a little different for each person.

Why does the difficulty change?

The games are adaptive. Two correct answers increase the difficulty by one step, and one error decreases it by one step. Therefore the game finds the level where you are correct approximately 70 percent of the time. A difficult game is the correct behaviour of the assessment, not a failure.

Can I stop and continue later?

You can stop between games and continue at the next game. If you stop during a game, the system deletes that game and starts it again when you return. A break during a game makes the measurements incorrect. Use one quiet session, and a desktop or laptop computer with a keyboard.

How do I read my report?

The report puts the measurements for each game into 4 skill phases. Each phase shows your relative strength in that session. The games make a compromise between speed and accuracy. Therefore a low score in one phase and a high score in another phase is usual. The real assessment behaves in the same way.