Practise a Cappfinity-style Situational Strengths Test: rank five actions for 16 untimed workplace scenarios and see a strengths profile from our own model.
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The Situational Strengths Test (SST) is the behavioural ranking task in Cappfinity assessments. You read a short workplace scenario and put the possible responses in order, from the action you would most likely take to the one you would least likely take. Cappfinity’s Preparation Hub, Deloitte, HSBC and Shoosmiths describe this task, and Aviva and M&G use the name “situational strengths”. The same behavioural family can also ask you to choose the single most appropriate response, place yourself on a scale, sort responses into groups, write an answer or record a video.
Cappfinity looks at strengths through Performance (how well you do something), Energy (how much it energises you) and Use (how often you do it), and advises candidates to answer honestly instead of guessing what the employer wants. It publishes no answer key. Its G-Cloud listing mentions pass, consider and fail data, which suggests employers can sort results into bands, but how each response is weighted is not public, and real scenarios are often set in the employer’s own workplace.
Candidate Falcon’s practice uses 30 original scenarios set in a UK graduate’s first months at work: team work, clients, deadlines, mistakes, feedback, change, ethics, learning and workload. Each action maps to one or two of eight strengths in our own model (Collaboration, Initiative, Adaptability, Integrity, Client focus, Organisation, Learning and Resilience), and your result shows which strengths your rankings favoured. It helps you get used to the format and reflect on how you work; it does not predict a Cappfinity outcome.
It is a behavioural module in Cappfinity assessments. You read a workplace scenario and rank the possible responses from the action you would most likely take to the least likely. Aviva and M&G call it a situational strengths test, and Cappfinity’s Preparation Hub, Deloitte, HSBC and Shoosmiths describe the same ranking task.
Cappfinity’s Preparation Hub and the Deloitte and HSBC hubs say behavioural modules are untimed, apart from written and video answers. Some prep sites claim that response speed is recorded; no official source confirms it. Candidate Falcon’s practice has no timer.
Cappfinity does not publish a count, and it may vary by employer. Prep-site samples show five options per scenario, JobTestPrep reports 16 scenarios in the version it attributes to EY, and one Deloitte candidate reported 22 in 2016. Candidate Falcon’s practice uses 16 scenarios with five actions each.
Cappfinity publishes no answer key and asks candidates to answer honestly rather than second-guess the employer, and the FCA says its practice assessment has no right or wrong answers. Cappfinity’s G-Cloud listing mentions pass, consider and fail data, so employers can probably sort results into bands, but how responses are weighted is not public.
With its own model, not Cappfinity’s. Each action maps to one or two of eight strengths. Ranking an action 1st gives its strengths 5 points, down to 1 point for 5th, and each strength’s total is divided by the number of times it was on offer. The result is a strengths profile, never a pass or fail.
Many candidates call it the Cappfinity situational judgement test, and both use workplace scenarios. Official descriptions of the Cappfinity task ask you to rank responses by how likely you are to take them, and frame the results as strengths. The same behavioural family can also ask you to choose the single most appropriate response.
Independent practice by Candidate Falcon, based on Cappfinity’s public descriptions and prep-site reports. Not affiliated with Cappfinity, and not its scoring. The questions and scenarios are original, and practice results are not Cappfinity scores. For the stages each employer describes, timing and results, read the free Cappfinity assessment guide.