Actuarial interview question generator

What this tool does

It draws one question at a time from a bank of 57, filtered by the kind of question and by the practice area you are applying to. Each question arrives with a countdown and a box to draft an answer in. Nothing is shown about what a good answer contains until you say you have answered, which is the point: the checklist is easy to agree with and hard to meet, and reading it first turns the exercise into a reading exercise.

The other mode strings 5 questions into a timed set that runs in the order an interview tends to open in: motivational, competency, technical, commercial, strengths. You do not see the guidance until the end, because that is when you get it in real life. Switching between kinds under time is the part people are worst at, and it is the part a list of questions cannot rehearse.

How it works

Everything runs in your browser. The questions are already in the page when it loads, the draw is a shuffle, and your drafts live in the tab you are reading this in. There is no upload, no recording, no account and no saving: close the tab and your answers are gone, which is a limitation stated rather than a feature.

Nothing here scores what you wrote, and it never will. A mark from a machine on an interview answer would be a promise nobody can keep: what makes an answer good is whether a person believed you, whether the example was really yours and whether the reasoning survived being pushed. So the reveal shows the checklist for that kind of question and the follow-up an interviewer would ask, and you mark your own. If you want somebody to listen to your answers and tell you what an interviewer would take from them, that is a mock interview with an actuary.

What we are assuming

That there are five kinds of question and knowing which one you are being asked is most of the skill. A competency question wants a named behaviour evidenced from your own past with a result attached. A technical question wants the intuition in plain words before any vocabulary. A motivational question wants reasons that survive one follow-up. A commercial question wants one development you can date and say the consequence of. A strengths question wants speed and honesty rather than a rehearsed story. Answering the wrong kind well is the most common way a prepared candidate loses a round.

That the timings are ours, not anybody’s published standard. The clock aims at two minutes for a competency answer, a minute and a half for technical, motivational and commercial, and forty five seconds for strengths. Nobody publishes those numbers, so they are recorded in the tool as a recommendation with the reasoning attached rather than dressed up as a rule. Two minutes is what Situation, Task, Action and Result needs and what a recorded video stage tends to allow; past it an assessor is waiting for the outcome.

That no employer here is asking you these questions. The questions are ours. We do not attribute a question to a named firm, because almost every list on the internet that does is second-hand, and a question you only understand if you know what one employer does is no use to you anywhere else. What employers do publish is the shape of their own process, and that is below.

What employers publish about their own stages

Five UK actuarial employers who set their process out plainly, read on their own careers pages on 10 September 2026. Five is not a survey. It is a demonstration that the answer to what happens at the interview is usually on the employer’s own site, which is where to check before you prepare for the wrong stage.

Sources, and what is not one

The question bank is ours, written to the same standard the course exams are held to: the question carries every fact needed to answer it, the knowledge transfers to another employer and another year, and nothing asks you to remember a market figure. The five kinds and what each answer has to show come from our own guide, actuarial interview questions and what good answers contain, which goes further into STAR, assessment centres and what to ask them at the end.

The only outside statements on this page are the 5 employer notes above. Each one was read on that employer’s own careers page, each carries the sentence it rests on and the date it was read, and each links straight back so you can check it. A candidate forum, a graduate job board and a recruiter’s blog are all pointers to where a statement might be, never the statement, so none of them is used here. Processes change every cycle: the date on each note is how long ago we looked, not a promise about this year.

Last checked 10 September 2026. 5 question kinds, 57 questions, 5 sourced employer notes.