Financial mathematics quiz / competition
How are your financial mathematics skills? Try our quiz and, if you wish, enter our competition and see how you compare with others.
To try our quiz or enter our competition simply:
- Download the spreadsheet in the Links section on this page
- Attempt the questions in the spreadsheet
- If you do well then you can choose to post your name and score on our live leader board on this page
Quiz spreadsheet
Format of the problems
To solve the problems in this spreadsheet you'll need to put formulas into cells that have a colored background (e.g. as in cell H18).
When your formula is correct a blue marker on the left of the spreadsheet will turn yellow ..
Competition
You can enter our competition and see how you rank against others. Ranking is on the basis of the percentage of problems solved successfully. You will need to have macros enabled to do the following.
Finding percentage complete
To find the percentage of questions you've answered correctly begin by right mouse-clicking. A pop-up menu will appear ..
Click on the menu item titled "Tykoh check progress". A message box will show you the percentage of questions you've answered correctly.
Leader board
If your score is very good you may receive a message that your score would put you on our leaderboard ..
In that case you can click on the button titled "Add to board", type your name or tag and your score will be added to the leader board.
The live leader board will then be updated and you will see your name appear (or move up) in the rankings. The leader board is shown on this page in the "Links" section.