PracticeVideosBlogFlashcardsEspañol
All Practice Exams

100+ Free Bocconi Graduate Test Practice Questions

Prepare for the Online Bocconi Test - International Graduate Applicants (Master of Science) exam with instant access — no signup required.

✓ No registration✓ No credit card✓ No hidden fees✓ Start practicing immediately
100+ Questions
100% Free

Loading practice questions...

Same family resources

Explore More International University Entrance Tests

Continue into nearby exams from the same family. Each card keeps practice questions, study guides, flashcards, videos, and articles in one place.

Bocconi Admission Test (Italy)

Practice Questions

Luiss Admission Test for Master's Degree Courses (Italy)

Practice Questions

Online Bocconi Test - Law (Italy)

Practice Questions

Online Bocconi Test for Specialized Master Programs (Italy)

Practice Questions
2026 Statistics

Key Facts: Bocconi Graduate Test Exam

50 questions

Items on the official test

Bocconi University

75 minutes

Total test duration

Bocconi University

24 of 50

Verbal reasoning items

Bocconi University

16 of 50

Data insight items

Bocconi University

€60

Fee per test attempt

Bocconi University

15 / 50

Score below which an applicant is excluded

Bocconi University

3 attempts

Maximum per academic year

Bocconi University

The Online Bocconi Test for International Graduate Applicants is a 75-minute, 50-question online proctored entrance test for Bocconi MSc and MA programs. It is a fixed-form test, not computer-adaptive, and carries negative marking of -0.25 to -0.33 per wrong answer, with a hard exclusion floor at 15 out of 50.

Sample Bocconi Graduate Test Practice Questions

Try these sample questions to test your Bocconi Graduate Test exam readiness. Each question includes a detailed explanation. Start the interactive quiz above for the full 100+ question experience with AI tutoring.

1Passage: In response to rapid advancements in financial technology, the European Union implemented new regulatory guidelines requiring fintech companies to disclose the algorithmic models used in automated risk assessment. Industry representatives argue that these mandatory disclosures compromise proprietary intellectual property and disincentivize R&D investment. However, financial regulators maintain that algorithmic transparency is essential for mitigating systemic credit risks and preventing discriminatory lending practices. According to the passage, what is the primary rationale provided by financial regulators for enforcing algorithmic transparency?
A.To accelerate private research and development in automated risk modeling.
B.To reduce systemic credit risks and eliminate discriminatory lending practices.
C.To grant fintech startups exclusive intellectual property protections.
D.To restrict consumer access to algorithmic credit scoring tools.
Explanation: The passage explicitly states that financial regulators view algorithmic transparency as essential for mitigating systemic credit risks and preventing discriminatory lending practices. Ensuring algorithmic transparency to mitigate systemic risk directly captures this rationale. The other options either misrepresent the regulatory objectives or attribute arguments made by industry representatives.
2Passage: European venture capital funding for clean technology initiatives grew by 35% in the preceding fiscal year, driven largely by public-private co-investment vehicles. Despite this surge, capital allocation to early-stage deep-tech hardware ventures remains constrained compared to software applications, due to longer commercialization horizons and higher capital intensity. Statement: Early-stage deep-tech hardware ventures received more venture capital funding than software applications in the preceding fiscal year. Based on the passage, the statement is:
A.False
B.True
C.Cannot be determined
D.Partially True
Explanation: The passage states that capital allocation to early-stage deep-tech hardware ventures remains constrained compared to software applications due to longer commercialization horizons. Therefore, the statement asserting that hardware received more funding than software is directly contradicted by the text, making it False.
3Economist: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) will inevitably weaken commercial banking systems because retail depositors will shift significant balances away from private commercial banks into zero-risk central bank accounts during economic downturns, triggering severe credit contraction. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the economist's argument?
A.Central banks plan to offer lower interest rates on digital currency deposits than commercial savings banks.
B.Commercial banks rely primarily on wholesale interbank lending rather than retail deposits for liquidity.
C.Central banks can set individual caps on CBDC holdings and apply tiered interest rates to disincentivize large retail deposit transfers.
D.Retail depositors frequently move funds between commercial banks during economic stability.
Explanation: The economist argues that retail depositors will shift large balances into CBDCs, triggering credit contraction. If central banks implement individual holding caps and tiered interest rates, retail depositors will be prevented or disincentivized from making large balance shifts, directly neutralizing the mechanism of the predicted bank run.
4Corporate governance mandates requiring standardized ESG reporting aim to provide institutional investors with comparable sustainability metrics. Critics argue that standardized frameworks encourage compliance-oriented 'box-checking' rather than meaningful operational decarbonization. However, empirical studies show that companies subject to mandatory ESG disclosures experience a statistically significant reduction in cost of capital, as capital markets reward reduced informational asymmetry. Which of the following best expresses the main conclusion of the passage?
A.Standardized ESG reporting fails to incentivize genuine operational decarbonization across corporations.
B.Institutional investors prefer voluntary ESG reporting frameworks to mandatory regulatory guidelines.
C.Reducing cost of capital is the sole objective of financial market regulatory authorities.
D.Mandatory ESG reporting yields measurable financial benefits by diminishing informational asymmetry in capital markets.
Explanation: The author presents a critique of standardized ESG reporting but counters it ('However...') with empirical evidence showing mandatory disclosures lower the cost of capital by reducing informational asymmetry. This counter-argument forms the central takeaway and main conclusion of the passage.
5Premise 1: All manufacturing firms that rely exclusively on single-source foreign suppliers experienced supply chain disruptions during the regional trade embargo. Premise 2: Firm X maintained uninterrupted manufacturing output throughout the regional trade embargo. Premise 3: Firm X operates in the manufacturing sector. Which of the following must be true based strictly on the premises above?
A.Firm X did not rely exclusively on single-source foreign suppliers during the trade embargo.
B.Firm X relies entirely on domestic suppliers for all raw materials.
C.Firm X was unaffected by foreign trade tariffs prior to the embargo.
D.Manufacturing firms with multiple suppliers never experience production delays.
Explanation: By modus tollens, if all firms relying exclusively on single-source foreign suppliers experienced disruptions, and Firm X (a manufacturing firm) experienced no disruptions, then Firm X cannot belong to the group of firms relying exclusively on single-source foreign suppliers.
6Passage: Digital platform ecosystems generate direct and indirect network effects. Direct network effects occur when the utility a user derives from a platform increases as the total number of users expands. Indirect network effects arise when an increase in users on one side of a two-sided market attracts complementary service providers on the opposing side, creating a self-reinforcing growth loop. According to the passage, what distinguishes indirect network effects from direct network effects?
A.Direct network effects require government subsidies, whereas indirect effects rely on private capital.
B.Direct network effects diminish user utility as the user base expands.
C.Indirect network effects involve cross-side participation of complementary service providers attracted by user growth.
D.Indirect network effects only apply to single-sided digital platforms.
Explanation: The passage specifies that indirect network effects occur when an increase in users on one side attracts complementary service providers on the opposing side of a two-sided market, creating cross-side utility expansion.
7Passage: Independent third-party audit firms evaluate voluntary carbon offset protocols by verifying project additionality—ensuring emissions reductions would not have occurred without carbon credit financing. Recent audits revealed that over 40% of forestry-based credits failed additionality benchmarks due to baseline projection inflation. Statement: Fewer than half of the audited forestry-based carbon offset projects failed to meet additionality benchmarks. Based on the passage, the statement is:
A.False
B.True
C.Cannot be determined
D.Partially False
Explanation: The passage says that 'over 40%' of forestry-based credits failed the additionality benchmark. 'Over 40%' is an open-ended lower bound: it is satisfied by 42% and equally by 65%. The statement claims the failure rate is under 50%, which the passage neither confirms nor contradicts, so it cannot be determined from the text.
8Venture Capital Partner: We should allocate funding to Early-Stage Artificial Intelligence Startups that prioritize enterprise software over consumer apps, because enterprise clients demonstrate higher customer retention and willingness to sign multi-year contracts. Which of the following is an underlying assumption of the VC partner's recommendation?
A.Consumer artificial intelligence applications never achieve profitability.
B.Multi-year enterprise contracts generate higher net customer lifetime value than high consumer acquisition volumes.
C.Enterprise software startups require less initial venture funding than consumer app developers.
D.Customer retention and multi-year contract stability are critical determinants of long-term venture returns.
Explanation: The recommendation to prioritize enterprise startups rests on the underlying assumption that the cited traits (retention and multi-year contracts) actually translate into superior long-term VC performance. If retention were irrelevant to venture returns, the premise would not support the conclusion.
9High-frequency trading (HFT) algorithms execute arbitrage trades in microseconds when price discrepancies occur across geographically dispersed exchanges. Last quarter, regulatory latency delays of 5 milliseconds were introduced between Exchange A and Exchange B. Consequently, arbitrage profit margins for HFT firms trading on those exchanges plummeted by 80%. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the statements above?
A.HFT arbitrage profitability depends heavily on execution speed advantages measured in units smaller than 5 milliseconds.
B.Latency delays of 5 milliseconds completely eliminated all market volatility between Exchange A and Exchange B.
C.HFT firms will cease all trading activities on Exchange A within the next fiscal quarter.
D.Manual floor traders captured 80% of the arbitrage profits lost by HFT algorithms.
Explanation: An 80% drop in arbitrage profits following a minute 5-millisecond delay indicates that HFT arbitrage margins are highly sensitive to execution speed windows beneath 5 milliseconds.
10Marketing Manager: Luxury Brand X raised its handbag prices by 20% last year, and total revenue increased by 25%. Therefore, demand for Luxury Brand X handbags is price inelastic, and raising prices further will always increase total company revenue. Which of the following highlights a critical flaw in the marketing manager's reasoning?
A.It ignores the possibility that competitors also raised prices during the same period.
B.It assumes that a pricing strategy that increased total revenue at one price level will continue to do so indefinitely.
C.It fails to measure customer brand satisfaction before and after the price increase.
D.It confuses total production cost with net operational profit.
Explanation: The flaw is the unwarranted extrapolation that because a 20% price hike increased revenue, price hikes will 'always' increase revenue indefinitely, ignoring demand elasticity thresholds where higher prices eventually drastically cut volume.

About the Bocconi Graduate Test Exam

The Online Bocconi Test for International Graduate Applicants is the selection test used by Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi for international candidates applying to its Master of Science and Master of Arts programs. It is delivered online with proctoring and consists of 50 multiple-choice questions in 75 minutes: 24 verbal reasoning, 16 data insight and 10 quantitative reasoning items. This free practice bank is an English-language study adaptation built from Bocconi's published subject areas - it is not an official Bocconi test, simulation or scoring model.

Assessment

50 multiple-choice questions in a single 75-minute online proctored session: 24 verbal reasoning (reading comprehension, data/statements, verbal critical reasoning), 16 data insight (numerical critical reasoning, data sufficiency) and 10 quantitative reasoning items, mixed by topic and difficulty.

Time Limit

75 minutes

Passing Score

+1 correct, 0 unanswered, -0.25 to -0.33 wrong. Bocconi publishes one hard floor: a total score below 15 out of 50 removes the applicant from the selection. There is no fixed pass mark above that - admission is by competitive ranking per program.

Exam Fee

€60 per test attempt (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)

Bocconi Graduate Test Exam Content Outline

48%

Verbal Reasoning

Reading comprehension, data statements analysis, and verbal critical reasoning

32%

Data Insight

Numerical critical reasoning, table/chart interpretation, and data sufficiency

20%

Quantitative Reasoning

Advanced algebra, quadratic functions, exponents, probability, and problem-solving

How to Pass the Bocconi Graduate Test Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: +1 correct, 0 unanswered, -0.25 to -0.33 wrong. Bocconi publishes one hard floor: a total score below 15 out of 50 removes the applicant from the selection. There is no fixed pass mark above that - admission is by competitive ranking per program.
  • Assessment: 50 multiple-choice questions in a single 75-minute online proctored session: 24 verbal reasoning (reading comprehension, data/statements, verbal critical reasoning), 16 data insight (numerical critical reasoning, data sufficiency) and 10 quantitative reasoning items, mixed by topic and difficulty.
  • Time limit: 75 minutes
  • Exam fee: €60 per test attempt

Keys to Passing

  • Work through all 100 available questions
  • Review every answer and explanation
  • Track weak areas and revisit them
  • Use our AI tutor for tough concepts

Bocconi Graduate Test Study Tips from Top Performers

1Verbal reasoning is 24 of 50 items - nearly half the test - so make reading comprehension and verbal critical reasoning your first priority
2Practise data sufficiency as a decision skill: work out whether a statement pins the answer down, and stop before doing the full computation
3Budget about 90 seconds per item and rehearse switching between passage reading, chart reading and algebra without losing pace
4Do not guess blindly - a wrong answer costs 0.25 to 0.33 while a blank costs nothing, though leaving too many blanks risks the 15/50 exclusion floor
5Download the official test sample from the 'Download area' of the Bocconi page; it is the only published item set for this specific test

Frequently Asked Questions

How many questions are on the Bocconi Graduate Test?

50 multiple-choice questions in 75 minutes: 24 verbal reasoning, 16 data insight and 10 quantitative reasoning.

What is the Data Insight section?

Data insight combines numerical critical reasoning - reading tables, histograms and graphs to solve a problem - with data sufficiency items, where you decide which of two statements are needed to answer a question rather than computing the answer.

Is there negative marking?

Yes. A correct answer scores +1, an unanswered question scores 0, and a wrong answer costs 0.25 to 0.33 points. A total score below 15 out of 50, penalties included, removes the applicant from the selection.

How much does the test cost and how often can I take it?

Each test attempt costs €60 on the webtesting platform, and applicants may take the test up to 3 times per academic year, never on the same or consecutive days.

Is the Bocconi Graduate Test computer-adaptive?

No. It is a fixed-form test: the 50 questions are distributed in a mixed way by topic and difficulty, and the difficulty does not adapt to your answers.