Arctic Shores tasks / Energy
Arctic Shores Energy practice
Pull four power switches to raise the grid to 6,000. Each adds power, but some drain a lot now and then. Find the steady ones.
One full free game, then a Arctic Shores pass ($4.99 for 30 days, paid once) for unlimited practice. Built from Arctic Shores' candidate help pages and the account of a candidate who took the real assessment three times (PwC, KPMG and HSBC apprenticeships), checked against what other practice sites report. No recording of the real test is public; screens and wording are ours.
How Energy works
- The grid starts low and needs 6,000. Four switches each add power when you pull them.
- Every switch can also drain a large amount at random, and each behaves differently.
- Sources disagree on the start: 2,000 or 3,500. Practice starts at 3,500 and allows up to 60 pulls.
- Practice amounts are our own. The real switches' values and odds are not public.
Time and scoring
About 3 to 5 minutes. Arctic Shores does not publish how tasks are scored and says there is no right way to approach them. Practice shows the raw measures a task like this records, so you can see how you play; it is not your real result.
Tips
- Try each switch a few times first and watch what it does over several pulls, not just one.
- The biggest gain per pull is not always the best switch.
- The candidate who rushed it ended near zero; going back methodically moved his report towards 'deliberating carefully'.
Questions
What does Energy measure?
Arctic Shores does not say. The candidate's report linked it to how he made decisions involving risk.
Is it like the Iowa gambling task?
The idea is the same: some options pay more each time but lose over time. Our practice switches are built that way.