Accenture placement test pattern: the assessments, in order, and how to prepare
Accenture's campus hiring in India is run through its own candidate portal, and the support pages there name the pieces without describing them: a behavioural and cognitive, technical and coding assessment, a communication assessment, a mock assessment, and an interview process, all taken through a locked-down browser. The order, the section sizes and the elimination rules are reported by prep sites and candidates, and they agree on the outline: a combined cognitive and technical test is the only true gate, a coding round decides whether the offer is Associate Software Engineer or Advanced ASE, and the communication assessment is mandatory but not eliminating.
This page keeps the two layers apart. What comes from Accenture's own pages is marked official; the sizes, timings and rules are marked commonly reported. Each section is mapped to the December Code subject that prepares for it, the parts the site does not cover are named, and the practice set at the end draws only on pages whose sample questions are already public.
December Code is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Accenture. This page summarises how Accenture campus hiring (ASE) is publicly described, from the sources listed at the end, checked on 29 September 2026. Where a detail comes from prep sites or candidate reports rather than Accenture itself, the page says so. The notification or test invitation for the drive you are sitting is the source of truth, and where it differs from this page, it is right.
How the process runs
A round is marked official when Accenture describes it on its own pages, and commonly reported when the description comes from prep sites and candidate reports.
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Registration on the India campus portalofficial
Accenture's India campus support pages cover the registration process, a cooling-period rule that stops a candidate who has applied within the last three months from applying again, and the identity and education documents the portal asks for. The Safe Exam Browser has to be installed before any assessment.
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Cognitive and technical assessmentofficial
Named on Accenture's support pages as the behavioural and cognitive, technical and coding assessments. Prep sites report the cognitive and technical part as the one elimination stage: a cognitive section of critical reasoning, abstract reasoning and verbal ability, and a technical section of multiple-choice questions on data structures, algorithms, databases, operating systems, networks and pseudocode.
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Coding assessmentofficial
Also named on the support pages. Commonly reported as two problems in about 45 minutes in C, C++, Java, Python or .NET, at easy-to-medium difficulty, and as the round that separates the standard ASE offer from Advanced ASE: everything before it qualifies you, this round grades you.
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Communication assessmentofficial
Named on the support pages as its own assessment. Reported as an audio-based, AI-scored test of spoken English across reading, listening, repeating and free speech, mandatory to complete but not an elimination round in most reports.
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Interviewofficial
The support pages describe an interview process with its own scheduling and rescheduling rules. Candidates report a single conversation that is mostly HR, with a technical discussion of the project and basics for Advanced ASE candidates.
What the test asks, and what prepares you for it
3 of 6 sections map to a December Code subject. The rest are named below, not glossed over.
| Section | What it tests | Prepare with |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Reasoningcommonly reported | Logical reasoning with a numerical bias: series, arrangements, data sufficiency, ratios and probability. Part of the cognitive section, which is commonly reported as 24 questions in 35 minutes. | Aptitude |
| Abstract Reasoningcommonly reported | Pattern-based questions on figures and sequences: which shape comes next, which does not belong. Not an arithmetic section and not one this site practises. | |
| Verbal Abilitycommonly reported | Reading comprehension, sentence completion and grammar within the cognitive section. | |
| Technical Assessmentcommonly reported | Multiple-choice questions on data structures and algorithms, database fundamentals, operating systems, networking, cloud and security concepts, and pseudocode tracing. Commonly reported as 40 questions in 40 minutes, sometimes as 90 questions combined with the cognitive section in 90 minutes. | DSADBMSSQLOperating SystemsComputer NetworksOOP |
| Codingcommonly reported | Two problems on arrays, strings, searching, sorting and basic mathematics for the ASE bar; harder problems and stricter code quality for Advanced ASE. About 45 minutes by most reports. | DSAJavaPythonC |
| Communicationcommonly reported | Spoken English scored by software: pronunciation, fluency, listening and comprehension. Reported as six parts and around 63 items. |
One gate, then a grade
The structure that every report agrees on is worth holding on to, because it changes where to spend preparation time. The cognitive and technical assessment is the elimination stage: fail its sectional cut-off and the process ends. The coding assessment is not a gate in the same way; it is reported to decide the grade, ASE or Advanced ASE, and a weak coding score leaves you with the standard offer rather than out. The communication assessment is reported as mandatory but non-eliminating.
Of the cognitive section's three parts, critical reasoning is the one that looks like every other company's reasoning paper and is what December Code's aptitude subject measures. Abstract reasoning, with its shapes and sequences, is a different skill and needs its own practice; verbal ability is English. The technical section, though, is squarely the CS core: candidates report data-structure and algorithm questions, database and SQL basics, operating systems and networking definitions, and pseudocode to trace. Those are five hubs on this site.
How hard it is, and what changes
Reports describe the technical questions as conceptual rather than deep: which structure gives constant-time lookup, what a primary key enforces, what a deadlock needs, which layer a protocol belongs to, what a short pseudocode loop prints. The difficulty is breadth under time, about a minute a question. The coding problems are reported as easy to medium, with the Advanced ASE bar set by problems that need a data structure beyond an array and by code quality.
Two things move between drives. The exact split between cognitive and technical questions differs between reports, with one source describing a combined 90-question, 90-minute paper and others a 24-plus-40 split, which is why this page marks every count as reported and why one prep site advises using the test invitation as the final word. And Accenture's India early-careers page, on the day this page was verified, said applications for its graduate roles were closed, which is how the season looks between drives: the page reopens when a drive does.
What the interview asks
Candidate reports describe a short interview, often a single conversation, that starts with an introduction and the final-year project and moves to a few technical basics: object-oriented concepts with an example, a SQL join, what a data structure you named is for, and for Advanced ASE candidates a discussion of the coding solutions. The rest is HR: relocation, shifts, the joining timeline and why Accenture. Prepared candidates report it as the easiest stage; the assessment is where the selection happens.
What December Code covers here, and what it does not
The diagnostic and practice cover Aptitude, DSA, OOP, DBMS, SQL, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Java, Python, C: the subjects behind 3 of the 6 sections above. It does not cover the following, and no page here pretends to:
- Abstract reasoning and verbal ability: two of the cognitive section's three parts. December Code covers the numerical and logical reasoning in the third part, not figures, sequences or English.
- The communication assessment: spoken English scored by software. Nothing here prepares for it.
- The coding judge: two problems executed against test cases in a locked browser. December Code prepares the data-structure reasoning in MCQ form and does not run your code.
What could not be confirmed from Accenture
- Every question count and duration on this page (24 cognitive questions in 35 minutes, 40 technical in 40, two coding problems in 45, 63 communication items) is a prep-site report; Accenture's pages name the assessments without sizing them.
- Which rounds eliminate. The one-gate structure is consistent across reports but is not stated by Accenture.
- The ASE versus Advanced ASE rule. Reports tie it to the coding round; Accenture's public pages do not describe the two grades.
A practice set for Accenture campus hiring (ASE)
Topic pages in the subjects this process tests, each with the questions interviewers ask and one question from the bank exactly as the diagnostic asks it. Nothing is published for this page: every sample was already public on its topic page.
- Number series questionsSeries questions are the reported core of critical reasoning.
- Probability questionsProbability and ratios are the numerical side of the critical-reasoning part.
- Ratio and proportion questionsReported alongside probability in the cognitive section's arithmetic.
- Coding-decoding questionsA logical-reasoning family that appears in most reported papers.
- Time and space complexity interview questionsThe technical section's algorithm questions are mostly about complexity and choice of structure.
- Hashing and hash table interview questionsWhich structure gives constant-time lookup is a reported technical question.
- Array and two-pointer interview questionsThe reported shape of the coding problems.
- String interview questionsString problems are the other family reports name for the coding round.
- Stack and queue interview questionsThe structure beyond arrays that Advanced ASE problems are reported to need.
How the diagnostic asks it
One public question per subject, the same one its hub shows. The answer is marked because these are public; in a sitting you choose first, then see why each option is right or wrong.
In a class of 80 students, 65% passed the mathematics exam. How many students passed?
- 155
- 252correct
- 360
- 448
65% of 80 = (65/100) x 80 = 52. So 52 students passed the exam.
Which of the following operations on an unsorted array of n integers takes O(n) time in the worst case?
- 1Finding the maximum elementcorrect
- 2Appending an element at the end when spare capacity already exists
- 3Reading the element at index k
- 4Reading the array's length
In an unsorted array the maximum could be anywhere, so every element must be examined: O(n). Indexed reads are O(1) because the address is computed from the base and the index; appending into existing spare capacity just writes one slot, O(1); and the length is stored, so reading it is O(1). Only a sorted array would let the maximum be read directly.
Measure it
Knowing the pattern tells you what is coming. A diagnostic tells you what you would get wrong.
10 Aptitude questions across its topics, easy to hard, about fifteen minutes. You get a readiness figure with the arithmetic shown, the topics you missed named, and a practice set sized for today. Free: 1 diagnostic a month and 15 problems a day. No card.
Sources, and when they were checked
Pattern last verified 29 September 2026, against the pages below. Patterns change between drives and cycles; when a source changes, this page changes and the date moves with it. A source marked official is Accenture’s own; the others are the established prep sites and candidate reports the “commonly reported” details come from.
- officialAccenture India campus portal: Support (assessment and interview process)· the assessments Accenture names, the mock assessment, the Safe Exam Browser, the three-month cooling period and the interview process
- officialAccenture India: Early career job opportunities for technology graduates· on the day of reading, graduate applications were shown as closed
- prep siteFACE Prep: Accenture recruitment 2026, eligibility and exam pattern· the five-stage pipeline, section contents and the ASE versus Advanced ASE split; dated August 2026
- prep siteGUVI: Accenture ASE 2026 preparation guide· a second report, including the combined 90-question figure and its advice to trust the test invitation; dated 16 September 2026