Rotation Day
Ten desks, one stack of cards each. Sort them right — and never, ever misfile ethics.
The brief
It's assessment day. You rotate through every desk of the curriculum — ethics, quant, economics, financial reporting, fixed income, derivatives, portfolio management — and at each one you sort a stack of cards into the right bins. Drag, drop, commit, next desk. Every card is scored, so breadth is everything: you can't specialise your way out. And ethics cards are threaded all the way through — a front-running scenario, a CFO nudging you to cook the cash-flow statement, overheard inside information. Misfile ethics and your integrity pays for it, and if integrity runs out you're washed out of the program — however brilliant the rest of your day. Every topic of the course, one rotation.
How you play it
Drag every card to the desk it belongs to — and never, ever misfile an ethics case.
The job: Investment Analyst — The apprenticeship the whole industry runs on: valuing things properly, across every asset class, and learning where the ethical lines are before anyone is watching.
What an investment analyst actually does →What you're judged on
Every decision is marked to market server-side. These are the meters that move — run one to zero and the simulation ends there.
What it tests
No trivia — the simulation only asks what the chair actually has to know.
Where you learn this
Rotation Day is the finale of Charter Climb, waiting past Level 32 — The Summit — Charter Final. You can sit down right now and find out how much of it you already know; the course is there for the parts you don't.
Play Charter Climb →Other chairs
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