How to Practice Structure Drills and Present in a Clear, Structured Way?

Hi,

You've already recevied some sound advice, but I would add 4 tips that helped my prep:

• Memorise the top 3 structures : P&L, Market sizing and Aquisitions - and then build/ edit those when the case required.
• Mock case every 3 days but review everyday: I would do cases with other people every 3 days but I would review OLD cases everyday. Remind myself what an acquisition in a new market looked like, Remind myself what a telecommunciations industry case looked like
• For easy review: I would store my old cases pages into the case structures e.g. P&L cost cutting and then I'd store my relevent pages that I had done there
• Overall i did about 25 cases - and then redid the ones - too much novelty overwhelmed me. But I made sure that the cases covered P&L costs and revenue questions, market sizing sizing and growth, acquisitions of products, companies, selling etc. 

Good luck and happy to chat!

Great questions! Building strong case structures takes consistent practice, and it's normal to feel pressure around clarity and speed early on. Here’s how to train effectively:

1. Daily structure drill routine

Keep it short and focused, 15–30 minutes per day is enough.

• Pick one business problem (e.g., "declining profits," "market entry," "new product launch")
• Spend 1–2 minutes writing down a MECE structure
• Say it out loud, as if explaining to an interviewer
• Reflect: Was it MECE? Logical? Clear? Did you lead with a top-down overview?

Over time, rotate in less common prompts to challenge flexibility (e.g., "improve employee retention," "evaluate a subsidy program").

2. How to train clarity and delivery

• Use a verbal template to start:
  “To answer this, I’d look at three areas: First..., Second..., and Third...”
• Record yourself briefly explaining your structure
• Aim for brevity and signposting, e.g., “Let’s begin with revenues, which I’d break down into X and Y…”
• Practice slow and clear delivery under pressure, people rush and lose structure

3. Resources and exercises

• Build a personal “structure bank”: collect good frameworks from your practice cases and adapt them to new contexts
• Do “framework translation”: take one structure and apply it to a different problem (e.g., take a profitability framework and adapt it to retention)
• Try peer drills: challenge each other with random prompts and give feedback on clarity and MECE-ness

Watch for common pitfalls

• Avoid forcing generic buckets (e.g., always defaulting to internal vs. external)
• Keep structures actionable, not abstract — focus on what you would do with each bucket

With daily reps and reflection, it’ll start to feel much more natural. Let me know if you’d like a few structure prompts to kick off your routine!

Hi there!

Adding another resource to the thread. 

• Expert Guide: Mastering Structuring & Brainstorming

Best,
Cristian

Hi,

Ultimately what is most effective is going to be the ability to get quality feedback on what you are doing - that's the only way you are going to know whether what you are doing is good or how to do something better.

So, you can either

1. Find someone who you believe can give you quality feedback
2. Record yourself and self-assess

Of course, to do #2 you probably need to read and watch some best practices from books/YouTube etc, and there is a risk of blindspots.

All the best!