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Hello, Don't let this worry you too much - plenty of successful consultants come from STEM backgrounds, and there's less overlap between casing skills and college business/econ classes than you would think. Case intervi ... (read entire answer)
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Case Interview Prep - realistic?

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Hi Paulina,  Based on your description, your best bet would be to postpone the interview. There's nothing wrong with that. Firms prefer candidates postponing the interviews instead of showing unprepared, thus wasting th ... (read entire answer)
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Charts and graphs interpretation?

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Hello! I struggled with the same thing when I was preparing for my McK test back in the day -it was so so full of those horrible graphs- ;) I would strongly recomment you practice it with the Integrated Reasoning pa ... (read entire answer)
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How do I become confident in FIT interviews or during networking calls? (How do I stop rambling?)

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Hello! TBH, there is no secret recipe for this... only practicing a lot and recomming confident. For me at least, the best way to gain confidence is to feel confident about the topic and specific content I am deali ... (read entire answer)
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How to get over initial frustration of forming framework in case prep?

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Anonymous gave the best answer on Oct 26, 2020
Hello Firstly, take the pressure off yourself. Remember that the interviewer wants you to succeed and is in the room to help you ace the case interview. It is in the firm's best interest to encourage the most number ... (read entire answer)
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Resources to build industry specific knowledge for Case solving (specially in Indian context)

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Hi Avya! Great that you want to structure your case prep! The beautiful thing about consulting interview cases is that you basically don't need any industry specific knowledge. The toolkit that you build during the ... (read entire answer)
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Looking for a case prep coach - but not sure who to pick

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#1 BCG coach | MBB | Tier 2 | Digital, Tech, Platinion | 100% personal success rate (8/8) | 95% candidate success rate
Hi there, The answer is simple: Pick me :P Jokes aside, I'm sorry to hear about your experience and I promise you not all coaches are like that! Additionally, no one size fits all. I actually think it's really sim ... (read entire answer)
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Case Practice Questions

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Anonymous gave the best answer on Apr 08, 2020
Hi there 1) It is okay if you structure is not the same as the solution to the case. What the interviewer is looking for in your opening structure is whether you have a good approach to assess the problem at hand and ... (read entire answer)
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If you have recently interviewed with MBB, which case book(s) would you recommend using for practice?

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How important it is to have a hypo after asking clarifying Q and how bad to lay out standard yet worked framework? Tks

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Recent activity on Feb 09, 2019
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Hi, First, the hypothesis are not officially required for a McKinsey interview. That's smth Victor Cheng proposed to market his books. However, now there is a whole generation of interviewers who were prepared on his ... (read entire answer)
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