How to practise
Methods, not schedules. How to drill a single skill, how to run a case alone, what a partner adds that a recording cannot, and how to get useful feedback from someone who has never consulted. No firm, no careers service and no page here publishes a number of weeks required to prepare, so these guides defend an order of work instead of inventing a calendar.
8 guides.
Case Practice Partner: How to Make a Non-Expert Useful
Bain publishes a good answer and a better answer for one question. That is a marking key, and it lets someone with no consulting background run a case on you.
The Fastest Way to Learn Case Interviews, Dimension First
Speed comes from isolating one dimension at a time. A full case that goes badly says nothing about which of six things failed. The order that works, and why.
How to Practice Cases Without Wasting the Repetitions
Firms publish the material and two timing constraints. None publishes how to practice, so here is a session structure with the arithmetic behind its numbers.
Interview Coaching: What a Second Person Can Actually Add
Interview coaching comes down to three things a human adds that no material can, two free sources of one of them, and the one promise that should end it.
What a Mock Interview Is, and How to Build a Real One
A mock interview is worth the hour when its conditions match the round it rehearses, and four firms publish formats that a single generic mock gets wrong.
Practicing Cases Alone: What Works and What Degrades
Four of the six dimensions a case is scored on survive solo practice and two degrade without a second person. Which is which, why, and the substitutes for both.
Consulting Interview Prep Timeline: Built From Your Email
Generic eight-week plans are wrong for at least one firm. Two published figures anchor a real calendar, and both of them arrive by email rather than on a page.
Last Minute Case Prep: What the Final 48 Hours Are For
Two days out, the right action depends on the stage. One firm says no preparation is needed for its assessment; another publishes the clock its cases run on.