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What exists, what it is good for, and how to obtain it legitimately. School case books are the work of student clubs, often published by a separate legal entity from the school itself: these guides describe what a case book contains and who publishes it, and never host a copy or reproduce a prompt from one. Where a resource is ours, the page says so rather than implying a firm endorsed it.

34 guides.

AI Case Interview Tools Compared to Peer Practice 2026

No study compares AI case interview tools with peer practice, so this page asks what each form observes: a peer, a written scored exercise, a spoken case.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

Best Platform to Practice Case Interviews for MBB 2026

The best platform to practice case interviews for MBB depends on what each form observes: a peer, a coach, a written case, a scored tool, a firm simulator.

2026-10-07 · 13 min

Case in Point Review 2026: Who the 12th Edition Fits

A Case in Point review of the 12th edition of 2024: what Burgee Press publishes, what a 225 page book cannot grade, and the reader it still serves best.

2026-10-07 · 13 min

Case Interview Secrets Review 2026: A 2012 Book Today

A Case Interview Secrets review from the catalog records: 271 pages, Innovation Press 2012, the full chapter list, no publisher price, and who it still serves.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

CaseBasix Review 2026: Nine Simulators and Their Terms

A CaseBasix review of all nine assessment products: every published price, the access term on each, the refund clauses, and the free route the firms publish.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

CaseCoach Review 2026: What the $199 and $154 Each Buy

A CaseCoach review of the $49 monthly toolkit, the $199 annual pass and coaching from $154 an hour: fifty video classes counted, and the reader each one fits.

2026-10-07 · 13 min

Crafting Cases Review 2026: Who Its Video Drills Fit

A Crafting Cases review of all six courses: the price and access term of each, what Bain's own careers page says about them, and the reader a video drill fits.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

IGotAnOffer Review 2026: What One $50 Credit Buys You

An IGotAnOffer review of the credit model for consulting coaching: what an hour costs at 2 to 5 credits, what 45 minutes of case settles, and who should buy.

2026-10-07 · 13 min

Management Consulted Review 2026: What the $700 Pass Buys

A Management Consulted review of the $700 All Access Pass and $2,250 Black Belt: what each price covers, what a solution sheet cannot grade, and who it fits.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

McKinsey, Bain, BCG Case Interview Prep Tools (2026)

McKinsey publishes a permissions table for prep tools, BCG thirteen simulation modules, Bain its own vendor's hub for one of its two tests. Sorted by owner.

2026-10-07 · 10 min

MConsultingPrep Review 2026: Prices, Tiers, and Coaches

An MConsultingPrep review of the whole catalog: every published tier, the AI plan priced against ours, the coach liaison terms, and who each product fits.

2026-10-07 · 13 min

PrepLounge Review 2026: What the Free Tier Really Gives

A PrepLounge review of the free and paid account: the two different meeting caps the site publishes, what $79 buys for a year, and who peer practice fits.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

PrepMatter Review 2026: What the Solve Simulator Claims

A PrepMatter review of the Solve simulator and coaching: the prices it publishes, the one it does not, the refund thresholds, and what McKinsey says instead.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

RocketBlocks Review 2026: What the $35 Drills Cover

A RocketBlocks review of the $35 monthly and $155 annual plans: the three parts the publisher sells, the one thing it says it will not do, and who that suits.

2026-10-07 · 12 min

Victor Cheng Review 2026: LOMS, Frameworks, and Dates

A Victor Cheng review of what caseinterview.com still sells: the $297 LOMS price, the four frameworks, the discontinued coaching, and the last published update.

2026-10-07 · 11 min

The Wharton Case Book 2026: What the Free PDF Omits

The Wharton club serves no case book from its own site. Here is what we checked, what the file leaves out, and how to run one prompt with a partner properly.

2026-09-29 · 8 min

Case Interview Books 2026: Turn a Case Book Into Reps

Books and school case books supply prompts and nothing else. Here is the five gesture protocol that converts one prompt into a rep, and where prompts are free.

2026-09-29 · 10 min

Case Interview Drills: Six Dimensions, One Hour a Day

A drill is worth doing when it targets one dimension and returns a score. Six drills, the weights we grade them on, and a worked break-even from a real case.

2026-09-29 · 7 min

Case Interview Tools: What Each One Actually Trains

Case interview tools, sorted by the dimension each one moves, and the rule that reorders the list: McKinsey allows only pen and paper in its interviews.

2026-09-29 · 7 min

Case Interview Videos Published by the Firms Themselves

The firms film their own recruiters and consultants. Which videos exist, what each one is for, and the only two durations the embedded players actually state.

2026-09-27 · 7 min

Free Prep Resources the Firms Publish, and Their Limits

Six full cases with answers, thirteen free modules, one vendor practice test, and a university clinic you may not be eligible for. The inventory and its limits.

2026-09-27 · 7 min

Chicago Booth Case Book: Which Club Actually Owns It

Booth hosts two consulting clubs. One is Evening and Weekend only, the other an empty page. Neither serves a case book. We checked both on 30 September 2026.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

Darden Case Book: The School Disclaims Its Own Club

UVA prints a clause on the club's page saying the club is not part of or an agency of the University. So a Darden case book is not a Darden publication.

2026-09-26 · 11 min

Fuqua Casebook 2026: Duke Publishes a 20 to 30 Target

Fuqua casebook, and the number Duke publishes with it: practice 20 to 30 cases with a partner, costed in hours, plus the legitimate ways to get prompts.

2026-09-26 · 11 min

HBS Case Book: Three Different Things Share the Name

At Harvard, case book means a club interview document, the school's teaching cases, or a second club serving other faculties. Only one is what you want.

2026-09-26 · 11 min

INSEAD Case Book: The Club Calls It a Revamp Project

The INSEAD club's own page says it aims to revamp the INSEAD Consulting Club Case Book. That sentence is the only public statement any club makes about it.

2026-09-26 · 11 min

Kellogg Case Book: Its Own Library Says Where It Lives

The Kellogg case book sits in the school's own career library, listed and marked restricted to current students. That page points at nine firms' material.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

Michigan Ross Case Book: Its Board Signed a Warning

The 2019 Ross casebook opens with a signed letter saying two candidates can have very different conversations about the same problem, and encouraging it.

2026-09-26 · 10 min

MIT Sloan Case Book: A Club That Admits Its File Exists

The MIT Sloan club writes that members receive a copy of the Sloan Casebook. One of two clubs in this batch to name the document, and it serves no file at all.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

NYU Stern Case Book: A 2006 Prompt, Recorded in 2016

A Stern case book prompt from 2006 was worked and recorded by Yale's club in 2016, and Kellogg's career library catalogues it. The title carries the year.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Yale Case Book: Its Club Practiced Three Rivals' Cases

Four recorded Yale SOM club mock cases credit their source in the title. Three of the four came from the Kellogg, Ross and Stern case books, dated by year.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Columbia Case Book: The URL Named Casebook Is Empty

Columbia hosts a page whose filename is casebook.html. It serves the club's home template and no document. We opened it on 30 September 2026 and read it.

2026-09-26 · 9 min

Free Consulting Toolkit: Assemble One From Official Parts

A bundle behind an email form is a form, not a bundle. Here are the eleven official parts, the assembly order, and what our paid product adds to them.

2026-09-26 · 7 min

ESADE Case Book 2026: What the School Really Publishes

ESADE's own 22-page clubs brochure never uses the word case book. Here is what the school does publish, who owns such a file, and where licensed prompts sit.

2026-09-24 · 11 min