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I've tried all, so here's my two cents.
Victor Cheng is only good after undergrad level when you have no idea about cases. It stops being useful the moment you start having real interviews. The highly generic frameworks there put you directly on a highway to get rejected. Avoid.
Crafting cases is really good and I'd suggest going through the entire free course first. Specially the part on hypothesis generation and testing. However they tend to be a bit too verbose when practicing and you might not have enough time in a real case. Good practice, nevertheless. Given that you have only a week left, I'd say do only the hypothesis part.
Case coach has definitely helped me. Although I didn't clear the BCG interview, it helped me land final rounds at t2/3 and an offer at a boutique. I'd suggest you do the following, given you have a week left:
In one day you can watch 2/3 of the live videos and do all of the guesstimates
The next day you can try doing one structuring and one chart interpretation exercise doc (10 examples each)
You can spend the remaining 3 days practicing the cases with a friend.
CI1 What is your background?
I found Hacking The Case Interview very useful. Live sessions are crucial, but quality counts. Prioritize doing 3-4 live sessions with actual BCGers over casing with applicants.
I just used craftingcases and rocket blocks
Can vouch that Crafting Case's Case Interview Fundamentals is a great resource. It's strange to me that it's free.
Just spend the money and use them
It’s not a factor of money (even then BCG provides interviewees free access to it) it’s a matter of time and the tradeoff’s between consuming more lessons vs doing self-study drills. (I’m prioritizing live case practice at the moment above all.)
Victor Cheng isn’t great. Firms consulting and Rocketblocks are great. management consulted for PEI stuff.