Have one week to prepare for Bain consulting case interviews. Recommendation? Current Manager at Big4.

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A week seems tight… ask for more time?
If not, get on rocketblocks and get some live case practice

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Emailed me yesterday and only had slots for next week…for first round.

- Take the week off
- Listen to all of Look Over My Shoulders
- Case Interview Secrets for frameworks (you don’t have to read the whole book)
- Mock, mock, mock - 4+ mocks a day (28 in total)

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How can you take a week off as manager with no notice on a case?

How’d it go OP?

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For reals

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I did Mck with only 1 week prep and it was not pretty
Granted I was not in consulting. I wish i had focused more on case basics, speed and then being calm/myself. I ended up really only doing the first of those three. Hope that helps!

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