Hi fishes,

ADC with no MBA here. I’ve made it to final round interviews for the Consultant level with BCG, Bain, LEK, and Clearview in the past year and a bit, but no offers.
Feedback is about the same, they like me and think I would be a great fit (personality wise) but I made mistakes in one out of two cases (the good ones had very positive feedback). I always realized my mistake right after the interview and it is never the same. Any advice aside from casing more?

Thank you!!

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it is a muscle. only way to overcome is to refine. what kind of cases do you stumble with

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Thank you!

I agree with the above, but I would specifically drill your weaknesses. If you don’t know what those are, your starting point is to track them.

Doing a full-hour case every time, when the part you need to work on only takes 5 min, is a waste of 55 min.

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Good point! I think it is mostly structure but I will do a few of them and try to pin point it based on this. Thanks!

Practice makes perfect.

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That is very true, I definitely am not confident enough in the math and I think it shows, but true, practicing enough should get me there. Truly appreciate all the help!! I will practice and try again!

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Agreed with the above: be tactical about your prep.

I’d add, try to build in mechanisms to check your output. Meaning try to sense check your results as much as possible. You just calculated a number, does it make sense? Let’s say you just came up with a market size for some CPG product, given the est. number of customers, and frequency of purchase, what’s the implied average spend?

Let’s say you estimated cinema ticket sales to be $xB, and that somehow implies people spend either $200 or $0.5 per ticket, then, odds are there’s an error somewhere.

Laying out formulas in word usually helps, eg: Pop / HH size x penetration x …. Etc etc

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That is a great tip, thank you! I will make sure to take some time to check the output as I compute and say it. Thanks for the help!

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