Recent McKinsey hires…what’s the average number of hours or number of cases you completed to prep for your interview?

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End up being c. 40 live peer-cases on preplounge + crafting cases (the free course) over 4 months (process kept dragging out so got extra time to practice, but it helped) keep practicing until you are not getting better

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Had a month - 20ish live cases, did a lot of drills on RocketBlocks and Crafting Cases as well

If I could pick one, crafting cases for sure. Does the best job teaching you how to case, way better than any other resource I’ve used. I got the paid drills as I needed more structuring practice but the free course alone was great

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5 live cases, 5 videos over a 20 days

Hit a plateau at about 45-50 but kept casing well beyond that just because I had friends prepping still. Happened over a course of 2.5 months (when things first shut down beginning of pandemic so I’m not the most recent example)

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