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Consulting Case Interview Prep

A dated case prep plan: firm formats checked, a scored practice log, live cases with partners, structures built from the question, chart reading, synthesis drills and interview days rehearsed.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Consulting Case Interview Prep, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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📋 Management Consulting

Consulting Case Interview Prep

Preparing for consulting case interviews: structures built from the question, structuring out loud, chart reading, synthesis and a schedule of live cases with partners.

  1. Interview format check for each target firm
  2. Baseline diagnostic case with a scored debrief
  3. Case practice log and scoring rubric
  4. Case prep calendar counted back from interviews
  5. Shortlist of casebooks and practice sources
  6. Roster of six regular case partners
  7. Case notes page layout and paper kit
  8. Clarifying questions for the opening two minutes
  9. Virtual case interview setup
  10. Twice-weekly live cases as candidate
  11. Weekly cases given as interviewer
  12. Sunday review of the case log
  13. Ten-minute daily chart drill
  14. Daily two-minute structuring drill
  15. Monthly recorded case replay
  16. Business news habit for case context
  17. Monthly mock with a working consultant
  18. Industry primer cards kept current
  19. Building structures from the question, not frameworks
  20. Walking the interviewer through your structure
  21. Profitability cases from the client's situation
  22. Market entry and growth cases
  23. Acquisition and investment decision cases
  24. Operations, cost and capacity cases
  25. Pricing and new product launch cases
  26. Reading exhibits for the so-what
  27. Structured brainstorming answers
  28. Synthesis and the closing recommendation
  29. Stating and updating a hypothesis during the case
  30. Driving a candidate-led case forward
  31. Interviewer-led case drills
  32. Framework dependency audit
  33. Plateau remediation plan
  34. Coaching, course or peer practice spending decision
  35. Cutting filler words and rambling openers
  36. Recovery lines for when you get stuck
  37. Interview readiness check before booking dates
  38. Mock interview day with three back-to-back cases
  39. First-round interview week
  40. Final-round day with partner cases
  41. Same-day debrief after each real interview
  42. University case competition entry
  43. Undergraduate case prep around exam season
  44. Experienced hire prep around a full-time job
  45. Business intuition crash course for technical and PhD candidates
  46. Case interviews in a second language
  47. Reapplying after a consulting rejection
  48. Running a case programme for a student consulting club
  49. Ambiguous partner cases with little data
  50. Writing original cases from real company news

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Interview format check for each target firm

Firms run cases differently: some let the candidate drive, some lead you question by question, some add written exercises or digital assessments, and formats change between seasons. Checking each firm's current careers pages and asking a recent hire before you practise means your hours go into the format you will actually face.

First tasks

  • List every firm you plan to interview with this season
  • Read each firm's current interview preparation page and note the case style
  • Ask one recent hire per firm how their rounds actually ran
  • Mark which firms use candidate-led and which use interviewer-led cases

Baseline diagnostic case with a scored debrief

Before practising anything you need to know where you start, and most candidates guess wrong about their own weak spot. One full case with a partner who scores you on structure, maths, charts, synthesis and communication gives a baseline that every later case can be compared against.

First tasks

  • Ask an experienced case partner to give you an unseen case this week
  • Agree the five scoring dimensions with the partner before you start
  • Write down the two moments where you lost the thread
  • Record the scores as the first entry in your log

Case practice log and scoring rubric

Fifty cases with no record teach less than twenty logged ones, because patterns only show when you can see them across weeks. A simple log with a fixed rubric turns every practice case into a data point and makes your weekly review a ten-minute job.

First tasks

  • Write the five rubric dimensions with what a 3 and a 5 look like
  • Set up the log with date, partner, case type, scores, strength and fix
  • Enter the baseline case and any cases already done
  • Add a running average per dimension at the top of the log

Make it yours.

Install Consulting Case Interview Prep, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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