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Paul Akin is the founder of Quick Prep and the author of its case interview, fit interview and sector preparation material. He works with candidates preparing for management consulting interviews at McKinsey, BCG, Bain and the wider firm market, and writes the worked case library the site is built around.
Paul is the author of Quick Prep's preparation material: the 10 worked case studies in the case library, the 12 sector primers, the service pages, and the guides listed below. The case interview and fit interview hubs set out how that material fits together.
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Continue Reading Consulting Recruiting in Canada: Toronto, Cycles and OfficesConsulting digital assessments are the online screens firms run before the interview rounds — behavioural game batteries such as Pymetrics, and aptitude and situational tests such as SOVA.
Continue Reading Consulting Digital Assessments: Pymetrics, SOVA and Aptitude TestsBCG Casey is a chatbot-led online case that BCG uses to screen candidates, running a compressed case conversation with multiple-choice, chart and written-response questions.
Continue Reading BCG Casey: The Online Case Experience ExplainedMcKinsey Solve is the digital assessment McKinsey uses to screen candidates before the case interview rounds, built around scenario games rather than questions with recallable answers.
Continue Reading McKinsey Solve: What the Assessment Is and How to PrepareA market sizing case asks you to estimate the size of a market from a handful of known facts, building the number from a stated structure rather than recalling it.
Continue Reading Market Sizing Case Interviews: A Complete GuideA full practice case with the interviewer's prompt, the data released on request, the arithmetic and a model recommendation — an airline consortium with a budget and a perception problem.
Continue Reading Practice Case: Transforming the Perception of Air TravelFit interview questions fall into four recurring families — motivation, experience, self-assessment and your questions for the interviewer — and each rewards a different kind of answer.
Continue Reading Questions and Responses for Fit InterviewAn M&A case asks whether an acquisition creates value at the price offered, which turns on four questions — strategic rationale, target quality, valuation and integration.
Continue Reading Frameworks and Practice for Merger & Acquisition CaseThe Personal Experience Interview is McKinsey's structured behavioural round, in which one story is probed in depth across a single dimension rather than several stories being sampled briefly.
Continue Reading Acing the Personal Experience InterviewFour market entry practice prompts with worked solutions, covering the arithmetic, the exhibit reading and the recommendation each one is designed to test.
Continue Reading Market Entry Case Studies with SolutionsFour pricing practice prompts with full arithmetic, covering the break-even volume behind a price change, willingness to pay, tiering and the response of a competitor.
Continue Reading Pricing Strategy Cases with Detailed AnalysesStrategy consulting advises on which direction a business should take; management consulting covers the broader work of making an organisation function, including implementation.
Continue Reading Strategy Consulting vs. Management ConsultingThree supply chain practice prompts with worked solutions, covering inventory and service trade-offs, network design arithmetic and the cost of a single sourcing decision.
Continue Reading Real-World Supply Chain Optimization CasesThe McKinsey 7S Framework examines how seven parts of an organization fit together. Learn the elements, limitations and a practical interview application.
Continue Reading McKinsey 7S Framework: A Case Interview GuideA behavioural interview in consulting asks you to describe things you have actually done, on the premise that past behaviour predicts future behaviour better than stated intent does.
Continue Reading The Ultimate Guide to Behavioral Interviews in ConsultingCase maths is the mental arithmetic a case interview requires — estimation, percentages, growth rates and simple financial relationships, done out loud and without a calculator.
Continue Reading Consulting Case Math TechniquesRetail cases run on a small set of metrics — sales per square foot, basket size, conversion, inventory turns — and three practice prompts show how each one carries an answer.
Continue Reading Retail Industry Cases: Examples to Test Your Consulting SkillsA case interview opening is the first two to three minutes in which you restate the problem, confirm the objective, ask clarifying questions and present a structure.
Continue Reading Winning Case Interview Opening StrategiesBusiness intuition in a case interview is calibrated judgment — knowing what a plausible margin, market size or cost structure looks like, so you notice when an answer is wrong.
Continue Reading Business Intuition: Building Judgment for Case InterviewsThe results speak for themselves. Our preparation works.
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