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Firm guides
BCG Fit Interview: What Gets Scored and How to Prep
How BCG scores the fit portion of each interview: what interviewers listen for, how to build stories that survive follow-ups, and a prep assignment for today.
Firm guides
Bain Fit Interview: Stories That Survive Follow-Ups
How Bain's experience interview gets scored: operating principles, why-Bain specificity, and a probe-survival drill you can run tonight.
Frameworks
4C Framework in Cases: Tool, Not a Four-Word Recital
Separate Lauterborn's marketing 4Cs from the case 4C, see where recital fails, then adapt Customer, Competition, Company, and Costs on one live prompt.
Getting started
Why McKinsey? Pass the Firm-Swap Test Interviewers Use
Answer Why McKinsey with firm-swap-proof anchors from values, QuantumBlack, PEI, and global staffing—plus two spoken scripts and the probes they invite.
Getting started
Why BCG? Pass the Firm-Swap Test With Two Spoken Answers
Build a Why BCG answer from BCG's own pages—ideas, BCG X, candidate-led cases, mobility—run the firm-swap test, and rehearse two scripts with probes.
Getting started
Why Bain? Fail the Firm-Swap With Results, Home Office, PE
Build a Why Bain answer from Bain's results model, home-office staffing, and PE scale so a McKinsey or BCG name-swap breaks it.
Fundamentals
SHL Test for Consulting: Adaptive Scoring and How to Prep
How SHL Verify, G+, and OPQ work in consulting screens: adaptive scoring, norm groups, worked item types, and a practice protocol that matches the real test.
Frameworks
Pyramid Principle: Your Case Close Is Vertical Logic
Trace Minto's Pyramid Principle, see answer-first synthesis with a before/after transcript, and deliver one timed 60-second close.
Firm guides
Which KPMG Assessment You Face Depends on the Firm
Map KPMG UK graduate, UK undergraduate, and US early-career assessment stages from official careers pages, with prep that matches your invitation.
Fundamentals
HireVue Interview: What Is Scored (and What Is Not)
HireVue dropped facial analysis in 2021. What consulting one-way videos score today, how to structure a 90-second answer, and what invitation emails actually decide.
Firm guides
EY Assessment Stages Differ by Member Firm (US vs UK)
Map EY's US skills assessment, UK online tests and Experience Day, and Australia's job simulation from what each member firm actually publishes.
Firm guides
Deloitte Assessment Test: UK, US, and Job Simulation
Which Deloitte member firm you applied to changes the online stages. UK Immersive and Job Simulation vs US interviews, with a values ranking walkthrough.