Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

mental math, analyzing exhibits). For example, by running math drills, you won’t have an unfamiliar case and general casing nerves impeding your ability to make calculations. Some other good resources include Victor Cheng’s mental math tool and CraftingCases’s free course. Practice them in isolation.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

1 – Mental Math. It may be required of you in a sizing question or in a case study, but no matter what, you won’t get into a top consulting firm if you can’t demonstrate acuity with math. If you don’t like mental math, especially mental math with large numbers, then PRACTICE!

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

What are Mental Models? We refer to these lenses as ‘mental models’. Mental models are tools for the mind that are built on the foundations of physics, biology, math, psychology, as well as history and economics. Models that help us understand our mental processes (anchors and biases) and how they lead us astray.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

Fourth, and perhaps the easiest way in which points might get docked, can you do mental math – accurately and fast? While none of the math will be Ph.D-level level hard, doing math and talking through it in front of an interviewer can be nerve-wracking, to say the least. Remember, it’s the whole picture that counts.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Was mental math your Achilles’ heel? Or, doing brain exercises on the Elevate App could improve your mental math and reasoning skills. Review the feedback you receive, and reflect on your own experience, from the way you prepared and researched through to your interactions in the interview.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2017

I used to be the prototypical young mathphobe: I flunked or barely passed any math course I was forced to orbit. For me, graduating from high school was thrilling in that I would never have to touch a math or science book again. I genuinely thought any new concept I faced in math should just “click” instantly.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the new format, your brain sees the image of a star, but then it has to do the mental math of turning the number 4.6 It looks like this: instead of like this: It’s subtle, but it can make a very big impact on merchants, on their profits, and on what we buy. into something with weight and emotional heft–a bunch of stars.

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Management Consulted

JULY 10, 2016

This is mostly a math test, and doesn’t have much to do with the case interview at all. Make sure you brush up on your math problem solving skills before going in for the test! If you’d like some help getting up to speed with your math skills, take advantage of our Mental Math Bootcamp and get practicing!

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Once you have laid out the structure, you can begin to add your assumptions into the formula and use your mental maths to come up with a well thought out answer. is probably not the best choice, even if it is more accurate because it will be harder when you come to using your mental maths. At the same time, £1.19

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Market sizing questions test your mental maths, your business instincts, your ability to hold lots of information in your head, and your ability to perform under pressure. Remember, lots of people can do the maths, but to be a consultant, you need to have a linear, structured, and understandable way of thinking.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

To be totally mentally alert and full of beans, I woke up particularly early before my BCG final to arrive 30 mins before and basically wander around town on the way in with a coffee. Math error (wrong answer the first time) in an interview with a table of numbers. problems with math.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 6, 2019

Let me do the math now. If we assume a typical day has 25 hours (to make our math a little simpler), that's 1 million days to move the mountain using only 1 truck. The math is not that complicated (it's math we all learned before high school) BUT communicating what you are doing is just as important.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 15, 2019

In the story the student shares her tips for becoming more confident, practicing case interview math and practicing cases. 2) Practicing mental math. I have found a really great tool for mental math training to use in addition to your Case Interview Math Tool. I did download and try the math practice tool.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 20, 2019

Let me do the math now. If we assume a typical day has 25 hours (to make our math a little simpler), that's 1 million days to move the mountain using only 1 truck. The math is not that complicated (it's math we all learned before high school), BUT communicating what you are doing is just as important.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Overall, maybe 10 mock tests, plus the maths. I made sure to spend at least 15 minutes every day on your Math Practice site. Since I was doing very well in that, I think interviewers were happy to cut me some slack and did not mind I took my time to do the maths. Preparation for the PST: . Preparation for the Interviews: .

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Management Consulted

MARCH 8, 2015

As you’ve already gathered, case interviews are designed to test candidates multidimensionally – they test problem solving abilities, ability to communicate, capacity to handle pressure, professionalism, ability to do basic mental math, etc. at the same time. Because of that, nailing the case interviews is a challenge.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Math Practice. One of the easiest ways to mess up your interview is to make a mistake with the mental arithmetic. I know that seems somewhat extreme, but math is an integral part of consulting and partners can’t risk you making a mistake when the client is paying the firm so much money. Fit Practice.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Do as many numerical and verbal reasoning tests online as you can and remember to brush up on your mental maths skills, especially if it’s been a while! For example, one of my friends used an app called ‘ King of Maths ’ to prepare for her tests, which is a game in which you level up your character by answering maths questions.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

For this round, you’ll want to be absolutely sure that you’ve brushed up on your Mental Math skills. . This will be a combination problem-solving and fit interview (think a blend of PST and case interview). Are you interested in a job at CHG Healthcare Services? Find how to begin on the Careers Page.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

You will have to do more than simply walk the interviewers through your mental process; you will have to verbally walk them through your math as well (eek!). and technical (math!) You must do this well, or you will not land an offer. How do you keep organized? )

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Next, you’ll be invited in for 1-3 rounds of interviews in office, with each round consisting of business problem-solving (make sure you brush up on that Mental Math !) and a fit interview portion.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Finally, if you make it that far, you will be invited to an onsite “super day” where you go through three separate interviews with various consultants and partners and a written math test (be sure to brush up on those mental math skills !). This is one long and taxing day, so get some good sleep the night before!

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2018

I was inserting mental math into every aspect of my life. I had barely heard of a case or behavioral interview, didn’t have a business style resume, nor did I really have any idea when applications were due and what made someone competitive for one of these coveted jobs. I read all the major books, blogs, and resources out there.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 8, 2022

Drill into refining the core skillsets: problem structure, mental math, charts, data analysis, and communication. YouTube) and get your hands on great sample cases directly from your target firms or MBA casebooks (e.g. Kellogg, Darden, etc.).

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

Mental math! Plus, go ahead and get up to speed with all that middle school math we’re sure you used to love – review fractions, percentages and compounding interest. As if that wasn’t already hard enough, spend the remainder of the time interpreting the answers and providing next steps. Your best friend, right?

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 16, 2019

I started preparing last September with a couple of case interviews with current consultants, then worked on mental math questions and read Case In Point. Good conclusion with a little math then a lengthy general discussion that ran way over schedule, I felt good. BCG decided to invite me for a decision round.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Once a branch of an issue tree has been eliminated as a possible issue, I mentally push all the data that I needed to determine that mini-conclusion to the back of my mind. They grasp all the math but sometimes miss the qualitative. When there is math, you need to drill down into the numbers. You need to be relentless at both.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Level 2: 1) Technical Stuff 2) Mental Stuff 3) Physical Stuff. 2) The second driver of nervousness is what I call “mental stuff." Within this particular branch of this issue, I would add the following: Level 2: Mental Stuff. You must mentally get to a place where you don't care about the outcome. but I can't help it!

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin and math drills for the guesstimation questions (two weeks). However, if you go over the moderate level to intense levels of stress, it degrades cognitive function, memory, mental speed, and numerous other things. Three or four days later, I would listen to them again.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Typically, after the Skype call, there will be another round consisting of a case and fit interview (make sure you brush up on that Mental Math !) A HR person will call and schedule a personal interview or a conference call through Skype (depending on where you are located). Target Schools. Carnegie Mellon University.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2018

In one task, participants simultaneously completed math problems and memorized random letters. Performance on both of these tasks is affected by individuals’ available mental resources. In recent research , we investigated whether merely having one’s own smartphone nearby could influence cognitive abilities.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 4, 2015

It’s a great news for those of you with dazzling personalities who break into hives at the sight of mental math. That’s right – they are one of the only firms without a focus on cases. As such, you need to make sure you can talk about your resume and your experience backwards, forwards and at length.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 3, 2021

If you have a client that’s not great at doing fast mental math, you’ll have to draw it out so that they can see it. Right now, people at McKinsey are not seeing clients in-person. So, for client meetings, they’re using these video platforms as well.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

I don’t mean the social “rules” but rather the physics and math of cyberspace. As a result, our physical-world mental models simply won’t work in cyberspace. Differing Rules in Cyberspace. Cyberspace operates according to different rules than the physical world. Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Maybe you do mental math , and they simply can't keep up. Trust me on this one. you want the administrative assistant to be your ally. and if that person is not your ally, at a minimum you want to make sure they are not your enemy. 2) The other bad habit is to assume you are somehow "better" than a (junior) client.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

When parents aren’t worried about running late, they can keep their mental energies focused on the business. ” Related Video. This simple move cuts down on the anxiety surrounding timely daycare pick-up and drop-off, and the expense related to daycare overtime charges. Make schedules predictable.

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Peter Stark

APRIL 28, 2019

If you know recruiting math, it is estimated that it costs organizations between one to two times an employee’s salary to recruit, hire and train a new employee. Visions are clear mental pictures, described with words, of the outcome you want to create. When everyone knows the truth, everyone can be a part of the solution.

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