What happened in the room becomes part of your record.
After a paper test, a mock interview or the real thing, write down what came up, what went well and what did not. Link it to a set and the gaps become things you can study, not things you remember badly a week later.
- Six formats
Paper test, mock interview, real interview, case study, technical test, or anything else — each with the fields that matter for it.
- Gaps you can act on
The gaps you write down sit beside the set they came from, so the next session can start there.
- Folders keep it together
Sets, notes and postmortems for one goal live in one preparation folder, so the trail for an interview is in one place.
- What came up
- Walk me through a DCF. Why does EV not change when you raise debt. Deferred tax reversals.
- Gaps
- Froze on why DTL reverses; hand-waved terminal value.
- Felt
- 3 / 5
- Linked set
- Accounting — Talking
- What came up
- Walk me through a DCF. Why does EV not change when you raise debt. Deferred tax reversals.
- Gaps
- Froze on why DTL reverses; hand-waved terminal value.
- Felt
- 3 / 5
- Linked set
- Accounting — Talking
Ten minutes after, while it is fresh
What came up, what went well, what did not, what to do next — and how you felt walking out. Short fields, written once, kept forever.
- 2 Sep · Paper testRan out of time on the LBO section
- 9 Sep · Mock interviewFroze on why DTL reverses
- 11 Sep · Technical testDTL again — twice now
A trail your future self can read
Every postmortem is dated and linked to its set. Before the next interview, read the last three and see what keeps coming up.
Three things to say about any acquisition: strategic fit, synergies with a number attached, and what the market will think of the price…
Fit · quantified synergies · price reaction. Original text kept below.
Notes beside it
Keep your own notes in the same folder, with a summary drawn from them when you want one and your original text kept untouched underneath.
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What happened in the room becomes part of your record.
Every way of studying a set feeds the same memory of what you know — and every one is built for the answer in your own words.