Table of Contents

Vocabulary .................................................................................................................................................... 2
Useful links .................................................................................................................................................... 3
Essential Business Knowledge....................................................................................................................... 3
McKinsey PST (more than 80% of success rate) ........................................................................................... 3
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 3
10 tips........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Preparation Plan ....................................................................................................................................... 3
BCG Potential Test (more than 85% of success rate) ................................................................................... 3
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 3
10 Tips ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
Preparation Plan ....................................................................................................................................... 3
Vocabulary
Stagnating: Cease to Flow or to move

Potential sales uplift: Act of raising potential sales

Cost effective: Cheaper

Surplus: An amount of something left over when requirements have been met. An excess of production
or supply over demand.

Exhibit: an object or collection of objects on public display in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair.

Stall: to stop or cause to stop making a process.

Gross profit= Revenue-Direct costs

𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑒 − 𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑡
𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛 =
𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑒
Inelastic: When the price goes up, consumer habits remain the same

Suburb: An outlying district of a city, especially a residential one

Commute: travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.

Up-front: Invested or paid in advance.

Downturn: A decline in any activity.

Procuring: Obtaining

Split: a subdivision

Facility: A place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose

Mainstream: Considered normal

Address: Think about and begin to deal with.

Overburden: Increase the work load

Wonder: Desire or be curious about something.

Concerns: worry

Plan
Know how to read the chats, the vocabulary, get used to common operations. Answer the test very
slow. Read questions first.

Review what you did, correct them

Do test again

Practice in speed.
Useful links
Networking:

https://igotanoffer.com/blogs/mckinsey-case-interview-blog/network-to-land-a-job-in-consulting

Essential Business Knowledge

https://igotanoffer.com/blogs/mckinsey-case-interview-blog/17233000-mckinsey-pst-essential-
business-knowledge

Fast Math:

https://igotanoffer.com/pages/case-interview-maths

Generalities:

https://www.preplounge.com/en/tests/mckinsey-pst

More information:

C:\Users\aecha\OneDrive - Universidad de Los Andes\0 postgraduate plans\Preparation for

McKinsey\Consulting PST Test Resources - DONE sg.pdf

Generalities:

https://www.caseinterview.com/mckinsey-problem-solving-test

Useful information (checked)

https://consultingchallenge.org/free-resources-2/pst/

Increase reading speed:

https://mconsultingprep.com/mckinsey-pst-speed-training-faster-reading/

Very good, general

https://fless.pro/prepare-mckinsey-pst-bcg-ow-spg-consulting-tests#BCG-written-case

Essential Business Knowledge

BCG Potential Test (more than 85% of success rate)
Question

- Common mistakes: Miscalculation or misinterpretation.

Save time for other question, try to approximate.

Improve exhibit reading.

When reading exhibits

1. Read the title

2. Read units.
3. Read and know what’s there (do not try to comprehend it)

Root Cause

Pitfalls

- Wrong subject/context (zero effect on the context)

- Wrong trend (the trend is opposed to what is said)
Fact-based conclusion question

Conclusions can be true, false or unproven

Do fast
The reason why BCG potential test is so difficult is because of the time constraint. So what I did was
work on any questions from the BCG potential test I could find and try to solve them super quickly. For
example, this question should be solved in 30 seconds "One of the biggest global airlines has decided to
buy new aircrafts. The ratio of first class, business and economy seats in the new aircrafts will be 1 to 3
to 8 and the total number of seats will be 240.

Average ticket prices for popular destinations are expected to be €700 for first class, €300 for business
and €150 for economy. The average duration of these flights is 3 hours.

First and business customers get free Wi-Fi on board but economy customers need to pay €2 / hour to
use Wi-Fi.
Assuming that only 5% of economy customers use Wi-Fi all the time, what are the expected revenues
from a flight to a popular destination using a new aircraft at its full capacity?

€56,048

€56,016

€56,480

€56,160"