1 month studying for SA25, am I screwed?

I know recruiting is happening atm and I’m in the thick of it. But my technical knowledge is quite minimal.

Could I properly prep for technicals in the next 2-4 weeks? And if so, how could I go about doing it?

Thank you so much - any advice appreciated.

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Ar you a finance major? If you're taken the equivalent of finance 1 and accounting 1 you have a good start already. If you don't have any finance background, you might be in trouble.

There are more detailed threads on here, I would do a search but the M&I 400 PDF (can google) is a good place to start. My firm, along with many others, literally prints out the M&I 400 as the technicals interview, and there are some questions that come up in almost every technical interview. There are also courses, including one on here, that will spoon feed it to you if you want to pay for a course. Also you don't need to learn to model by any means, but I have found that the ones that have you build out a very simple model can help conceptualize how the statements flow together.

 
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