The 400 Investment Banking Question Guide - Is the Advanced section necessary?

I have a Superday coming up for a 2021 Summer Analyst position. In the 400 M&I question guide they divide each topic into "Basic" and "Advanced." I already have the Basics section down, is it necessary know the Advanced section for an SA position? I also never done a finance/IB internship before. Would like to hear your experiences

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When you say M&I 400, are you referring to the 400 questions or the full 600 pages guide?

 

It also highly depends on where you’re interviewing -From my experience, you should have a solid grasp of advanced sections if interviewing for EBs and only advanced the first sections excluding M&A/LBO for BBs. Anyhow, if you have time constraints I would make sure you know the first sections (accounting, dcf, EV/EQ) in and out before trying to grind the advanced LBO

 

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