BIWS Guides Suck

I'm a sophomore at a target recruiting next semester. Besides the BIWS guides and Rosenbaum and Pearl, what materials should I be using to study? The BIWS guides especially don't seem to be too helpful, and some of the questions just seem too easy to be asked in interviews.

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R u using the BIWS 400Q guide or the actual paid BIWS interview prep course? The 400Q guide is just a sample and not supposed to be the most comprehensive. The paid one is insanely good, best prep course out there, and trust me, I've used all the interview prep guides (WSO, WSP, etc.). WSP "red book" is decent as a supplement to BIWS and RXinterviews.com is pretty good as well for RX

 

My bad, the full URL is https://restructuringinterviews.com. It's the ultimate RX guide and pretty cheap as well, only $30 iirc. 

If u don't wanna pay, I recommend https://www.wallstreetprep.com/knowledge/ultimate-guide-financial-restr…. Its a free RX primer from WSP, albeit a bit surface level but enough to get u started. There's also free PDF's of Distressed Debt Analysis by Stephen Moyer (aka the RX bible) and the HL RX case study that are good intro's into the world of RX too. 

 
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WSO has lifetime access to our IB Interview Course (+12 month $ back guarantee) and we're investing heavily this year to improve it even more.

It also gets you a free 1yr access to the WSO Company Database which is a massive DB of interview questions, salary data, review by firm/group, etc...) AND it will soon get you free access to the WSO Template Library (soon to be announced) which is going to be a game changer (community wins long term :-). 

Since we've been collecting that data in the WSO Company DB for over a decade there is a lot of gold in there to help you prep too...

Stay tuned!

Patrick

 

The Peakframework IB recruiting course has been out for less than a year so it hasn't really established a solid track record yet and I've personally never tried it. However, if it's anything like his PE recruiting guide, which I heard is elite, then I assume his IB prep course is rock solid as well. 

(I just checked pricing and Peakframwork's IB recruiting guide is $347 while the BIWS one is $197.)

Nonetheless, the BIWS course is still the gold standard at this moment considering it's been out for over a decade (damn, Brian old af). I've networked with IB VP's that have told me they used BIWS back when they were recruiting. 

 

OP has a point, recruiting for soph summer I mosty got asked about stuff that’s on level with M&I advanced sections (which M&I says it’s unlikely you’ll be asked about for SA interviews). It feels weird to think that the junior summer technicals will be easier

 

I think you’re the wrong biws the m&i guide isn’t supposed to teach you shit. The biws course is

 

WSO has lifetime access to our IB Interview Course (+12 month $ back guarantee) and we're investing heavily this year to improve it even more.

It also gets you a free 1yr access to the WSO Company Database which is a massive DB of interview questions, salary data, review by firm/group, etc...) AND it will soon get you free access to the WSO Template Library (soon to be announced) which is going to be a game changer (community wins long term :-). 

Since we've been collecting that data in the WSO Company DB for over a decade there is a lot of gold in there to help you prep too...

Stay tuned!

Patrick

 

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