Reading a model answer teaches almost nothing, because recognising a good answer feels identical to being able to give one. Here the answer stays hidden until you commit to yours, which is the only arrangement that tells you the truth about where you are. Hear the question asked, say your answer out loud, and get the delivery back alongside the substance.
43 questions and 60 follow-ups across accounting, valuation, DCF, M&A, LBO, markets and credit. You mark each answer against the rubric below, which is the same one the marker uses.
This browser has no built-in dictation, so this one is typed. Chrome, Edge and Safari let you speak the answer instead, which is worth using: an answer you say out loud is the one you will have to give.
Correctness is the only criterion that can sink an answer on its own. A confidently wrong answer does not pass because it was well organised, so a weak mark there caps the total whatever the rest looks like.
Whether the substance is right, including the direction and the sign.
Whether the answer had a shape someone could follow the first time.
Whether the answer gave the reason, not only the rule.
Whether numbers, periods and named things appeared where they should.
Whether assumptions were stated and uncertainty was named rather than bluffed.
A mock finds the gaps. Closing them happens somewhere else: the concept behind every question links to its explainer, and every question with a drill behind it links to one. If the same criterion keeps coming back weak, that is the thing to work on, not the next question.