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Practise real business cases and guesstimates, scored in ~60s. Clarify, structure, solve and get evaluated on the six things interviewers actually weigh. Built for MBA & PGDM placement season.
- Scoring dimensions
- 6
- Scoring dimensions
- Feedback time
- 60s
- Feedback time
- Structured feedback
- Instant
- Structured feedback
A quick-service restaurant chain’s profit fell 18% over two quarters — while revenue grew. Before you solve, what do you ask? (pick up to 2)
Used by aspirants targeting roles at
- McKinsey
- BCG
- Bain
- Goldman Sachs
- JPMorgan
- HUL
- P&G
- Amazon
- Flipkart
The MECE way
Don’t just prepare. Learn to think like a consultant.
We train you the way interviews work — clarify, structure, solve, recommend. Every case and guesstimate is scored across six dimensions so you know exactly where you stand and what to improve.
Explore the MECE framework- 01
Clarify
Understand the problem and ask the right questions.
- 02
Structure
Create a logical, MECE framework.
- 03
Solve
Analyse with data, insights and clear logic.
- 04
Recommend
Synthesise and propose a way forward.
Worked example
Profit fell 18% while revenue grew. Split it before you solve it.
- Revenue
- Costs
- Market
No overlaps, no gaps — that is MECE.
Every answer, scored out of 100
See the full rubricStructure
25pts
Quantitative
20pts
Synthesis
20pts
Business judgment
15pts
Creativity
10pts
Professional tone
10pts
Questions
What aspirants ask us
MECE (mece.in) is a placement-interview prep platform for MBA & PGDM students — not to be confused with the problem-solving principle it is named after.
Something else? team@mece.in
What is MECE?
MECE (mece.in) is an online MBA & PGDM placement-interview preparation platform for MBA & PGDM students. It offers a free case-interview casebook, case and guesstimate practice scored on a six-dimension consulting rubric, daily group-discussion (GD) briefs, and a national leaderboard.
Is mece.in the same as the MECE framework?
No. The MECE principle (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) is a problem-solving concept popularised in management consulting by Barbara Minto at McKinsey. MECE — the platform at mece.in — is a separate product that helps MBA and PGDM students prepare for placement interviews. It is named after the principle but is a distinct service. Our full guide to the principle itself is at mece.in/learn/mece-framework.
Who is MECE for?
MBA and PGDM students preparing for summer-internship and final placements — especially consulting, finance, marketing, product, and operations roles at firms such as McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Goldman Sachs, P&G, and HUL.
Is MECE free?
The MECE Casebook — frameworks, worked cases, and guesstimates — is free to read without an account. Scored practice, GD briefs, and the leaderboard need a free account, with paid plans for unlimited practice. No credit card is required to start.
How does MECE score my answers?
Every submission is graded on a transparent 100-point rubric across six dimensions — Structure, Quantitative, Synthesis, Business Judgment, Creativity, and Professional Tone — with written feedback in about 60 seconds. The full rubric is on the methodology page.
Success stories
From practice to placement
MBA and PGDM students on what changed in their preparation — in their own words.
MECE's structured feedback was a game-changer for my prep. The platform didn't just tell me if my final answer was right; it broke down my entire thought process. That rigorous daily practice gave me the confidence to ace my interviews and secure a summer internship at Jindal Steel.

The 6-dimension scoring is brutally honest. In mock interviews my friends always went easy on me; here nothing slipped through, and it pushed me to write much tighter syntheses.

I prepped for my finance interviews almost entirely on here. The honest scoring kept showing me where my synthesis was weak until I finally fixed it, and I walked into my PwC process a lot calmer than I expected.

As an HR student, GDs decide a lot, and abstract topics used to throw me off completely. Practising the method on MECE taught me to open up a few angles fast and stay calm. By my Nestle process I was the one giving the discussion its structure instead of just adding one more point.

Coming from an engineering and analyst background, I used to overcomplicate every case. The frameworks here taught me when to keep it simple, and that one shift is what got me through my summers process.

I have done plenty of case competitions, but MECE is what tightened my actual thinking. The scoring kept pointing out where my structure leaked, and fixing that showed up directly in my ITC interviews. It is honest in a way mock rounds with friends never are.

My background is core engineering, so case rounds scared me at first. Doing one structured case a day for a few weeks made them feel routine. The guesstimate walkthroughs were the part that helped me the most.

Coming from a tech background, I was not confident with cases at all. Doing one case and one guesstimate a day slowly rewired how I break a problem down. By summers I could structure a case without panicking, and that is what carried me through the GEP process.

The GD briefs were a lifesaver on results day. I walked into a group discussion with two or three angles nobody else had thought of, and for an HR role that ability to frame a discussion mattered a lot.

As a developer moving into management, I had to learn to think in business terms. The casebook actually explains when not to use a framework, which is the part most resources skip, and it changed how I approach problems.

Sumit Rathore
Summer Intern @ TCS · Software Developer
IIM Indore '27
I was strong on the creative side but loose on structure. Practising here tightened how I argue a point, which helped in both my marketing case and the interview that followed it.

Switching from software to management, I had no idea how to structure a case. The worked examples here were the bridge. I read one most mornings and the patterns slowly became second nature.

Guesstimates used to be the part I dreaded. The walkthroughs showed me how to anchor on real numbers instead of guessing, and now I actually enjoy them. That confidence carried straight into my interviews.
PP MECE caught flaws in my hypothesis-driven thinking that no one else had pointed out. Used it daily for three weeks before placement season.

The daily practice gave me a routine in a season where everything felt chaotic. Getting scored on six dimensions instead of a vague good job is what actually pushed me to improve week over week.
YK Yash Kumar
CFA Level 1 · FRM Part 1
IIM Indore '27
After years at sea I was rusty on analytical interviews. The feedback here was blunt in the best way and got me back in shape before placements. The consistency of practising daily is what really did it.

I am not naturally a disciplined person, so the daily case and guesstimate habit is what kept me going. By the time interviews came around, structuring felt automatic rather than forced.

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