Built for IB, PE, and corporate development candidates prepping for superdays and case interviews. Every lesson opens with the exact question a real interviewer or MD would ask about your assumptions — before you're allowed to move on. That's the gap between candidates who built a model and candidates who get an offer.
Everything is built around your actual diagnostic performance — not a generic curriculum.
A 4-question survey (2 min) captures your target role, interview date, and prior modeling experience.
Scenarios across DCF, LBO, M&A and 3-statement modeling. You justify assumptions, not just compute answers.
Every model type is rated Critical, Sharpen, or Maintain, based on your actual diagnostic score.
Your dashboard shows exactly what to build and defend today, this week, and before your superday.
Building the model was never the hard part. Defending the number you typed into a cell — live, under pressure — is.
You don't get assigned one track. Each of your model types gets its own track based on your diagnostic score.
These model types would cost you the offer. You get the complete build-and-defend sequence, worked examples, and a full 20-question assumption re-test before moving on.
You can build it — you drop points defending it. Focused lessons on the exact assumption traps for this model type, plus a 10-question drill.
You're strong here. A quick weekly assumption drill keeps it fresh before your superday — without wasting time on what's already solid.
This is not a from-zero modeling course. It's specifically designed for candidates heading into IB/PE interviews — which means it assumes a foundation and focuses entirely on defense.
Start your diagnostic →Pinpoints which model types cost you points — real diagnostic data, not your guess.
Built around your interview date and hours per week. Daily task cards so you always know what's next.
Every lesson opens by naming the specific defense traps candidates fall for on that model type — before explaining anything.
3 written assumption defenses, self-graded against a practitioner rubric, are locked at the end of each lesson.
Every lesson has a live calculator you adjust yourself, plus a numeric check with a real answer — not just watching someone else's math.
Download a one-page PDF summary and a fill-in-the-blank CSV template from every lesson — yours to keep and bring to the real interview.
The diagnostic covers all of it. Your plan focuses only on what you need.
We ask you to commit to these before you start. Candidates who follow them walk into their superday ready. Candidates who skip them don't.
The diagnostic will assign your tracks. Some will surprise you — a model type you thought was fine may score Critical. Follow the plan anyway.
Every lesson ends with 3 written defenses, self-graded against the rubric. The next lesson stays locked until all 3 pass. If the gate is closed, you're not ready.
If a model type is rated Maintain, the plan gives you a quick weekly drill and nothing else. That saved time belongs to your Critical tracks.
A PINC Courses programme.
Investment banking and private equity have always run on who you know. The technical bar for breaking in is public — every candidate can find a DCF walkthrough online. What's not public is how interviewers actually pressure-test your assumptions, because that only gets taught inside banks, or passed down through a network most candidates don't have. Model Defense exists to close that gap — not by teaching you the model again, but by teaching you to defend it the way insiders already know how to.
Superdays and case interviews don't wait for you to be ready. Start your diagnostic today.
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