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CAMPAIGN · DAY 1

Today

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Market thesis5 min

paste & grade / 100 · saved to your market-thesis document

Technical90 min

today's sections · check each as you finish

Active recall lives inside this block: after each topic, close the source and blurt it from memory before moving on. Long topics split into Part 1 / Part 2 — the work happens in the source.

Behavioral20 min

two questions (Blue Book + IB Vine) · ~10 min each · scales 2 / 4 / 8 on light / single / double

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WSP Blue Book · p.77

Active recall5 min

next-day spaced pass · answer yesterday's · write tomorrow's

The in-block blurting already happened during the 90. This is the spaced pass: yesterday's questions, aloud then typed. Below 100 sends you to the exact source.

WRITE TOMORROW'S RECALL QUESTIONS

0 saved for tomorrow

Quiz5 min

your saved recall questions · self-test, then mark

No saved questions yet — write a few above and they appear here tomorrow.

Day complete

Seals when all five are checked.

Push

A miss moves down and spends a buffer.

Continue

Pull tomorrow's sections early.

Learning methods

How to take notes, learn each topic, and lock it in — the same loop every day, with recall built into the 90 minutes.

The note

One card per topic

the same five lines every time — if you can't fill them, you don't have the topic yet

Definition — one plain sentence, no jargon.
Formula — written out with units (skip for pure-concept topics).
What moves it — one thing that pushes it up, one that pushes it down.
The hook — what it behaves like in IB (cap rate ≈ inverse EBITDA multiple; FFO ≈ adjusted earnings).
The trap — the one thing interviewers press on (NOI is before debt service and capex; cap rate is going-in vs. exit).

Calculation topics (the NOI build, levered IRR, the waterfall, later DCF and LBO) add a small worked example with round numbers you can redo from memory. Explainer topics (capital stack, REIT, the waterfall) get a diagram — boxes and arrows, seniority top to bottom — not paragraphs.

Inside the 90 minutes

The loop — this is where active recall lives

run it per topic, ~20–30 min each, two topics a day

Prime (2 min) — read the headers, predict the formula and where it goes.
Read once, actively — pull only the five card lines; don't highlight everything.
Blurt — close the source, write the card from memory, then check and fix in a second color. This is the recall rep, in session.
Connect — write the hook line in your own words before you leave the topic.
Interleave — after every two topics, blurt both together so you practice picking the right framework.

How the loop bends

By topic type

Conceptual (the why) — lean on the definition, the trap, and the diagram; Feynman the one piece you want to own.
Procedural (the how) — the worked example is the note; blurt the steps, not the prose; drill the weak formula at the end of the block.
Analogical (the lens) — force the hook line every time; this is what welds real estate and IB into one body of knowledge.

Locking it in

Spacing after the block

The 5-minute recall slot is the next day — answer yesterday's questions aloud, then typed.
The quiz pulls those same questions a day later; the gap is what moves them to long-term memory.
Three passes on each diagram: rough at priming, annotated as you learn, clean at revision.

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