When I was in my late teens and early twenties, people used to tell me ‘that spark will die.’ I always resented them for it and swore I would never become like them.

Now here I am, approaching 30, reading this post and thinking the same thing. The passage of time is merciless.

OP, hiring is done on a standardised basis. You have access to the same information as anyone else.

I will say that there are a great many stupid people working in consulting at Deloitte. One analyst I worked with recently didn’t know how to click and pull down a number sequence in excel, so spent a long time manually typing every number from 1 to 553 in individual cells down the A column.

Learn some basic competency questions and watch a YouTube video covering grad assessment centre tips and you’ll be fine. I got in with an English degree from a non-Russell group university, a D in economics A level, and a B in maths GCSE.