One-Week Quant Interview Study Plan
A one-week quant interview study plan for candidates who need focused triage, repair, mocks, and final review.
Candidates with roughly one week before a quant interview.
Start with triage
With one week left, do not restart the whole curriculum. Use a short mixed diagnostic or your latest error log to identify the two highest-risk weaknesses. The week should repair those weaknesses and keep core skills warm.
Use a simple schedule
Day one is diagnostic and planning. Days two and three are focused repair. Day four is mixed practice. Day five is a mock or live explanation session. Day six is light review. Day seven is logistics, warmup, and rest.
Keep drills narrow
A one-week plan cannot fix everything. If conditional probability is the repeated miss, drill conditioning and Bayes variants. If market making communication is weak, practice quote explanations and trade updates.
Concrete one-week example
A trader candidate might spend two repair sessions on expected value and mental math, one session on market making updates, one mixed set, and one mock. A researcher candidate might swap the market game for statistics and research discussion.
What to skip
Skip new obscure topics, huge problem lists, and late-night full mocks. The final week should reduce variance. New material is useful only if it directly repairs a known high-risk gap.
Common mistakes
Candidates often cram randomly because time feels short. The better move is ruthless triage: repair the biggest repeated miss, rehearse explanation, and preserve energy for the interview.
Practice the pattern
Use the LeetQuidity curriculum and calibration to turn this topic into a focused practice plan.