An integrated 3-hour assessment combining E2, P2, and F2 knowledge in a realistic management-level business context. Included in the Management Level Pass Pack, £369, with lifetime access. The pre-seen is released on 25 September.
The November 2026 window
A case study is a timetable as much as a syllabus. Here is how the MCS course lines up against CIMA's dates for this sitting.
Dates are CIMA's for the November 2026 sitting. Registration closes on 27 October.
The next MCS sittings
The timetable above works back from the next window. Here are the next two side by side, with every date CIMA has published for them.
The November 2026 and February 2027 sittings share one pre-seen, and the MCS course is built around that pre-seen, so one course covers both. Sitting in February 2027? You buy the same course.
Dates are CIMA's published dates. Each window is a three-day sitting.
A word from your tutor
The Management Case Study puts you in a finance manager's chair for three hours. The technical content is behind you - what is being assessed is whether you can apply it to a real situation and write something a manager would actually act on.
We read the pre-seen together section by section, practise exam-standard scenarios until the format feels ordinary, and mark every mock against the marking grid, with feedback on every task.
Work backwards from the window when you plan. The pre-seen lands about seven weeks out, and the students who do well are the ones who have finished F2 before it arrives.
The exam
The Management Case Study integrates your E2, P2, and F2 knowledge into a mid-level management scenario at a fictional company. You'll respond to tasks from senior management, drawing on pre-seen material about the company and its industry. It tests strategic application, professional judgement, and communication.
What it draws on
The course, section by section
11 sections · 63 lessons · 25h 54m of video
Four tasks of about 45 minutes, each with multiple requirements. Pre-seen material released about seven weeks before the exam.
Modern tuition
Short lessons on the exam itself before the pre-seen lands, then lessons on the pre-seen once it does, with an AI Tutor in every lesson and a real tutor a question away.
AI Tutor in every lesson
"Can you go through the Pre-seen company and industry analysis part again, more simply?"
Of course. Here is the short version from this lesson, then the worked example again, one step at a time.
Real mock exams
Core Activity Mini-mocks to practise one task under time, and full mocks in an exam-style interface, so the format is familiar long before your slot.
Feedback on every mock
Every full mock and Core Activity Mini-mock comes back marked by AI against our marking grid, with feedback on every task and the model answer once you have finished.
Weakest sections
Question review
Personalised CIMA pack
Tell us which CIMA subjects you have already passed, or are exempt from taking. We have pre-ticked everything CIMA requires before MCS - adjust it if that is not you.
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Questions
Exam technique and pre-seen video lessons with an AI Tutor in every lesson, and full mock exams and Core Activity Mini-mocks written online in an exam-style interface, marked by AI against our marking grid, with feedback on every task and a model answer after your attempt. You can also ask a tutor a question on any lesson. Included in the Management Level Pass Pack, £369, lifetime access.
November 2026. The pre-seen is released on 25 September and registration closes on 27 October.
The November 2026 and February 2027 sittings share one pre-seen, and the MCS course is built around that pre-seen, so one course covers both. Sitting in February 2027? You buy the same course.
Yes. CIMA only lets you sit the case study once all three Management Objective Tests are passed, or exempt.
3 hours. Four tasks of about 45 minutes, each with multiple requirements. Pre-seen material released about seven weeks before the exam.
Yes, by AI against our marking grid. We write a grid for each mock, modelled on CIMA's published guidance and post-exam reports. Every task gets feedback, and the model answer opens once you have finished.
No. The case study comes with the Management Level Pass Pack. If you already own E2, P2 and F2, or some of them, the price you paid comes off the pack.
Lifetime access, on every course. There is no subscription and no renewal - if you need to resit, or come back to the material years later, it is still there.
November 2026 is closer than it looks.
Take the Management Level Pass Pack, or add the case study to the subjects you already own.