What order should you study technical topics for IB interviews?
The order to learn IB technicals, with question-frequency data by category and the core clusters to drill in each one.
The problem with technical prep
Technical prep overwhelms through excess. There are hundreds of concepts you could study, and the internet will happily hand you all of them at once. What matters is the order, because every advanced topic leans on a foundation underneath it.
One warning before the sequence: question frequency is not study priority. The most-tested categories come last, once the foundation lets you answer them.
Where to start
Accounting. Every model runs on it, and it is the language the rest of the sequence is written in. If you cannot trace how a line item moves through the three statements, valuation stays abstract, M&A math floats free of its meaning, and LBO mechanics never click.