I’m taking course 4 / Exam C on Monday. There’s so much material to remember. My manual, Abe Weishaus’s ASM, is excellent, and the practice exams are supposed to be harder than the real thing… but we’ll find out. Practice exam 6 and 7 (the last two) definitely seem designed to kick your ass, and I did better on 6 than I had been doing, so that’s a good sign I guess. Gotta pass this, or I’ll feel like I wasted this whole semester.
One of my colleagues sat one of the Society exams yesterday. A shortish one - only an hour and a half. Something to do with pension fund maths?
All of the other students in the office have been busy sitting the local exams. They end today, I think.
Hour and a half, eh? Would that be one of the Enrolled Actuary exams (pension stuff)? I don’t know much about them.
Can’t say I’d want to be a pension actuary.
Note that Cuncator is Australian. The system down there is a lot closer to the UK system than to ours (but not exactly the same, IIRC).
I’ll be sitting for MFE on Tuesday. If I’d been able to take it before school started, I would’ve passed it comfortably, but I haven’t studied much in the last month or so. This weekend is not going to be fun.
Good luck; 4/C looks like a bitch and a half.
I’m not sure. I don’t know anything about the American exams. I’ll have to ask my colleague when she gets back next week.
Yeah, but Australia has an ‘Institute,’ not a ‘Society,’ so I assumed he meant the American one.
On a side note, I had no idea, ultrafilter, that you were doing actuarial work. You post so frequently on advanced math/CS topics I figured you must be going for a graduate degree in math. How long have you been on this track?
At least I haven’t been roped in for marking this time round.
It’s not the most exciting of activities.
I actually just started a graduate program in CS this fall. I started taking actuarial exams then both as a backup plan in case I didn’t get in anywhere (which turned out not to be a problem) and to set myself up for a pretty decent career path afterwards. This is probably the last one I’ll do before school’s out.
Well, I’ll be answering 170 multiple-choice questions on the 28th in order to get my AICP certification. To pass, one must get 115 of them correct. That’s as close as I can get.
Well THAT’S over with. I think it went well. The questions seemed much more straightforward than what they asked last sitting–hopefully the pass mark won’t be much higher.
I’m glad you think you did alright.
That’s good to hear. And now at least you don’t have to do any more study for a while.
Best feeling in the world, isn’t it? Glad to hear it went well. I think I’m in good shape for tomorrow, as long as it’s more like the spring offering than the ASM practice exams I’ve been taking.
How long until the exam results are released?
They should be out in mid-January.
Why aren’t you in bed? You have an exam tomorrow (today). 
I like ASM because they kick your ass, and then when you get to the real thing, it’s not so bad.
I just took my next-to-last CAS exam last Thursday. I well remember Course 4/C–it was just called Course 4 when I took it, and it was a full four hours. It’s the only exam, to date, that I’ve had to take three times. The level of math on that exam is the most advanced of any of the nine exams (on the P&C side), and it was a wee bit over my head. Since I got past that, it has been smoother sailing.
What he said.
And… I passed exam C!!! ultrafilter, Freddy, have you got your results yet? Either way I share in your glee or lamentations.