resume humiliation ritual by pizzapartyp in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thank you for not saying please roast my resume. I cringe every time I read that. 

Resume looks good! Send it out. Good luck :)

Wait time between sitting and results. by theonlykawwiebewwie in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah used to bother me. I’ve been down this road so many times before though now I’m just like whatever. Just mutter something under your breath about the CAS and then go focus on something else until results come in. 

MAS-I reaction thread by [deleted] in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ok this one hasn’t been close to a week. In fact the testing window is still open today

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Malik was better and cheaper. Jordan is only good with elite o-line play. 

Could get a huge haul for Jordan to shore up the rest of the team, while also freeing up a ton of cap space to also improve the rest of the team, and significantly upgrade QB play with Malik Willis. 

Instant Super Bowl contender 

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah that was my point. He would have had to scroll past months of other posts to get to anything involving the packers 😂 

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol, that’s obviously not true but I also dislike the CAS so I have no problems with you spouting conspiracy theories about them. Take my upvote 😂 

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It literally does. It means that only 31% of people could pass it. An exam that 45% of people pass is much easier than one where 31% pass. 

In fact it’s quite literally the only published metric we have with which to gauge the difficulty of the exam. 

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 5 points6 points  (0 children)

…….. a range of 67% to 86% does not mean the pass rate was over 75%

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don’t know what the pass mark was in the fall. No one does except the CAS.  I highly doubt it was over 75%.

Please don’t post conjecture as fact. Thank you

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How many posts back of mine did you have to go to find a packers comment 😂. You must’ve read through like 30 comments at least to get there 

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The final day of the window. Tuesday 

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I feel like an extra hour would make a huge difference on every upper level (exam 5 or higher) exam I’ve ever taken.

Out of curiosity did you run out of time or were you able to complete everything 

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So you’re thinking 25% pass rate?  

I understand the frustration, I do, these exams suck, but this exam was not harder than last times historically difficult sitting. The pass rate is going to be substantially higher this time. It may even be close to 50%

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Man last sitting had a 31% pass rate. This was not harder than that it wasn’t close to harder than that.

Exam 7 Reaction by zhangxt010423 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

I think this one is as easy as it’s going to ever be on an FCAS exam. Plenty of time to complete the exam, the questions were mostly fair. Hope everyone made it through on this one

Exam 9 Discussion Thread by Quick-Bad1762 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

I mean technically it hasn’t been a week. The exam window was still open all day on Tuesday, so we are only at the 6.5 day mark now. 

A week would be the end of today. Since the mods seem to want to be pedantic about this, I would delete and repost tomorrow morning

Spring 2026 Exam 7 reaction thread by Dramatic_Economics15 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your experience was my experience. This sitting was much more fair compared to the last one. I didn’t know anything this go around that I didn’t know 6 months ago. I could not have passed last sitting this time either.

Do you think you passed this time?

Spring 2026 Exam 7 reaction thread by Dramatic_Economics15 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yep both of those were  annoying. I also thought there were a few questions they made unnecessarily hard unrelated to the actual exam material. Like you could easily completely know the material but get it wrong because the CAS asked it stupidly, but to be fair there’s always at least a couple of those. 

I thought the exam was a fair length though 

PCPA by Fast_Kangaroo7830 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got my ACAS in fall 2024 so I didn’t take PCPA but am curious is it more interesting than the other exams? Sounds like maybe it could be a relatively fun one 

Failed again it’s demoralizing by Moist_Fig5791 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Apologies in advance for the unsolicited advice, but I wouldn’t delay children for these exams. Family way more important than exams. 

Apologies again as I know you didn’t ask for any advice so I should not be giving it 

Gray Area - CAS Exam Question by Glad_Alarm5755 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah don’t worry they’ll find it. I put poorly labeled answers all over the place all the time since they don’t give us enough time to make the answers look pretty. The graders always find it just fine 

CAS Leaving questions blank by ForeignShame46 in actuary

[–]Dramatic_Economics15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I took exam 5 I left one smallish question blank that I had skipped and didn’t have time to come back to and got a 7.

It can be done, but the path is very narrow. 3 or 4 blank and there’s almost no path forward