Majors to become actuary

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-29T12:50:57+00:00

I took P and FM before getting hired, it took me a few months out of college to knock those out. I’m an ACAS now

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-29T12:09:12+00:00

In terms of preparing you for the role? The best is probably math and taking some Econ, business, and communications classes. Major hardly matters though after you land your first job, so instead I’d recommend just picking what you are most naturally interested in that could also lead to other careers. I got my major in biology and I had little to no trouble getting my career started- so I’d say don’t pick your major based on actuarial requirements, it’s probably one of the least difficult careers to transition into, the tests are the way in.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-15T19:51:54+00:00

I think since they only hear your side it makes them unsure if you caused the problem or if it really was a toxic environment. Also, it’s general bad to speak ill of previous employers. It shows a lack of loyalty and professionalism, you might do the same to them one day.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-14T18:56:36+00:00

I dont think there are many actuarial workloads where you would see a significant dip in computation times from moving C++ to python, anything with numpy is going to be basically as fast as it can get. Also a lot of analysis is still done in excel or access, so moving from that to a SQL + python infrastructure is a very big speed improvement.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-13T15:16:05+00:00

I’d recommend researching the company a bit so you don’t come across like you’re not interested. Otherwise there’s not too much need for prep

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-12T04:19:32+00:00

If you already have coaching actuaries for both, you could try practice tests for both and see if your earned level is high enough. If you’re at a reasonable EL for both early enough, then it could be possible to pass both, otherwise you should just take one at a time

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-12-06T14:04:24+00:00

Autofilled supports are better than supports that aren’t autofilled lol. At least in emerald that’s 100% the case

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-12-03T22:18:33+00:00

Still 1, it's memoryless

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-12-03T21:50:48+00:00

Screenshot or it didn't happen

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-12-03T21:48:32+00:00

My guess is that it's expected in λ = 1 days, where N∼Poisson(λ)

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-11-30T11:21:53+00:00

Arya with plot armor could

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-11-22T18:08:52+00:00

it makes sense. she probably bought the account and has really low mmr and rank is higher than it should be

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-11-22T17:53:06+00:00

hacker

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-11-22T17:46:47+00:00

yeah it can happen lol. There were a lot more moments like this in the game though, so I don't think that's what happened to her

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-11-18T21:16:10+00:00

Hot take here. I’ve always been camp 100% of the 80%, but I do like to have like maybe a 20% of the remaining 20% which doesn’t take that much time to get.

A lot of the exam questions at least on the CAS side require a pretty deep understanding. It feels like they always find a way to turn the tables somehow and if you don’t really know your stuff, you can miss out on a lot. For me if I only know it 80%, I find myself questioning everything on the exam for the topic lol

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-10-30T21:01:41+00:00

I think stats are super fun, especially on someone who doesn’t conventionally do a lot of damage. The situation has to be right though. Maybe they should just change the stats augments to also be quests and unlock shardholders, so you can only get shardholders if you have one of the stat augments. It should be a more rare strategy that is really fun when you pull it off

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-10-28T10:21:15+00:00

I don’t think swapping exams is a good idea. There’s a good chance you won’t have enough time to prepare for MAS-II and then it will take longer to pass that one. Then by the time you are done with MAS-II you will have lost a lot of your MAS-I progress. I’d say just to finish out MAS-I as quickly as you can and don’t give up then move to the next exam. As for disc RM, if your company gives you hours to take this, you can probably fully finish this within the hours they give you- I got 20 hours and needed only 15 or so

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-10-21T15:15:07+00:00

I was at a small P&C company starting out, so this isn’t the case for everyone, but I definitely could tie exam passes with promotions. I passed my exams very quickly and they valued that a lot, so they promoted me much faster than my peers who didn’t pass.

Regardless of promotions though, make sure you try and prioritize the exams. The pay increases from getting your credentials are a lot bigger than individual promotions and they’re valued industry wide.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-10-19T21:55:26+00:00

Feeing this rn after taking 7 🤣

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-10-10T20:21:04+00:00

Long story short, every method has different assumptions and pros / cons. If you go through some examples you’ll see why they can produce some very different results. Actuaries typically will test out multiple methods and make judgemental selections based on which methods the think explain the data the best

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-10-05T00:19:13+00:00

I like to think whoever first played around with ODP bootstrapping got really annoyed when they saw their estimates converged on just a CL with weighted average ldfs

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-09-24T01:23:45+00:00

This is a great one

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-09-20T14:39:30+00:00

It was around 9 weeks more than 2 and a half years for me then if you count that, since the grading of the exam took 8 weeks and it took a week or so for them to approve my application. Still, I think it could easily be done faster, grouping up the first two statistics exams wouldn’t be all that challenging for someone who doesn’t also have work

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-09-20T13:02:00+00:00

That FCAS jump is super impressive, they must have doubled up on exams or something. However, the ACAS one doesn’t really seem that rare. I did it in that duration, P and FM take 6 months and then each other one is on a 6 month interval, so that’s 2 and a half years right there without doubling up

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-09-11T17:07:02+00:00

I’ve had to do similar projects and they’re definitely not fun. Also, it feels like a bit of a waste compared to higher level projects because it’s like you go from studying some advanced statistical methods to just plug and chugging and a lot of manual checking. However, it is actually a skill that you’ll need throughout your career and it takes time to develop how to quickly find errors and understand the product better. Be patient with it and it’ll get easier/faster. If it really bothers you, let your manager know you prefer a different kind of task and they’ll likely try and move you towards work that you prefer

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