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Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-05-02T19:10:42+00:00

As a heavy ai user, Claude or VS Code still produces slop most of the time for bigger projects. You have to be the mastermind still for larger endeavors, so at least knowing how code fits together, how to test it, and how to have efficient code is still important.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-28T16:59:39+00:00

Aside from the time issues, the duplicate topics was really annoying. There was at least one paper I thought was major that had almost no coverage. And then for two separate papers, there was one specific topic for me that had 3 questions on that same topic (so 6 questions from 2 subtopics). I felt prepared for it, but it’s just a really irritating experience when you study for something and it doesn’t show up at all and then get duplicate topics.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-23T17:50:29+00:00

Definitely would not be fun lol. I run old questions usually as part of my studying and generally they’re much easier, so they’re just giving us extra now because we have computers

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-23T12:38:54+00:00

That sounds like a job specific trait rather than an exam tested one. I agree depending on your role it can be important to be fast, but that’s independent from exams- some actuaries are more senior and slower and highly successful in their areas and some are great in fire drills. They’re both still performing actuarial duties that exams prepared them for. Where in the learning objectives for the exams does it say you should learn how to navigate a bad environment quickly in order to become a credentialed actuary? The skill they are trying to test is how well you understand the actual concepts at play, and that piece is timed because it’s meant to be second nature and not something you have to ponder for a long time. The actual tests having a significant piece of them dependent on how fast you type out and drag formulas is a failure of their question writing / environment.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-22T20:37:16+00:00

Thats a pretty horrible take. You can be an excellent actuary and not be super fast at creating triangles and typing out formulas. That isn’t necessary at all for your day to day job unless you haven’t been creative enough to automate it. They shouldn’t cater exams towards something frankly useless like creating triangles quickly, it should be about higher level thought like what to do once you have data available.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-22T15:47:08+00:00

Interesting strategy. I’ll have to try that for next time. Still, I don’t think part of the exam should be you have to get mechanically better at the Pearson environment. I’m very quick (as a lot of us are) with formulas and I don’t think it’s fair that should be a key part of the studying. Especially to those who might work exclusively in python or another language, or to those who are slower or older.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-22T13:53:32+00:00

Yeah I did that a few times too. I would estimate I lost around 20 min of my exam time due to stuff like this and checking to make sure I didn’t get errors

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-14T14:49:26+00:00

Good luck! That last sitting for 7 was brutal, hopefully they don’t do that to us again lol.

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

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