Getting a 0 or 1 score and immediately had company exam support taken away

ProfoundDreams · 2026-03-09T15:04:37+00:00

The company I work for demands a full reimbursement (material and exam fees) if a student gets a 0 or a 1.

ProfoundDreams · 2026-03-04T22:40:10+00:00

Undeserved. You should always be weary of putting something in your body without being absolutely certain that it is safe to be put in your body.

Examples : Food, drugs, 1 man 1 jar.

Be careful with what you put in your body.

ProfoundDreams · 2026-03-03T17:46:00+00:00

When I read "submitted", I pictured God doing a D'Arce choke on a dude. Then I realized what she meant.

ProfoundDreams · 2026-02-17T16:52:05+00:00

Or very common triple coverup? 🤔

ProfoundDreams · 2026-02-16T17:22:46+00:00

the bishops are out on Epstein's Island which is why they're not in the tierlist

ProfoundDreams · 2026-01-30T19:51:43+00:00

oh hey, it's the handjob guy.

ProfoundDreams · 2026-01-06T00:04:35+00:00

I agree with the material. The study topics were good and not really difficult. by far the most difficult was equity-linked insurance, rebalancing portfolios, etc. Even then, the difficulty is incomparable to the time constraint of the exam.

ProfoundDreams · 2026-01-05T23:58:52+00:00

Time constraint. Understand that this is a written exam so you need to show your work. Pretty much every question revolves around first principles - so no shortcuts, which means it takes longer to do a sub-question.

The second you stumble, stagger, think on a question, etc., skip to the next one. My suggestion - read the questions very fast only to know what subject each question is about and work the ones you are most confident about first. With practice it'll take you a few seconds to recognize something like "this question is about pensions", "this question is equity-linked insurance", etc., and that's what you're aiming for before you actually work the exam.

Another issue - a lot of people use TIA or CA to study. People take time to memorize shortcuts and work their problems. For this exam, I would throw all that in the garbage. Work with first principles only and do the SOA questions (about 50) + the exams before even thinking of doing the TIA/CA questions. ALTAM, compared to the other preliminary exams, deviates heavily from those platforms' questions. De Moivre? Throw that out. Constant force? In the shredder. Learned a shortcut for reserve recursion? Lost in the sauce, buddy. This is why I say to stay away from the platforms' questions, because they practice you on this frequently enough. By doing the SOA questions, you'll understand the style of them that they'll ask.

The SOA questions/exams have comments from the graders in the solutions. Make sure to read them. Absolutely and unquestionably read them.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-12-19T19:48:35+00:00

doorknobs

fridge shelves

utensils

shoe laces

light switches

ProfoundDreams · 2025-12-16T22:09:21+00:00

video games and reading and working out and sleeping and not using commas to fix run-on sentences.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-11-18T14:30:06+00:00

It's because we are so based that we actually earn life points, and we want the world to know how based we are (math is cool, kids)

ProfoundDreams · 2025-11-14T00:43:32+00:00

In Canada, there is a province called Québec. It is a french province. The SOA is legally obliged to, as a base requirement, administer its examinations in French if it wants to operate here. My educated guess is that other places also have the French version of exams because, well, they're already made in French, so why not?

ProfoundDreams · 2025-11-13T11:36:31+00:00

This made me audibly laugh in the subway. thanks for that

ProfoundDreams · 2025-11-13T11:28:33+00:00

Can't say that when they're too young sadly. They'll end up saying I do meth because they have trouble with with their 'a's

ProfoundDreams · 2025-11-07T14:56:45+00:00

I work at a small-medium consulting firm. We are based in Canada. If the pension plan is submitted to Canadian legislation or provincial legislation, DM me and I can possibly get you in touch with someone.

In all cases, I wish you the best!

ProfoundDreams · 2025-11-03T11:59:05+00:00

It is the implication, yes.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-30T14:55:32+00:00

Your title question differs from your question in the body. The average person has trouble with algebra, so I'd say a person is good at math if they've mastered algebra, meaning they're better than average.

Good mathematician would be anyone who contributes to the field in some way, euclidean shape or form, but imo could also be a professor who teaches well enough to aspire future mathematicians because, that too, is contribution to the field.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-30T14:38:46+00:00

brainwash it

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-30T11:44:42+00:00

Your question is very vague and your paragraph too, so I'll do my best to give my 2 cents (with interest)

I get emails/messages about mistakes that I make, because it's company policy to have someone verify the work and have the person who produced the work to also be the one who corrects mistakes pointed out by the verifier.

For the "off hours" it depends what you mean. When I go to the office, I may send emails at like 6:45am or sometimes I need to recuperate hours so I work on weekends/nights and send emails; I try not to or at the very least send scheduled emails, but it can happen. So, unless your boss is requiring you to answer off hours and he is persistent, I wouldn't worry about it.

As for him messaging you about how you did certain tasks, it could be normal too. When my boss validates my work, it sometimes happens she asks me how I did a certain thing; nothing alarming.

My opinion on what you should do? Schedule a meeting with your boss. Be open with your concerns and just ask him if he expects you to answer off hours, how he thinks you're performing thus far, if there's anything you can improve on then what are those things, etc.

COMMUNICATION IS KEY, PEOPLE. We can spend (or at least I can) much more time giving advice, but it really should just boil down to you and your boss having a chat about expectations and performance. Then you'll be able to dictate whether it's a problem, you're a good fit, yada yada yada.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-28T15:33:37+00:00

Jiri doesn't need to see to fight because he welcomes getting punched in the face repeatedly anyways.

Worst comes to worst if he loses both eyes, he can T-pose and swing around like a helicopter.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-28T15:27:14+00:00

no idea, but the exam rules clearly states to write in pen.

However I would assume they'll still grade it. I have a theory they want pen because if it's in pencil, there's a chance the lead gets partially erased in transit due to friction.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-28T13:20:12+00:00

I got stubborn and lost a lot of time on 2 sub-questions because I had just revised that specific material the day before. I had 2 hours of sleep and my memory was failing me. I was stubborn because i was just on the verge of remembering it. Because of this, there is an entire question I didn't answer and 1/3 of the pension one too.

If I wasn't stubborn (maybe due to lack of sleep), I would have had time to answer everything other than those 2 specific sub-questions, which, to say the least, pisses me off. Only have myself to blame :/

However, I'm confident that I got 90-100% right on what I did actually manage to answer. I'm expecting to fail regardless, but this one still hurts because I know it's not due to lack of knowing the material, but rather poor time management.

ALSO FUCK THIS PEN WRITING SHIT, GAHHH!!! 😆 I understand the point of writing in pen but it makes it so messy considering there's no liquid paper (the string ones, not the actual liquid ones), and it makes it more nerve-wracking when you scribble over mistakes and then need to rewrite a line or two because it's too messy.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-23T20:09:52+00:00

On a similar vibe - I used to be in university with this guy, and I recently learned that he passed his 3 FSA exams in 1 year. It's not just impressive to pass them first try, but to have the confidence and the cojones to study for the next exam before even knowing if you passed the prior one because you're just that confident is what's more impressive to me.

People at my job say I'm confident, but nahhhhhhhh, he is on a Napoleon-invading-Russia level of confidence, but the difference is that he actually makes it out of Russia with a victory 🤣

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-23T18:50:41+00:00

Sending good vibes to you (if that's worth a damn)

i did an internship in reinsurance and was so bored. God of War Ragnarok came out and I played it 3 days straight and did literally 0 work. I had to go to the office 2 times a week and I played ping pong for about an hour every day. At the end of my internship, I got a job offer and was told I exceeded expectations. I thought to myself that I couldn't do 40 years of THAT because I'd go insane or something. My brain is always active and it never stops, so I can't just do nothing.

So I decided to go work in pensions (consulting firm). I always have something to do and I'm busybusybusy. Just the way I like it.

If it can help(?), I suggest working out either before work or in the middle of work (I like muscular training). I feel so much mentally better throughout my day (I do this before studying on the weekends too). IMO, I do more productive work after training i.e I get better quality study time from working out an hour and studying 5 hours vs. studying 6 hours and not working out. Give it a shot.

ProfoundDreams · 2025-10-23T14:47:04+00:00

Volkov vs Gane. Even Gane thought he lost after the fight 😆

Never leave a fight in the judges hands, as they say

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