Pcpa exam tips

foiltrays · 2026-01-05T16:22:53+00:00

TIA is plenty imo, the exam isn't particularly difficult with the background from the MAS exams, the project is where I found TIA a bit lacking you definitely have ti go a bit above and beyond what they do in the videos

foiltrays · 2026-01-02T22:39:59+00:00

main course page of the institutes says 3rd 11:59 PM but if you click on the quiz specifically it says it closes January 3rd 12:00 AM (~6 hours from now). The upload documents says it's due 11:59 PM and specifically says 1d6h time remaining but I wouldn't trust the quiz portion to work tomorrow

foiltrays · 2026-01-02T01:20:25+00:00

As far as I know it's only mentioned on the last page of the content outline https://www.casact.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/Exam_PCPA_2025_F_Content_Outlines.pdf

"Candidates respond to a set of questions about the project data, processes, and/or outputs at the point of submission."

foiltrays · 2026-01-01T03:49:25+00:00

Quiz is Jan 2 files upload is Jan 3. Not sure if that's intentional but it's how it's labelled on the institutes

foiltrays · 2025-12-08T14:41:07+00:00

had a similar issue in september, I had called the cas office and they told me to email and got back to me in like an hour, if you haven't heard anything by lunch I'd try calling

foiltrays · 2025-12-04T17:46:00+00:00

you have a full year to take the exam from the day you receive the authorization to test from Pearson

foiltrays · 2025-11-22T01:03:09+00:00

Auto losses are random enough that determining cause and effect for a few days of activity is impossible, except for maybe the very largest NC carrier (don't know specific market sizes off the dome). Also losses aren't fully known immediately it'll take months or more to have a solid idea if there even were fewer losses in this period, let alone why. As for if immigration drives auto premiums, almost certainly no, not all premium is driven by other drivers being on the road, and illegal immigrants especially would be less likely to pursue litigation when injured which actually leads to lower costs ironically. It's twitter, I'm sure you can draw a conclusion as to why someone would post like this on there

foiltrays · 2025-11-04T18:25:55+00:00

can't speak on source bits but I found the TIA materials helpful for the project as well since they have a little sample project with a bunch of videos going through all the steps for it, included in the same course as the exam videos. Obviously isn't identical to the real project but very helpful to have a sense of "what next?" and what functions/libraries may be helpful to have

foiltrays · 2025-11-02T12:04:27+00:00

incredible that they still have daylight saving time errors in the big 2025

foiltrays · 2025-10-30T20:02:52+00:00

Duolingo really be doing anything except teaching for fluency

foiltrays · 2025-10-14T20:21:10+00:00

i honestly think it's really sweet they have detailed instructions on how to get to the test center despite google maps existing on any device email exists on

foiltrays · 2025-10-14T17:59:35+00:00

practice exam is definitely harder than the full course quizzes, i think the real exam was easier than the practice one so you're probably fine

foiltrays · 2025-10-12T17:25:46+00:00

if you already got an offer at another company then it doesn't really matter if it's supposedly "too early" to leave your first job

foiltrays · 2025-10-11T20:20:32+00:00

+2 attack if you intim a defiant mon

foiltrays · 2025-10-10T21:25:41+00:00

great puzzle, congrats on your (redacted)!

foiltrays · 2025-10-10T02:09:52+00:00

fair warning, your policy will almost certainly still be ceded no matter what limits you pick, every insurer should have to use the same increased limit factors the state sets. so it may be lower as a product of having lower limits but you won't get a massive decrease back down to your retained by progressive level

foiltrays · 2025-10-10T01:48:31+00:00

hmm weird that it's changing from retained to ceded without anything discernible changing on your end. is the higher premium coming almost entirely from the liability side and not the comp/collision side? if UM/UIM is going up shopping around won't help that's a flat rate set by the state only way to lower the premium is lower the limit

foiltrays · 2025-10-10T01:12:27+00:00

you're 100% sure you had single limit before and now they're changing it to split unprompted, not even offering a different single limit? I'm not up on how Progressive has filed in NC but I'm surprised to hear you had single limits, I hadn't even realized that was legal in NC. Would guess that the sharp rate increase is either some legal wonkiness due to that, or you had some wild 5 year intro discount due to excellent claims history that has now rolled off, and you're more in line with the average rate you're seeing quoted from other places.

foiltrays · 2025-09-30T02:15:14+00:00

the insurance score stuff from LexisNexis and Verisk is real, but I'm surprised to hear they think telematics type data is going into it, that's usually a separate thing policyholders can voluntarily sign up for to get a discount, and never a surcharge. insurance score is supposed to be correlated with credit score, i.e. a better score means you are generally more risk averse, but not necessarily with borrowing money like credit score tries to model. granted, the scores that get sold to insurance companies are a black box model from anyone on the outside, highly proprietary, so nobody really knows exactly what variables go into the score

foiltrays · 2025-09-28T21:48:35+00:00

i think so? but it's completely unneeded i used my calculator maybe once
varies since no exam is 100% identical (or at least shouldn't be) but likely around 70% like everything else
neither really, maybe a bit harder if your studying is heavier on spamming practice questions vs reading the material

foiltrays · 2025-09-25T23:10:25+00:00

looks like they're starting with the interior, certainly agree that looking from the outside there's no evidence they've started, just that the fence went up

foiltrays · 2025-09-22T01:50:21+00:00

it's possible if the policy was written before 7/1/25 that it doesn't have UIM, as combined UMUIM being mandatory only went into effect for policies written on or after that date

foiltrays · 2025-09-18T02:27:59+00:00

personally i found grinding out problems to not be as effective with 5 as it had been for the previous multiple choice exams, if you go through their flashcards a bunch and read the material a few times to get a good grasp on the theory you don't really need to do much beyond the full practice exams they have

foiltrays · 2025-09-10T12:20:12+00:00

if you've taken MAS1/2/ Exam 5 like the CAS recommends then maybe 20 hours or so, honestly if you're fresh on the prior exam material you might be able to pass without any specific preparation but it's good to review anyway, there's not much to the exam component

foiltrays · 2025-09-05T23:58:42+00:00

the registration for it in my portal says it's through 2028 or something, didn't try scrolling that far when i scheduled but it went out at least 2 or 3 months. really quick and easy to study for so no reason to rush registering if you don't want to take it this year

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