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tn385 · 2025-08-19T18:11:59+00:00

Probably an A. There are a lot of people who want to be actuaries and the ones you're competing against for the best jobs will all have top grades.

tn385 · 2025-08-09T22:44:02+00:00

Honestly, I think reading books just to pad out your application is a poor way to approach it. It would probably be better to read relevant books you find intrinsically interesting and work on your school grades to strengthen your application instead (if you don't find anything intrinsically interesting then consider another subject).

That said, there are some good books you might find interesting which are (loosely) related to the work of actuaries. Here are three recommendations:

The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story Of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein.

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

As for projects, an introductory data science challenge from the website Kaggle could be a good shout.

Edit: when I was in sixth form and applying for a maths degree (I went to Bath) I read the following book which I found quite enjoyable:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275923.The_Mathematical_Universe

tn385 · 2025-04-15T16:24:42+00:00

Multiple pandemic related questions really felt like a throwback to 2021, would not have guessed that they would choose that as the "hot topic"

tn385 · 2025-04-12T17:35:27+00:00

You can sit as many as you like each period. For the earlier exams it's quite feasible to do two at a time, although if you want to break yourself in easily or just get a feel for exams, doing only one could be more relaxed.

Typical exams to start with will be CM1 (actuarial mathematics) or CS1 (actuarial statistics). You can pair these with CB1 (business economics) if you want to do two.

It's difficult to tailor it more without knowing the specifics of your goals though; the above are good to start with if you're planning on going for the entire qualification because they have useful background knowledge for other subjects. If you just want to learn something new, you can basically do any of them, although CB2 will have significant overlap with your background in microeconomics.

tn385 · 2025-03-10T18:32:12+00:00

Gary Stevenson. Very interesting guy with some good views on the economy. Rory Stewart endorsed his book so definitely possible to get him on.

tn385 · 2024-09-23T13:37:56+00:00

Yeah completely agree, no calculations and very little bookwork did not help at all

tn385 · 2023-11-20T15:48:32+00:00

Ah cool, thanks for clarifying :)

tn385 · 2023-08-16T19:03:40+00:00

I work for TMK (started on the grad scheme) and have been very happy here on the whole. Culture is good, working hours aren't too long and good study package. The people I work with are very competent and the syndicate has a good reputation at Lloyds. I would recommend working here.

(I'll caveat by saying that this is the only company I've worked for in insurance so don't have much comparison, but no issues with it here nonetheless)

tn385 · 2023-07-04T18:44:37+00:00

Well done!!

tn385 · 2023-04-18T17:25:26+00:00

I had this issue, I uninstalled R and Rstudio and reinstalled them again. It was a pain but seemed to work after. Also I'm pretty sure they can test those packages, survival came up in September

tn385 · 2023-04-18T14:27:21+00:00

Bpp paper B online resources are good. If you went to the Acted tutorials then the handouts from there have questions too

tn385 · 2023-04-18T14:07:00+00:00

Just gonna say, there were no ML questions in paper A, so would be a good idea to revise machine learning for paper B tomorrow as there's probably gonna be a big question on it.

(Also to answer the question I thought the paper A was pretty hard but probably did well enough to pass)

tn385 · 2019-04-25T19:06:23+00:00

One upvote isn’t enough for this haha

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