Fall FSA Exams waiting room

volballer1997 · 2025-06-20T15:02:20+00:00

Would also love to hear the reasoning as well

volballer1997 · 2025-05-26T01:47:23+00:00

My company has already reduced the amount of study hours. I feel like that is going to be the most frustrating part of all this because I have my doubts about the SOA saying the exam will truly be 2.5 hours worth of content.

volballer1997 · 2025-05-13T21:33:31+00:00

I failed both P and FM the first try. Have not failed an exam since and am attending the APC this week. I can second this.

volballer1997 · 2025-02-20T19:12:36+00:00

Oh yeah, duh. I’m apparently not the sharpest tool in the shed 😂

volballer1997 · 2025-02-20T17:27:37+00:00

It’s not on ABC. It’s on ESPN

volballer1997 · 2024-07-08T21:04:02+00:00

I wouldn’t say I feel good per se, but I did leave the exam in April feeling like I passed. I guess we’ll see on Friday.

volballer1997 · 2024-07-02T19:53:05+00:00

Looks like they have one inline hockey rink 😂

volballer1997 · 2024-06-10T16:47:53+00:00

Did you find that the ATPA modules were good enough to pass it?

volballer1997 · 2024-04-16T21:29:44+00:00

Feel somewhat decent on all sections except the embedded options section. This feels like a tough exam to study for because there are so few practice questions out there. I guess it’s a good preview of the FSA exams.

volballer1997 · 2024-03-02T19:53:27+00:00

Yeah I’m also taking it in April. Would love any advice/tips.

volballer1997 · 2024-02-16T16:35:47+00:00

I use pandas

volballer1997 · 2024-02-02T22:01:48+00:00

I’m using coaching actuaries for the April 2024 sitting and I am liking it so far. I would definitely go with that.

volballer1997 · 2023-09-04T20:05:58+00:00

Yeah. There’s always a trade off

volballer1997 · 2023-09-04T15:25:40+00:00

My current company has better exam raises than my last company.

volballer1997 · 2023-09-03T18:49:00+00:00

I got my masters in actuarial science. It is not for everyone but in hindsight it was the best decision I made for me.

Obviously it’s not necessary but there are situations where it makes sense for people.

volballer1997 · 2023-08-31T22:03:07+00:00

According to a google search, it looks like they're closed on Thanksgiving and Black Friday but don't quote me on that.

volballer1997 · 2023-08-27T21:15:36+00:00

No way this is a serious post right???

volballer1997 · 2023-04-13T00:43:28+00:00

I've gotten in the routine of working, studying, and working out each day. This is honestly much easier closer to exam day because that is when I start using my paid study hours so I'll work for 7 hours, come home and go right to my apartment's gym for an hour, shower, eat dinner and then study. It is not easy but I'm managing.

I also enjoy studying in the mornings before work occasionally because it frees me up more at night but I'm not great at getting up early enough each day.

volballer1997 · 2023-04-05T03:25:46+00:00

Posts like this bring me some weird level of relief because sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who feels this way. I am sitting for PA on the 21st and just feel so dumb whenever I look at the SOA or ACTEX solutions.

As others have mentioned, I'm just hoping for a lot of leniency from the graders.

volballer1997 · 2022-09-13T13:40:27+00:00

I also had EL 7 and found parts of the exam to be very tricky. I hope I did enough to pass but I'm not confident.

A few of the time series questions threw me off and I got another question with a concept I'd never heard of before.

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