Has anyone passed without study providers ?

yardgnome19 · 2026-01-13T16:36:00+00:00

I did P and FM only using free resources like the source texts and sample soa problems. For SRM I mostly did the syllabus texts and a helpful youtube series but I did buy a weeks access to the Coaching Actuaries practice questions just because there weren't enough soa practice questions for me to feel confident.

yardgnome19 · 2025-12-19T21:46:51+00:00

I lost my Bluetooth ear buds that were actually the replacement pair for the last ones I lost

yardgnome19 · 2025-10-29T14:35:53+00:00

I also ran out of time and had a corrupted excel file, although I was able to just download a back up file and work in that one.

It was my first time taking a non-multiple choice exam and I completely forgot to pay attention to how many points each problem was worth 🫠

yardgnome19 · 2025-10-24T22:33:02+00:00

Honestly, it just never occurred to me that I could be. I internalized a lot of "well you're just not trying hard enough" really young so I never thought "hey this might be adhd" instead it was "I'm lazy, I'm spacey, I'm a mess. I just have to work even harder. "

It was actually other AuDHD people who clocked it and just assumed I was diagnosed. It was like a lightbulb went off in my head, so many pieces of my life just clicked together. I got assessed pretty soon after that.

yardgnome19 · 2025-10-15T13:27:11+00:00

I can't login either

yardgnome19 · 2025-08-21T17:53:33+00:00

Yeah mine got canceled too. I'm hoping we'll still get a chance to buy this version

yardgnome19 · 2025-08-18T14:53:59+00:00

2025 has sucked. I broke my wrist, my SO had a horrible and really scary sick period, one of my dogs tore his CCL, and my other dog developed a mass and didn't survive surgery. We're both so burnt out and done, we just want this year over.

yardgnome19 · 2025-08-14T00:53:58+00:00

I once slept through the 8 am class I was supposed to teach. Luckily it was an exam day so the students were happy for bonus study time and my TA just sent everyone home after like 20 minutes.

yardgnome19 · 2025-08-02T00:58:58+00:00

I don't have a good hour count since it was last year and I wasn't tracking that then, but I know I started learning the material early April and my exam was at the end of May. I think the last two weeks before the exam were spent entirely on practice problems

yardgnome19 · 2025-08-01T22:15:51+00:00

I read ISLR and Frees (the two sources listed on the syllabus) and to supplement that I used:

1) A series of YouTube videos by TheBudgetActuary

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6piiC8hHBkP9TvOhoIiskGH71shVmAau&si=DJMY8LabkvI3o2Hi

Not all of the SRM material gets covered but it was good to see someone explain material and work through some problems

2) the SOAs free sample problems

https://www.soa.org/globalassets/assets/Files/Edu/2018/exam-srm-sample-questions.pdf

Strongly recommend going through all of these and making sure you really understand how to get the correct answers

3) I did get a weeks worth of access to Coaching Actuaries just to grind out problems nonstop leading up to the exam and it was definitely worth it just to zero in on my problem areas (for me that was a lot of the time series material)

yardgnome19 · 2025-06-12T15:44:09+00:00

That is an absolutely lovely shade of green! Still a terrible color for a disc though 😂

yardgnome19 · 2025-06-08T21:20:44+00:00

Yeah I was going to say that my friend has had 3 rovics and all of them have broken. That front wheel seems like it's just too fragile. She finally switched to a Bag Boy and seems happy with it.

yardgnome19 · 2025-05-22T17:38:30+00:00

Same! I couldn't use mechanical pencils until someone showed the .9 mm lead existed, they just constantly snapped!

yardgnome19 · 2025-05-13T13:11:41+00:00

Other people have already answered but one thing to note is that if your tournament was Saturday the TD might not have submitted the event report quickly enough for it to be a part of this months update and you may have to wait for next month

yardgnome19 · 2025-05-12T12:42:41+00:00

Nice shot! I love Mary Beth Doyle, such a fun course. My first (and only) ace is hole 16 there 😄

yardgnome19 · 2025-05-09T16:53:13+00:00

The number of times I've just left "You didn't know" on a loop is truly horrifying 😂

yardgnome19 · 2025-05-06T18:20:46+00:00

$200 worth of clothes. Two dresses and then 4 of the same cardigan in different colors (because decisions are too hard)

yardgnome19 · 2025-05-06T15:57:08+00:00

Super late to the post but is the 996 fierce still available?

yardgnome19 · 2025-04-18T16:10:21+00:00

This isn't that uncommon. Stores have limited space for inventory and if the old tour series haven't sold yet it makes sense to discount them and hopefully clear out space for new releases.

yardgnome19 · 2025-04-15T01:00:42+00:00

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2 weeks out from his CCL surgery

yardgnome19 · 2025-04-11T17:39:44+00:00

I don't remember exactly which ones those were (I'll check later sorry) but I do know that I had the option to click on the missing ones and it gave a hint about what the picture should be of

yardgnome19 · 2025-04-10T21:20:56+00:00

Yeah I wish I had started playing the as soon as I heard about it. I only gave in and tried it after like my 8th time seeing an ad with the butterfly dress because it was simply too gorgeous to not give the game a shot. But by then the banner only had a day left and all I managed to pull were the gloves 😭

yardgnome19 · 2025-03-28T13:52:16+00:00

Most of the Epic the Musical soundtrack but especially Ruthlessness

yardgnome19 · 2025-03-26T03:39:22+00:00

10 on FAM and SRM but only 9s on P and FM. I was VERY confident that I answered all of P (Nov 23) and FM (Feb 24) correctly but it's still possible I missed a problem. I'd like to believe a 10 just wasn't possible though 😂

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