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Old 04-12-2012, 06:39 PM
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Through the first 80 of TIA problems. Had 31 of them marked that I didn't know what I was doing. Got more than 31 wrong, just didn't count the ones where I knew what to do but messed up on the math.

Not doing them under any sort of time pressure, and looking at formulas when I need to.

Boy there sure is a lot of time til the exam...
Took me a while to get in the flow. Through the first 50 I only averaged 61% correct. From 50-160 I am averaging 77% correct.

Through first 3 ASM's got 65% right. I hope this is good enough so far with the new 67% pass mark.

I assume TIA 240 is easier than the real exam still, or maybe just not as much since the consensus was Feb 2012 was a tad easier than normal?
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Old 04-13-2012, 08:05 AM
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Took me a while to get in the flow. Through the first 50 I only averaged 61% correct. From 50-160 I am averaging 77% correct.

Through first 3 ASM's got 65% right. I hope this is good enough so far with the new 67% pass mark.

I assume TIA 240 is easier than the real exam still, or maybe just not as much since the consensus was Feb 2012 was a tad easier than normal?
I freaking hope TIA 240 is not easier than the real thing. Or I'm up a creek.
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Old 04-13-2012, 09:09 AM
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I haven't looked at the SOA 200-whatever problem set. Are the ones in TIA that came from past exams (of the [4.F04.24] variety) in the SOA problem set as well? My guess is yes, but just checking.

And if so I wonder why only some of the problems were taken from the SOA problems and not others...
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Old 04-13-2012, 09:12 AM
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Anybody having a problem with soa.org? It loads then quickly turns blank, so I can't access the released problems from work.

My guess is IE6 isn't supported anymore
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My guess is IE6 isn't supported anymore
Just stopped by to say that I thought my work's browser was terribly aweful using IE7. I feel your pain.
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Old 04-13-2012, 10:44 AM
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Anyone have an idea of what have recently been the main topics on this exam?
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Old 04-13-2012, 10:46 AM
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Anyone have an idea of what have recently been the main topics on this exam?
My Feb exam was loaded with Kaplan-Meier and Nelson Aalen questions.
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Anyone have an idea of what have recently been the main topics on this exam?
For what it's worth my exam in Feb. had an (a,b,1) fetish.
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Old 04-13-2012, 03:08 PM
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just signed up at prometric; didn't get the 24th like I wanted, but i'm scheduled for the 23rd. Marathon study session from now till then.
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Old 04-13-2012, 03:38 PM
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going back over the credibility questions....really need to get D.2 down. D.1 wasn't bad, I'm finding D.2 much harder to master.
D.2 is a beast, pretty much a full exam on credibility.
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