Study - Day 1

[TheIllustratedActuary]

Just started studying today using TIA Online Seminar. Wondering if anyone who has taken the exam recently and used TIA can alert me to any potential short-comings of this approach, any areas you didn't feel prepared for, etc?

[glp]

TIA is good. It should all be there. The challenge (for me at least) is keeping it all (i.e 2200 pages) "top of mind".

I got a 5 on the April exam. No gaps in the TIA seminar material come to mind. I "scored" (i.e. the adjusted score) >3 on 11 of the 15 questions so it seems like I need to write a few extra comments/bullets per question. TIA covered the material, but I did not keep enough of it in my head and sufficiently spill it out on exam day.

Regarding my worst four questions; #4 & #5 (scored 3 on each), could've/should've done better. #15 was probably a gimmee question but I scored 1 (simply didn't study the illustration material the last week). I scored a 1 on #9. I'm surprised about my score on #9; eagerly awaiting the "solution".

There were about 30-36 points worth of calculation problems, I estimate I got over 80% of those points. Unfortunately the other 90 points required more writing than expected.

Hope this was helpful,
Good luck,

[TheIllustratedActuary]

Definitely helpful, thanks.

[TheIllustratedActuary]

By the way, when you studied, did you utilize notecards or the text books/study notes at all, or just TIA's material?

[glp]

I guess I used TIA material for 95% of my studying. I barely opened any of the source material. I borrowed a 2010 study manual but only used it for a second perspective on a few topics. I like outlines on 8.5x11 sheets better than notecards, so I stuck with TIA for notecard/outline material.

I failed the exam, so I am not a strong advocate of my method. Unfortunately, those who pass the exam usually don't come back to this forum; their advice would probably be more beneficial to you.