Any suggestions for what to use to study?

[kross1010]

I am going to start studying for the Ocotber exam probably in the next week or so and am wondering what are some good tools to use. I just passed exam P this past week and only used actex to study. Though I passed I found that while their book, Probability and Statistics with Applications, was helpful that their practice exams did not fully prepare me for the actual exam. I think that the practice exams contained a lot of basic problems that in no way helped for the real thing, so I was wondering what tools may be more suitable to help me pass the fm exam as well as later ones.

[Countingdown]

ASM or TIA are probably what most people will recommend. For FM I went with TIA and then did the ASM PEs. I always find it helpful to get a wide range of PEs, so that I have a broad range of types of questions and less chance of getting confused by the wording of questions on the actual exam. Also I recommend checking out Adapt, it is a great resource. Good luck!

[kross1010]

thanks so much for the help, I really appreciate it.

[TheGillotine]

I usually use TIA because I'm an auditory/visual learner.

[Fourier]

I used CoachingActuaries.com for my Exam P (that I just passed last week ), and will definitely be using it for the FM exam. Like 3 questions on the mock exam were nearly identical to the real thing! I failed the first time (just using ASM study manual), so Coaching Actuaries really helped the second time.

[clarinetist]

ASM and Coaching Actuaries all the way. The derivatives section in the ASM is amazing. It will definitely take you a long time to go through the whole ASM manual, though ('least it did for me), but it's extremely helpful.