February 2019 Exam STAM Thread

[lcuandon]

With the holidays and all the time off work that comes with, and in conjunction with a bunch of PTO I have saved up, I am thinking of joining the fray on this one. I have studied the first section (Severity, Frequency, and Aggregate Models) a couple times now but had to bail every time due to bad MLC results. I am sure I can burn through that in a week. The rest is new but the STAM study schedule says its *not impossible*. What do you guys think as troops that have been in the trenches this entire time? It seems STAM is more 'mathy' and as an Applied Mathematics major, the seems more like my ish.

[avocado]

Originally Posted by The412Kid

Glad I can finally share this now that I’ve officially passed. I always like to hear about/see a detailed breakdown like this to guide my studying (even when using different materials), so hopefully this helps those of you who have started or will start studying for February STAM and are thinking about materials/study time/etc.

Thanks so much for sharing, and congrats on passing with a 10! I can never imagine myself to pass this exam with just 3 months of preparation...

[treecko09]

I am selling my STAM Manual. 100 USD. PM me.

[harb1sj]

Have been putting a lot of time in over the holiday; hopefully some others are doing the same! I also thoroughly enjoy the new layout of the CoachingActuaries LEARN platform. Online manual, followed by video lesson, sometimes followed by a practice question. Could possibly use more practice questions, but I guess that is what ADAPT is for.

[SirActSci]

I am working a problem on B-S credibility where policyholder 1 has 2 data points and policyholder 2 has 3. So it is not uniform, yet the problem went on to calculate mu as x bar and not the z weighted x-bar. Why is this?

[avocado]

I wonder if Coaching Actuaries team has collected feedback for this exam? I'm curious about:
- the exam's level of difficulty vs ADAPT
- exam pass rate at different earned levels
Thank you!

[avocado]

Originally Posted by SirActSci

I am working a problem on B-S credibility where policyholder 1 has 2 data points and policyholder 2 has 3. So it is not uniform, yet the problem went on to calculate mu as x bar and not the z weighted x-bar. Why is this?

I think more people would be able to help if you post the full question/ solution

[harb1sj]

Hoping to move on to ADAPT exams by Friday at the latest. My exam date is the 14th so that will give me about 3 weeks to bang those out... my goal is at least a 6.5 EL going into the exam. How is everyone else's progress now that it's crunch time?

[jts75]

Originally Posted by harb1sj

Hoping to move on to ADAPT exams by Friday at the latest. My exam date is the 14th so that will give me about 3 weeks to bang those out... my goal is at least a 6.5 EL going into the exam. How is everyone else's progress now that it's crunch time?

Sitting pretty comfortably at a 6 right now. I will do a few more ADAPT exams but mostly focus on the SOA sample problems since ADAPT uses quite a few of them anyways.

[terencechow]

Originally Posted by avocado

I wonder if Coaching Actuaries team has collected feedback for this exam? I'm curious about:
- the exam's level of difficulty vs ADAPT
- exam pass rate at different earned levels
Thank you!

Most people reported the real exam being closest to levels 5-6 exams in Adapt.

Here are the pass rates by EL based on our survey results for the Oct 2018 sitting:
0 to 4: 50%
4 to 5: 52%
5 to 6: 74%
6 to 7: 92%
7+: 92%