May 2010 discussion

[jesusislord]

so i guess we can discuss the exam now? what were your thoughts. i liked being able to preview the exam before it started. i started to look at all the questions and was even more confident. the exam was super ez imo.

[spencerhs5]

Originally Posted by jesusislord

the exam was super ez imo.

unfortunately i agree with you MUCH easier than last sitting, i figure pass mark around 29. I answered all 25 but was iffy on a handful. at least as far as i could tell there were no defective questions although the markov about hurricane/thunderstorm/tropical storm i swore was defective for about 20 minutes,

[bcm16]

I felt pretty good about most of the exam but one thing keeps bugging me. There was a non homogeneous Markov question, and the top row of the last matrix didn't add to 1...

[jesusislord]

i thought that question was st8 forward, the answer was 1156? the question with the decrement in the middle of the year and the payments at the end was crazy. it didnt say where it was udd or what. i just left it alone.

[aorl]

Very manageable exam. I think last sitting was the only iteration I've seen that could be described otherwise, though.

I counted:
6 statistics
5 survival
0 insurance
1 annuity
1 premium
1 reserve
2 multi-life
2 multi-decrement
4 Markov
3 Poisson

[jesusislord]

Originally Posted by bcm16

I felt pretty good about most of the exam but one thing keeps bugging me. There was a non homogeneous Markov question, and the top row of the last matrix didn't add to 1...

i am not sure which 1 this is, i thought all the markov questions were pretty good. i think there were 3, the actuary question, the credit question and the hurricane question.

[jesusislord]

i skipped every single poisson. and i really like poisson questions. none were completely st8 forward.

[jesusislord]

im upset at there being no regression or f-stats.

[jesusislord]

i liked the question on the 10 year annuity certain/life question. had a nice little twist.

[jesusislord]

almost all the life con questions were so st8 forward it was ridiculous.