Think Spring 2012 MLC was Unfair?

[radoaos]

Will email soon. Need to calm down. I want to send a strong, but fair email. Basically the opposite of the test

[RanaEgypt]

Will email now and I think anybody who clicked on the "unfair" button should do the same thing!

[dfunkhou]

Originally Posted by ehezel

That's my concern as well - No idea how to prepare for next time. I've done poorly on plenty of exams before but typically my own fault. I studied hard for this and SOA spit in my face.

Yeah, that's where I'm at. Just frustrated with the exam I was given. I was expecting one particular exam (based on the SOA 300 and after reading AMLCR) and got something from left field. Additionally, the questions that I was prepared for were far too wordy and time intensive. Even for a prepared student there's no way a 6 min/prob pace could be achieved. And if you made any mistakes, you've wasted all your time crunching numbers that you can't spend any more troubleshooting your error.

This is my last prelim but my advice to another student - NEVER take an exam right after a syllabus change. Exam manuals have no idea what emphasis to put on the new material and the SOA's sample problems aren't any indication. The textbooks won't clue you in either. Who knows if the exam you studied for will be the exam you're given.

[StudyingIsFun]

dfunkhou,

I was wondering if the actual textbooks were more helpful, but it sounds like you felt AMLCR did not improve your edge over any of the other materials. Is that true?

[dfunkhou]

Originally Posted by StudyingIsFun

dfunkhou,

I was wondering if the actual textbooks were more helpful, but it sounds like you felt AMLCR did not improve your edge over any of the other materials. Is that true?

It's a good book to help you understand the material, but no it's not very useful for practicing problems. Most of their examples require numerical techniques to solve or are pages long. So if you already understand the concepts and are just looking for more practice problems (or another flavor of practice problems) then I don't think it'll be worth your time or money.

[mathrunnerchick]

I emailed the SOA and got a generic response. Let's hope they lower the pass score...

Thank you for your comments regarding Exam MLC. Your email has been forwarded to the exam committee for review. We will send you their response after the grades are released.

Education Staff

[egace]

Originally Posted by mathrunnerchick

I emailed the SOA and got a generic response. Let's hope they lower the pass score...

Thank you for your comments regarding Exam MLC. Your email has been forwarded to the exam committee for review. We will send you their response after the grades are released.

Education Staff

speaking of grade release date, have they announced it yet? early july?

[KLad24]

Originally Posted by egace

speaking of grade release date, have they announced it yet? early july?

I don't think they've released a concrete date yet, but my money's on July 6th for the candidate IDs and the 9th for the scores.

[DyalDragon]

Originally Posted by yashi911

Wow, Everyone think the exam was unfair. I dont think i've seen such a overwhelming negative response to an exam.

You think this is bad? take a peek over at the upper level CAS forums