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[intelmic]

P and FM both passed on both first sittings

[cyc]

Congrats!!!!!!!!!

[EmptyNester]

That is awesome!

[HenryGale]

Originally Posted by intelmic

P and FM both passed on both first sittings

same here, but i am not as excited as 2 weeks ago when i learned i passes P -- i was so sure i failed P, but for fm, i knew the only chance of not passing is that all my answers were filled one row off, which didn't happen as seen from the result

[bdonkersgoed]

Originally Posted by intelmic

P and FM both passed on both first sittings

Congrats! Are you a Laval or Concordia student? Just curious

[xiaoyu]

SAME HERE!!!

Soooo happy to pass both P&FM in my first sittings before entering my 3rd year in undergraduate,

one more step closer to asa, but still a long way to go..

[emuactuary]

I am happy for you guys. It's the best feeling in the world when you pass an exam.

But you might want to think about how many exams you pass before you actually get a job. I don't know if you are from Canada or the US, because there is a big difference in the number of exams people usually have when they get out of school. But in the US having to many exams is not always that good of a thing.

I am currently doing an internship and will be a senior this year and have also passed the first two exams. When I got my results for exam two I told my managers. And they were really happy for me, but they also said that you have to be careful and not have to many exams, because a lot of companies wont give you the pay that you expect to get with that many exams. And it makes sense in my opinion because if you are an ASA out of college they are not going to pay you what they pay someone who has been there a while.

On the other hand you will get most of you exams out of the way before you actually start working. Which is awsome, because as I have come to find out it's difficult to study after work. I am currently studying for 3. This is just general information.It's not ment to discourage anyone from trying their best, because as you can see from the reading I am studing still studing for 3, which I plan to take in november.

[GosuJohn]

Originally Posted by emuactuary

I am happy for you guys. It's the best feeling in the world when you pass an exam.

But you might want to think about how many exams you pass before you actually get a job. I don't know if you are from Canada or the US, because there is a big difference in the number of exams people usually have when they get out of school. But in the US having to many exams is not always that good of a thing.

I am currently doing an internship and will be a senior this year and have also passed the first two exams. When I got my results for exam two I told my managers. And they were really happy for me, but they also said that you have to be careful and not have to many exams, because a lot of companies wont give you the pay that you expect to get with that many exams. And it makes sense in my opinion because if you are an ASA out of college they are not going to pay you what they pay someone who has been there a while.

On the other hand you will get most of you exams out of the way before you actually start working. Which is awsome, because as I have come to find out it's difficult to study after work. I am currently studying for 3. This is just general information.It's not ment to discourage anyone from trying their best, because as you can see from the reading I am studing still studing for 3, which I plan to take in november.

Ill sum that last post up, "Pass as many exams as possible."

[HenryGale]

Somehow I heard different stories: For preliminary exams, the more you pass the more advantage you have in job-searching. The company will have to pay for your study expenses, certain number of study time, which are comparable to what they pay difference they will have to give you if you have passed that exam. However, since I am not working yet and I've only got 2 passed very very recently, I don't have any personal experience to share here.

[SirVLCIV]

My personal philosophy - pass as many as you can while in school. I'm entering what is going to turn out to be the easiest semester in my undergraduate education (corporate finance, marketing, principles of management, 100 level CS, you get it), so I'm gearing up for a gung-ho, finish the preliminaries stretch. I'm interning, and I can tell, from speaking with co-workers, if you wait until you're working full-time, you just might find it harder and harder to get the free time (and effort) to work toward the exams.

Sure, I might send my résumé to a few companies who don't even bother to contact me, because they assume I'll ask for too much $$, and I won't get paid for 4 exams 4 years experience, but just being able to finish the exams sooner, and not have them be part of my life when I'm in my 30s is a benefit (and the salary will eventually adjust to market value, so I'm not worried at all about that). (And everything seems like the company I'm interning at will make me a competitive offer on graduation anyway).