Wednesday, September 14, 2011

9/14/11 - T minus 63 days

I scheduled the exam for 11/16, so now we have a countdown!

I have been working through the book of Actuarial Brew practice questions. To me, these are the most helpful set of questions for the exam material. I have currently completed about 42% of the questions. so far, it had mostly been refreshing on stuff I already knew last time I took the exam. With 9 weeks to go, I am just getting to a place where I have to learn some new material. The new material is not coming easy so far, but in looking back through the blog it never did. I just have to keep pushing and pushing.

I also have done some work on the SOA sample questions. I don't like this set of questions as much, but am working through them for variety. I also like that TIA has video answers to most of the SOA samples. That is one thing that really helped me in previous exams - watching the video answers of questions I couldn't quite figure out. I find that is much more helpful than reading the answers and trying to make sense of them. I may have to incorporate some TIA end of lesson questions in for the topics I am struggling to learn. Last time I tried to use their questions for MFE I didn't really like them, but I think it is worth another look at this point.

The strategy from here is to keep plugging away at practice questions and adding new material to the "stuff I know" category. If I can get to 80-85% on the AB practice questions I will be pretty happy, lets see how that develops.