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Actuarial Science Career and Exam Advice for your Actuarial Journey

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  • Studying While Working

    When you’re in school, be it college or grad school, or even studying for your actuarial exams, you’re likely also trying to work and earn a living as well. Work, along with other activities in your life, such as spending time with friends and family, or your hobbies, can take up a lot of your…

  • Five Methods of Dealing with Overwhelm

    We all experience overwhelm in our lives. Whether it’s several things happening at once and we’re caught off guard, or we end up letting certain thoughts run rampant, that feeling of “Oh my gosh, there’s too much to deal with!” can be pretty powerful sometimes. But there are five specific things you can do to…

  • Build Unshakable Confidence For Exam Day

    We’re all familiar with the classic test day horror story. The story about the person that spends three hundred hours studying, enters the test room nervously to take the exam, encounters a question they can’t answer, and freezes up. They let one question sabotage the entire test. The only thing you need is hard work,…

  • 3 Crucial Studying Tips To Nail A Multiple Choice Exam

    Along your actuarial journey, there’s no doubt that you’re going to come across many multiple choice exams. When studying for these exams, most people tend to use an ineffective and unstructured approach. You will learn about unconventional yet extremely effective studying strategies for multiple choice exams . [Read More…]

  • Creating Your Personalized Study Roadmap—A Plan You Can Actually Stick To!

    Carving out time for both your studies and your personal time and not feel guilty about enjoying the latter, pretty challenging, but there exists a tool that can help you out. It’s called the Personalized Study Roadmap. [Read More…]

  • Three Key Assumptions That May Be Holding You Back From Passing Your Exams

    The actuarial profession is rife with assumptions. When you’re an actuary, you’re going to be using assumptions to assess risk, value future outcomes and put a price tag on that risk. However, there are three key assumptions you might likely make when it comes to passing your actuarial exams. [Read More…]

  • Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals For Your Effective Study Plan

    If you say, “I’m going to do a lot of problems,” okay, fine. But how many is a lot? Are you aiming for 10? 30? 50? 100? You get the idea.You want the winning approach instead: SMART goals. But what are SMART Goals? Learning what they are and how to apply them is the destination…

  • Three Reasons Why You Should Take More Study Breaks

    Have you ever had those times where you said, “I’m going to study for X amount of hours,” and you head to the library to try and make good on that self-promise? But then you find that after about an hour, your brain feels like mush, and a quick ten-minute trip over to Cheezburger.com for…

  • Start With You in Mind: Step 1 in Personalized Studying

    Two of the main reasons why studying often goes by the wayside are time and motivation—especially with all the other stuff that goes on in our lives. These are the two roadblocks you have faced, or will face, as an aspiring actuary, but you are not alone in this. This lesson, however, will help you…

  • Three Time-Saving Smartcuts to Maximize Your Studying

    Studying for exams is something that takes a lot of time to do. Here are some methods to maximize your time studying. [Read More…]