6 is handy if you are in reserving. Otherwise maybe clear that before you start clearing important birthdays in your head. 
Pop quiz: how often do you need to get your work peer reviewed if you are the āSigning Oneā?
Every 7 years
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Niceā¦ itās 3 yrs up here in Canada, seems like a pretty quick turnaround. 7 seems too long. 5 would be a good numberā¦ not that my opinion matters.
I just got through Mack '94. Yikes. The font of that paper made it feel like it took days to read.
I believe someone on the old outpost rewrote the whole paper making it a lot easier to read.
Ohh man, that would have been nice to haveā¦ Thanks DW Simpsonā¦
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Am I the only one not wanting to do things in excel at work if Pearson excel doesnāt allow it
You are not the only oneā¦
I refrain from f4, f2, copying part of the formula, using + sign to start a formulaā¦ itās painful, like wearing a speedo that is 2 size too small.
I think we should start a gofundme campaign to help Pearson to pay for the cost of upgrading their excel 3.2 to maybe excel 2010?
This is my first CBT exam. Is it really that bad?
They donāt allow you to do all the things Red mentioned in the pearson excel
I would check out the excel environment. If you google Pearson CAS CBT you should find it.
Itās not terrible per se. But definitely something you should get use to.
Thanks for the recommendation. I just took a sneak peak. Wow. This makes me so grateful for the keyboard shortcuts in Excel.
Sheesh, part A of the syllabus is just massive.
All related to reserving and yet they feel so disjointed.
Itās going to take a lot of memorizing. Some sections just make my head spin.
Howās everyoneās studying going?
Hoping to wrap up section A by the end of this week and start Section B.
My overall goal is to be done with the first run by some time mid-end February and start reviewing each section in depth while tackling problems.
I heard from somewhere this Exam has the biggest syllabus out of the three uppers but the exam isnāt as difficult compared to say Exam 8. I hope thatās true.
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I am trying to get through the syllabus by end of February. I am working on Shapland and Siewert this week. Reserving isnāt my favorite topic so I find a lot of this material dry and hard to get through.
This canāt be worse than 6?
Who would have guessed how much time weād be spending on Chain Ladder on an upper when we wrote 5?
Exams 7 through 9 are so much worse than 6.
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I took my first upper last sitting which was Exam 8. That really crushed me. Never got a score below a 5.
I passed Exam 6 in my first try so I can definitely agree at this point that uppers are much worse than 6.
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haha sorry I really meant in terms of ādrynessā. Definitely the materials are harder, but no where near as dry as 6C.
8 was the last exam I took - but about 4 years ago now - so I think getting back into studying has just seemed like a drag in general.