2022 Exam 7 Progress Thread

Red · February 11, 2022, 2:13am

Anyone know how to integrate x/((exp(X)-1) from 0 to a? (The Kendall Tau of Frank)

Also, best luck with your baby @ALivelySedative !

actuarialED · February 11, 2022, 2:20pm

I’m pretty sure you have to do integration by parts

Red · February 11, 2022, 2:49pm

Well, I am really hoping for no integration questions on the exam… kinda sucks to solve something on excel.

alm · February 11, 2022, 5:20pm

If the paper doesn’t show the integration, are you expected to know it?

act_123 · February 11, 2022, 7:16pm

Pretty sure those all have logical transforms to make them easily solvable.

MichaelScarn · February 14, 2022, 1:15am

How is everyone else’s progress going? Anyone thinking about attempting a PE beginning of March?

WhenFCAS · February 14, 2022, 5:33am

Studying is going alright. I won’t be able to do practice exams until April.
Doing my second run of the manual and doing all questions after each chapter.

alm · February 15, 2022, 1:19pm

I am still waiting on my study kit for Brehm. Hoping it gets delivered this week. I am shooting for Practice Exams throughout April. Using March the same as @WhenFCAS .

Red · February 15, 2022, 5:07pm

The thing I really don’t like about Brehm is that it mentioned but never explained a lot of the heavy math stuff. Then I am not sure if I am suppose to memorize the formula or should know how to apply it? Since the text mention it it’s probably fair games for a question to be written about it? Like the exponential moment marginal distribution.

alm · February 18, 2022, 7:40pm

Maybe I haven’t seen enough past exam problems but Goldfarb is not very intimidating.

MichaelScarn · February 18, 2022, 7:46pm

What do people think about discounted reserves from the Clark paper? ROI of learning this seems low since it seems unlikely to be tested but again… I’ve been wrong before.

alm · February 18, 2022, 8:15pm

I have it in my notes and formula sheet - since it is just two formulas I will probably memorize it just in case.

Red · February 19, 2022, 2:29am

The discounting of reserve should be straight forward right? it’s essentially a NPV calculation?

actuarialED · February 23, 2022, 1:29am

This exam is so miserable. If I put in half the energy I spent worrying about results studying I’d get a 10

Red · February 23, 2022, 1:57am

if it’s any consolation, all exams are equally miserable.

actuarialED · February 23, 2022, 2:05am

I expect them to grade in 4 weeks this time

actuarialED · February 23, 2022, 2:07am

Yes they don’t even really test the material anymore. Just random general knowledge on the IQs

MichaelScarn · February 23, 2022, 2:14am

Speaking of IQ’s, what is people’s strategies to handle them for this sitting? From what I’ve heard/seen, the IQ’s are insane for this exam.

actuarialED · February 23, 2022, 2:15am

I wait till the 2nd or 3rd hour

Red · February 23, 2022, 2:17am

IQ is CAS’s way of teaching candidates shit happens in life and you just gonna take it, and trying to make it work.