I wouldn’t say it was too hard. It was quite readable, although some of the derivations of formulae may need to be read through a few times. I haven’t tried any of the questions yet though.
I didn’t get a sense that not reading the MAS II mentioned text was a handicap but I wouldn’t mind reading it eventually when I get a bit more time.
Parts of it seem to be repetitive of the other GLM papers, but then it veers off into all kinds of ways to make calculations. My guess is that the 1st time around it’ll be high-level and calculation questions will be off pseudo-R^2, thereafter it gets to be more “everything is fair game.”
Reading Chalk now and it seems to be the most meandering paper I have read for an upper exam so far. It makes it much harder to read that it should be and I hoping that the CAS echoes the sentiment of everyone here where they ask basic questions the first time around.
He likes to weave?
This is why the CAS should just spin the GLM / predictive modeling stuff off to a new exam, have advanced rate making focus on … well, typical ratemaking topics.
Just an FYI, because the CAS explanation of how this works is woefully incorrect and incomplete:
If you need to cancel a sitting on or before the deadline, you don’t just send a request to the CAS via refund@casac.org to cancel your sitting. You have to:
Do you know where that is? No? Don’t worry, neither does anyone else because the CAS never explained it. Or, it did and no one remembers because it sent 55 other emails patting itself on the back for various things. It’s in the user portal, under Help - there’s one drop-down for My Cases, you go there and then Create a new case.
What if you need to attach the cancellation confirmation to the case? Well, gfy - there’s no “attach” functionality there, I guess you type everything out and hope that’s enough.