BA Practice Exams
Hi, I'm deciding which practice exams to take (without looking at them at all first), and I'm wondering about the BA practice exams. How difficult/easy are they compared to the released exams? Do they focus on a wide and shallow range of material? Wide and deep? Thank you!
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The BA practice exams are probably a little easier than the real exams so they are a good warmup for the real exams.
The reason I think the BA exams are a little easier is that the real CAS exams often include a few questions that are "creative" in the sense that they don't come directly from examples in the text. In contrast, the BA questions are based more closely on old exam problems and examples from the source text (which I think is more fair anyway) so if you are well-prepared, you should aim for a score of over 80% on the BA exams. This compares to a typical pass score of roughly 70% on the real CAS exam.
I made sure the BA exams cover the material broadly so the 2 practice exams together cover a high proportion of the testable material.
Make sure you cover the 2 new readings as well because I have a feeling those will be on the 2024-Fall exam and they should be easy points.
Great, thank you for the response!
Hi Graham, are the 2 new readings you're referring to here (last fall) the Cole-nuclear and hurricane readings? Or are there another 2 from last fall that they added as well?
Thanks.
The two new articles added to 6U syllabus in 2024 were:
"Nuclear Verdicts, Tort Liability, and Legislative Responses" by Cole and Marzen
"FHCF 2022 Annual Report" by the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF)