Refresh = Reframe
My idea is to push the need to reinforce important topics by showing how syllabus items build on one another (without myopically addressing areas they pulled out of an actuarial back alley for this spring's sitting).
For anyone else out there who's finding motivation hard (and maybe some overzealous first-timers who haven't been trapped as long in this maze known as Exam 6), I thought I'd share an alternate path to the material. Would certainly welcome any structural suggestions, a diagram (such as this site stopped short of doing with their color-coded readings index) as well as how this connects to individual readings
This version organizes the syllabus into a logical flow from foundational principles to regulatory and actuarial responses, with a clear focus on how actuaries assess and communicate financial statement risk.
Primer: accounting
0. Statement of Actuarial Opinion (SAO)
1. Government Intervention: Market Regulation
2. Actuarial Disclosures
3. Government Participation in Insurance
4. Government Oversight (rate regulation)
Note that McCarran-Ferguson, SEUA et al can all be neatly condensed into a bullet within this final section
For anyone else out there who's finding motivation hard (and maybe some overzealous first-timers who haven't been trapped as long in this maze known as Exam 6), I thought I'd share an alternate path to the material. Would certainly welcome any structural suggestions, a diagram (such as this site stopped short of doing with their color-coded readings index) as well as how this connects to individual readings
This version organizes the syllabus into a logical flow from foundational principles to regulatory and actuarial responses, with a clear focus on how actuaries assess and communicate financial statement risk.
Primer: accounting
0. Statement of Actuarial Opinion (SAO)
1. Government Intervention: Market Regulation
2. Actuarial Disclosures
3. Government Participation in Insurance
4. Government Oversight (rate regulation)
Note that McCarran-Ferguson, SEUA et al can all be neatly condensed into a bullet within this final section
Comments
Would this correspond to some sort of alternate ordering for the readings?
For Exam 6-Canada, I recently changed the way the Ranking Table looks, but a big part of the reason for that is the Canadian exam content has changed much more than the U.S. exam so most of the old exam questions aren't relevant anymore. And since exams aren't released, it isn't possible to rank the readings. Here is a screen of the 6C ranking table. (Note that it can be sorted by any column.)
heading into the exam, I had thought the prescribed syllabus order would be of value since they would present questions with the same groupings. While the order is roughly the same, they seem to be applying new names to the sections; I don't recall the specific category name but it roughly corresponded to rate regulation.
Anyways, thanks for illustrating your changes. this was just an effort to share my thought process as rearranging my notes helps me crystallize my thoughts anyway
Right, I find that helpful too, writing something down to organize my thoughts, regardless of whether anyone else reads it.