A 6-week SOA Exam FAM study plan covers roughly 300 hours at ~50 hours per week. This pace is demanding for Exam FAM. Most candidates cannot sustain 50+ hours per week alongside a full-time job. Consider this plan if you have flexible schedule weeks ahead or significant prior exposure to the material.
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A 6-week Exam FAM plan walks the syllabus module-by-module before transitioning into review and mock phases. Module weeks are allocated proportional to SOA topic weights — heavier-weighted modules get more time, lighter ones either get a single week or pair with adjacent topics on intensive paces.
Cover Insurance Coverages and Retirement Products (5–10%), Severity, Frequency, and Aggregate Models (15–20%), Parametric Estimation (10–15%) in this week — paired because their individual weights are light or the intensive pace requires combining adjacent syllabus sections. Read each objective, flashcard the key formulas, and run one quiz across the group before moving on.
Cover Mortality and Survival Models (10–15%), Life Insurance Pricing and Reserving (15–20%) in this week — paired because their individual weights are light or the intensive pace requires combining adjacent syllabus sections. Read each objective, flashcard the key formulas, and run one quiz across the group before moving on.
Cover Short-Term Insurance Pricing and Reserving (15–20%), Option Pricing Fundamentals (5–10%) in this week — paired because their individual weights are light or the intensive pace requires combining adjacent syllabus sections. Read each objective, flashcard the key formulas, and run one quiz across the group before moving on.
Weak-topic drilling. exclam.ai surfaces topics where you underperformed during coverage and re-quizzes them. Daily FSRS flashcard reps across all 7 topics to prevent decay. Start doing timed question batches focused on the heaviest-weight sections.
Full-length Exam FAM practice exams under timed conditions. Target one mock every 3–5 days. Same-day error review: for every question you miss, re-derive the solution from scratch. Taper in the final 3 days — light flashcards only.
Exam FAM has 7 topic areas. This plan allocates time across all of them, weighted by the approximate exam weights.
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