A 24-week SOA Exam PA study plan covers roughly 150 hours at ~6 hours per week. A comfortable pace for Exam PA. Best if you are new to the material, studying alongside a demanding job, or prefer depth over speed.
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Every module dated to your exam, with quizzes and FSRS flashcards generated from your own materials.
A 24-week Exam PA 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.
Translating a business problem into a predictive modeling question, exploratory data analysis, and feature engineering. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Building, evaluating, and interpreting GLMs in R for common actuarial applications. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Fitting and tuning decision trees, random forests, and gradient boosting models in R. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cross-validation, test set performance, sensitivity analysis, and communicating results to non-technical stakeholders. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Weak-topic drilling. exclam.ai surfaces topics where you underperformed during coverage and re-quizzes them. Daily FSRS flashcard reps across all 4 topics to prevent decay. Start doing timed question batches focused on the heaviest-weight sections.
Full-length Exam PA 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 PA has 4 topic areas. This plan allocates time across all of them, weighted by the approximate exam weights.
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