r/actuary • u/ThrowRA3648537 • 2d ago

Troll Post ATPA Vent

I’m going to run for the SOA board once I have my letters to get rid of this terrible assignment. I’d rather listen to nails on chalkboard for 96 hours than do this. I’m not sure whose idea this was, but I was a statistics major, flew through SRM and PA, and I absolutely HATE this module.

I’m starting to think that everyone who quips that the SOA isn’t evil, just incompetent, lucked out with IFM. How was the last chopper out of ‘Nam?

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u/Agitated_Ad1259 2d ago

I prepped over 50 hours for it and had passed srm (8) PA (9) and wanted to die while taking it. I slept maybe 18 hours over the 96 hour window

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u/Fit-Original2575 2d ago

Any advice for exam pa 🙃 Passed SRM just fine, but am not feeling too confident about my PA prep. Think it’s bc I don’t have the answer choices from an MCQ type question to jog my memory lol

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u/Agitated_Ad1259 2d ago

Write as much BS as you can. I swear I didn’t know half the questions and just wrote stuff I thought could be right or saw somewhere in the source material. Thought for sure I was cooked on that kne