2012 Spring Exam Solutions

I have loaded video solutions for the Spring 2012 exam. As with the other exams, I have included the source material for each question and worked through the calculation-based problems.

Be sure to watch the “summary” video and download the attachment that contains a summary of the exam problems and which ones were calculation-based.

Good luck with the last few weeks of studying!!

Jeremy

Section F Updated

On August 12, 2012, I updated Section F for the 2012 syllabus. The only section that was changed was Section F.2.2 on Moody’s Corporate Default Rates. This study note is updated every few years to reflect the recent experience, so the information is very similar to the previous lesson.

Now all of the online seminar lessons should be updated for the 2012 syllabus! I hope to add some addition items (like video solutions for the Spring 2012 exam) in the coming months.

Good luck with your studying!!

Jeremy

2012 Updates – Sections D & E

On July 9, I updated Sections D and E of the online seminar for the Fall 2012 syllabus. There were two sections from the spring syllabus that are no longer on the syllabus (one each from Sections D & E). The video lessons had been removed several weeks ago, and I have now updated the “Outline” and the “Notes” files to remove these lessons.

The only lesson that still needs to be updated for the 2012 syllabus is the lesson on Moody’s Default rates (Section F.2.2). This update should be coming in the next week or so.

Happy Studying!

Jeremy

2012 Updates – Section C

On July 8, I updated section C of the online seminar. I added two items that were new for the 2012 syllabus:

Section C.2.5 covers the November 2011 Product Matters article “Level Term Lapse Rates: Lessons Learned Here and in Canada.”

Section C.3.11 covers the published reference “Expected Mortality: Fully Underwritten Canadian Individual Life Insurance Policies.” Special thanks to Eddie Smith who covers the Canadian portion of the syllabus for the use of his video and notes on this section. Previously, this section was only on the Canadian syllabus, but it has now been added to the U.S. syllabus as well.

The Outline and Notes have also been updated for Section C. For the “Notes” section I split out the final section on Expected Mortality since it was in Landscape and the other sections were all in Portrait.

Good luck with your studying!!

Jeremy

2012 Updates – Section B

On July 2, I updated Section B of the online seminar. I added the new study material on “Socioeconomic Influences on Life Insurance” at the end of this section. This new material covers more “current events” than anything else, but I included it in the Marketing section because the last section deals with Marketing and Distribution Trends.

The Notes have been updated with this new material and I also added a clarification about the section on Compensation to indicate the chapter from the most recent LOMA textbook (the Notes still said Chapter 16 when the updated chapter is Chapter 8).

There are still a couple of updates that need to be made for 2012. Specfically, there will be a couple of new items for 2012 related to Assumptions that will be added to Section C.

Good luck with your studying!

Jeremy

2012 Updates – Section A

On May 29th, I made the updates to Section A for the 2012 Syllabus. This involved removing one lesson (VUL Secondary Guarantees) and revising the lesson on Annuity LTCI combination products (the “Small Talk” article was removed from the syllabus).

I have updated the online seminar to reflect these changes and posted the 2012 version of the outline and notes.

There are not any revised lessons in Section B, but I plan to update some of the files to reflect the most recent chapter numbers in the online videos.

There are a few more updates for 2012 that will be coming in the next few weeks. I will be posting updates on the blog as I update each section.

Good luck with your studying!

Jeremy

2011 Exam Solutions

I’ve uploaded video solutions to the 2011 ILA-DP exam. There is also a zip file to download which includes a summary of the exam questions and the corresponding section of the Online Seminar.

Jeremy

Solution to SOA exams

As you may have seen, I have been posting video solutions to the past SOA exams. I have now posted video solutions for the 2007=2010 exams.

For each exam, there is an overall summary which shows how many points are assigned to each problem and what part of the syllabus is used to answer each question. I have also included a video solution for each problem which includes a description of how to perform any calculations.

I hope these are helpful as you finish the last few weeks leading up to the exam.

Good luck!

JB

Exam Type Problems

I have added a number of exam-type problems to help with your preparations for the exam.

There is a section of “short” exam-type problems. These problems cover a separate topic for each question.

I’ve also added “Round 1” of exam type problems. This section contains 10 problems that are very similar to what you can expect to see on an actual exam.

Both of these sections contain a brief video introduction that gives a few more details on what you can expect.

In the coming weeks I will be adding “Round 2” of exam type questions as well as solutions to the previous actual exams.

Good luck with your studying!!

JB