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Designing Your Study Habit
The key to passing actuarial exams is consistency, and understanding habit formation is crucial to stick to your study schedule. In this article, we bring you tips from Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit to help you fight procrastination and even enjoy your study sessions.
When is the Best Time of Day to Study?
“Time-of-day effects can explain 20 percent of the variance in human performance on work tasks.” In this article, we summarize advice from Daniel Pink’s book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing to help you optimize the timing of your study sessions.
Two Ways to Get More Out of Your Practice Problems
The most common advice for actuarial exams is to do as many practice problems as possible. It works, but is it optimal? Here are two ways to take a quality over quantity approach.
How I Passed my First FSA Exam with 176 Study Hours
People told me I needed 300-500 study hours to pass a 5-hour FSA exam. I didn’t have time for that – I still needed to balance writing a book, my actuarial job, and wedding planning. Here’s my experiment to cut down on study time.
The Most Overlooked Study Skill for Actuarial Exams
Students often discuss strategies for reviewing actuarial exam material (which practice problems to use, or how many to complete). However, there is a key part of the study process that is often overlooked in discussions of study strategy.
Taking breaks to improve your learning
Studying is viewed as an intense, focused process. However, relaxation is overlooked as part of the problem-solving process. Read more about how to use breaks to strategically improve your learning.