Is actuarial science difficult?
“Difficulty” it is a word of one’s own feeling, it's not the ultimate declaration on which one can decide on.The level of difficulty in actuarial field depends on 4 factors as follows1. Your educational background: As the course is mostly into Mathematics & Statistics you should be having some basic math and good statistics skills, if you are a non math person you should work hard in the beginning. It doesn't mean that non math student can't do actuarial science. Also note that an actuary work is completely on high-level softwares and programming languages, so one should be having soft skills like Advanced excel, R/Python programming language, VBA, etc., to crack an actuarial job.2. Your current status: (either employed or studying any other course)If you are an employee or a student you should be ready to sacrifice your weekends and free time because you are already occupied in weekdays with some other stuff. Studying only weekends and clearing modules required great determination and dedication. You should be having a better study plan to clear modules this way and should stick to it whatever.3. The way you choose modules: Of course the institute will not be restricting you on the order of choosing modules but you should follow a particular pattern for ‘smooth sailing’ some modules require knowledge of other modules like CT4 required basic knowledge of CT1 and CT3, you can check on the institute website where given the relation of each module to other – for reference click on this link below „Welcome to the Institute of Actuaries of India.And ultimately4. Passion: If Actuary is your passion you will never feel it difficult, atleast till the success(you feel). If you are not passionate towards the course then this will be toughest one you had ever seen, so make actuary as your passion.Check which factor affects you more and proceed accordingly.Whatever course you choose always “plan the exit before the entry itself” and once you decided be on it till the end.
I want to be an actuary without going to college to study it. How do I do that?
First, you have to choose with actuarial society in which you want to obtain your designation from. Eg: SOA, IFoA, IAI, CIA and so on.Once you’ve done that, you need to complete all the exam requirements from the actuarial society. Different actuarial societies will have different exam requirements but the exam coverage topics will be pretty much the same. It’s just the way the exams are conducted that will be different. Get good study materials to help you prepare for the exams. sit for the exams and pass all of the exams. Once you’ve completed all the exam requirements, you will become an actuary.Here’s a short video that summarizes these points on how to become an actuary. Pardon the watermark because I was experimenting with some video editing softwares previously.That’s the academic process of becoming an actuary. Ultimately, you want to get a job/internship along the way to build up your work experience as an actuary. An actuary without work experience is not going to be a very valuable candidate in the long run. So be sure to keep that in mind.You want to focus on improving your technical skills especially in Excel and VBA because this is very important to have as an actuary. You must be very disciplined and be ready to commit a lot of hours to studying and preparing for the actuarial exams. Also, be sure to have a clear plan on what do you plan to do i.e where do you want to work, why do you want to become an actuary, which sector do you want to work in and so on as you progress along your actuarial journey.
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