P exam study notes
The Society of Actuaries' P exam seems to have been quite stable for many years; some of the questions in Hassett and Stewart (2009) are still in the rotation of the sample questions and their answers. Some questions expect you to have access to this table of $z$-score probabilites, or some other way to calculate the cumulative probability function for the normal distribution.
The sample questions document has 627 sample questions on 257 pages. So I'm going to do a few questions a day, from some random pages, and keep notes here on how I do.
To choose a page number:
python -c 'import random; print(random.randint(2,257))' python -c 'import random; print([ random.randint(2,257) for _ in range(4) ])'
Practice sessions
| date | questions | correct | score | time_all | time_correct | time_incorrect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 20 | 13 | 12 | 0.92 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| July 20 | 11 | 9 | 0.82 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.5 |
| July 20 | 11 | 8 | 0.73 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 8.0 |
| July 18 | 8 | 5 | 0.62 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 6.3 |
| July 15 | 16 | 12 | 0.75 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 8.0 |
| July 14 | 11 | 10 | 0.91 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 4.0 |
| July 13 | 8 | 8 | 1.00 | 6.0 | 6.0 | nan |
| July 12 | 11 | 10 | 0.91 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 6.0 |
| July 11 | 11 | 9 | 0.82 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 4.5 |
| July 10 | 8 | 4 | 0.50 | 7.0 | 5.2 | 8.8 |
| July 2 | 4 | 4 | 1.00 | 10.0 | 10.0 | nan |
| July 1 | 7 | 6 | 0.86 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 5.0 |
| June 30 | 9 | 7 | 0.78 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 4.0 |
| June 27 | 4 | 3 | 0.75 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 9.0 |
| June 26 | 8 | 6 | 0.75 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 7.5 |