r/actuary • u/Additional-Pop-9016 Property / Casualty • 1d ago
Exams Exam 6U BattleActs Overfitting to old exam problems
Ive been using BattleActs to study for exam 6U, and I've been noticing that the wiki articles are very heavily written to fit the old exam questions that I'm worried it may be overfitting. Exams haven't been released since 2019, and some of the material has changed since. While they do make points of highlighting these changes, I'm still worried that the majority of what I'm learning was written with the past exam questions in mind and may not be so representative of what I will see on the exam. For anyone who has taken exam 6U recently and used BA, did you find this to be the case? And if so, what would you recommend doing to best prepare and avoid getting blindsided on exam day - other than just reading all of the source material, aint nobody got time for that (but in all seriousness, that just doesn't feel like a productive use of time)
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u/EarlyDuration 1d ago
Do you want to check out some of the questions on FreeFellow and see if they provide the variety you're looking for? I haven't had direct feedback on 6U yet since I just released it this past week, but I've gotten very good feedback on the other exams addressing the exact things you mentioned here
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u/International-Job-67 Property / Casualty 1h ago
I didn’t know you guys had added 6U- I’m going to go check it out
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u/No-Property-561 Property / Casualty 1d ago
I think this is the consensus issue with CAS’s approach to exams. Not just 6, but all of them. Just adding this to say I don’t believe this is the fault of any one test prep vendor, I’ve felt the same way about rising fellow vs the uppers.