Mr. Francisco A. Delgado, Ph.D., from the Wharton School of Finance is the instructor for the All 10 Exam 8 Seminar. This four-day course consists of 8 seminar sessions.   Morning sessions run from 8 am to 12 noon.  Afternoon sessions run from 1 pm to 5 pm.

Materials you will receive:

1.  Beginning in December, registrants will receive ALL 10's "Actuarial Notes for the SPRING 2008 CAS Exam 8".  This comprehensive set of study manuals (in excess of 800 pages) serves as the fundamental preparatory tool for the review course and exam preparation. 

In addition, registrants will receive login access to our online web services (online study time and task manager, recommended reading schedule, and online study guide)
Over a 13 week period, our staff spends Significant time updating Weekly guidance on what syllabus reading pages to review, what study manual pages they cross reference, and what past CAS questions to work to reinforce specific concepts.
Streamline your exam preparation by logging in each Monday, beginning January 7, to review our online study guide commentary.

2.  Prior to the seminar, registrants will receive Volume III contains 5 Preparatory Tests (IN PAPER FORMAT).

Each test contains questions and solutions from sub sections of the CAS exam 8 syllabus readings.

These tests primarily contain over 100 challenging questions and solutions drawn primarily from the two main texts used for Sections A-G: Investments (2008) by Bodie, Kane, and Marcus and Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (2006) by Hull. The tests also include questions from many of the remaining articles as well.

3.  After the seminar, registrants will have the opportunity to take 6 online preparatory tests. These are designed to reinforce your understanding of the material at a time when you should be ready to do so.

This series of six online tests consists of three modified past CAS MC and Computational questions tests and three Past CAS essay tests.

The source of questions appearing on modified CAS questions tests are questions from past CAS exams, and the modifications include both verbiage and data changes. The questions on these exams are auto graded.

The questions on our past CAS essay tests are verbatim CAS essay questions. The impetus for candidates to take these past CAS essay tests online is the ability to compare their answers to our model solutions and to the CAS model solutions.
As candidates are now aware, the points associated with essay-based questions account for a significant percent of the total points tested on CAS exams.

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