2010 Examinations, Useful Information

The new syllabuses for the 2010 exams are available on the Profession's website.

Please find below some more information about subjects where significant changes are occurring. Where possible, we aim to produce a "CMP Upgrade" that allows you to update your course materials from one year to the next without the need to purchase the course again. However, in some subjects the number of changes makes an upgrade impractical. Retakers who have previously paid full-price for a CMP are eligible to purchase a new CMP the following year at a significant discount.

The Core Reading for CT7 is being replaced by references to an economics text book: Economics for Business, Sloman and Hinde, 4th edition, Prentice Hall.

We will include the text book as part of the CMP, which will also include supplementary notes, a Q&A Bank and X Assignments, as usual. The individual components and the text book can be purchased separately.

There will not be a CMP Upgrade, but discounts will be available for previous purchasers of a CT7 CMP. The retaker CMP or Retaker Course Notes do NOT include the text book.

We are unlikely to release any revision material, eg Flashcards or Revision Notes, until February.

As previously announced by the Profession, the CA3 exam is currently being replaced by a 2-day course/assessment. The two assessment methods are being run in parallel in 2009, but the exam is (probably) being withdrawn in 2010. Visit the Profession's website for more information.

Specific Course Notes and X Assignments have been released for students preparing for the 2-day assessment. Please click here for more information. We hope to broaden this product range next year.

Subject ST3 is disappearing. Two new general insurance subjects are being created, ST7 General Insurance Reserving and Capital Modelling and ST8 General Insurance Pricing.

Upgrades will not be available but students who have previously purchased ST3 will be entitled to a retaker discount when buying one of ST7 or ST8.

We are unlikely to release any revision materials in the session leading to the April 2010 exams.

This is a new subject on Enterprise Risk Management. Most of the Core Reading is taken from three text books:

• Chapman: Simple tools & techniques for enterprise risk management
• Lam: Enterprise Risk Management From Incentives to Controls
• McNeil, Frey & Embrechts: Quantitative Risk Management

We will include these books as part of the CMP, which will also include supplementary notes, a Q&A Bank and X Assignments.

We are unlikely to release any revision materials in the session leading to the April 2010 exams.

Subject SA3

There will be lots of changes to this course with plenty of new material. Therefore, we will not be issuing a CMP Upgrade.

Students will also be required to be familiar with the new material in Subjects ST7 and ST8. Students ordering the Subject SA3 Core Reading directly from the Profession may also order the Core Reading for Subjects ST7 and ST8 free of charge. We will also be giving some discounts on ActEd material although the details have yet to be finalised.