We don't have all the information but a freakishly low pass rate together with experiences posted by actuarial students on this thread are good enough information to conclude that this paper was a lot harder than the norm.
I think that the pass mark should be lowered such that the pass rate is somewhere close to the long term average of 53% - just as was done for CT3 and CT5 this year.
The only alternative explanation for this abnormally low pass rate is that most of the 918 students were abnormally stupid/ill prepared - but as i scored 15% higher on past papers that had the same 60% pass mark i doubt this is the case.
All the evidence suggests that the April 2018 students were as good as any other students but they just got tripped up by an abnormally tough paper.
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