Very true. However, I can understand why people are discouraged from voicing their concerns:
a) I experimented with this when voicing a concern earlier this year about the abnormally low pass rate of the CT8 paper in April 2018. In no time at all there were a combination of students who had passed an easy sitting of CT8, together with a few humble braggers who happened to have scraped a pass on the April 2018 paper, crawling all over the discussion by highlighting their own achievements whilst simultaneously claiming that there was nothing wrong with the April 2018 paper. I have witnessed this pattern of behaviour on several other forums. Therefore, there are a
small but vocal, self-centered group of actuarial students who will cease any adversity expressed by less fortunate students exclusively for self-aggrandising purposes (despite the fact that they often scraped a pass on an easy paper when the student articulating adversity only just missed a pass on a far more difficult paper). Whilst I can personally handle narcissistic individuals with relative ease, I imagine this group of people will discourage many other students from expressing their views
b) Some students may genuinely be concerned that voicing their concerns may result in 'special attention' being given to the marking of their future exams. The same reason why you don't complain about the service in a restaurant before you've received your food
In addition, some of us have already seen emails from within the IFoA instructing staff members to keep a 'close watch' on one particular students exam.
My recommendation: Voice your concerns and leave the IFoA. There are far better and lower cost routes to qualification.
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