Cut it out

Hi Anna!

Before I answer your question, I want to say to everyone else reading this that Anna is a BRILLIANT tutorial presenter! I was fortunate enough to attend the CA12 tutorial that she presented in Cape Town for the September sitting this year, and if I do pass (let's hope... ) I owe her big-time!

I only studied CA12 so can't really answer the question regarding the CA11 material. But I do think some of risk content is just too much - the risk process planning and all that doesn't really add value, doesn't enhance my understanding of risks or how to deal with them and just end up taking up valuable space in my brain that I could use better!

 

Not got far enough through yet.

Have just read section one.

There does seem to be loads of lists of ideas/ points that require some brief elaboration. Gets a bit dull- but it does seem to be mainly core reading in this section.

I guess if this is what the exam requires then it needs to be in there.

Some of my colleagues tell me that a few of the later chapters tend to double up a bit on the bumf and even the core reading to some extent.... mmmm can't wait for those

I guess I'll be in a better position to give my tuppence worth once I've got past section zillion and one, or whatever.

In the mean time- does anyone have any ideas how to 'liven up' studying the course. I'm finding it a bit intimidating at the mo!

Thinking of drawing some pretty spider diagrams of the main themes...

...but perhaps a role play or even an ITV dramatisation of the course's content.

Hmm maybe not.

Finally, is it actually possible to carry the course home from the office in one go?

ps. Thanks Anna- Great Tutor. Your tutorial really helped me with CT6 in April!!

 

When I look to prepare exams I'm looking for an exam with lots of history. ie loads of past papers. I think it is a great shame that the 301,302,303 and 304 were not left alone with 305 and an extra exam for health insurance. My feeling is the best tactical way of approaching CA1, since there is little CA12 history might be to do ST2 and ST4 (orST3) first

 

Extra information is often too much

Does anyone else think that lots of the material in the core reading could be chopped out without making it less understandable?

e.g. explaining the difference between bonds and equities in chapter 4, does anyone need to be reminded of this??

 

Yeah I Suppose You Could Chop Pointless Sections Like That Out About Bonds Vs Equities
But Consider This
If You Already Know The Stuff On Boonds Vs Equities That Extra Chapter Should Take Up A Minute Amount Of Study Timne And Memory Storage


And The Advantage Of Leaving It In

Is If Some Generous Examiner Wants To Ask A Bookie Question On Bonds Vs Equities, U Get A Few Free Marks For Limited Study

 

CA1 - what to remove

Well I have just finished the first two parts of the course and only when reading the last chapter did I learn anything new. The rest of the material seems to be extracts from ST4, CT5 and CT6. In some cases it looks like a direct copy and paste. While in some sense this is a good thing in that it is all familiar to me, I question the objectives of the Institute, making us learn this information twice. How can there be any merit in learning about marine insurance in two subjects?

My suspicion is that someone has wrote CA1 hoping to cover all financial products and they have obviously done that. But why duplicate material? Maybe if they recognised what had already been done in the CTs and referred back to it, CA1 would be a manageable size.

 

I just sat CA1, and think there is an awful lot of repitition within the CA1 course itself.
For example in the first half Reinsurance products are introduced and then later on... the Risk management chapter? (50 odd) they are covered again in more detail.
Chapters such as Introduction... and then later on are disscussed again are a complete wast of time. Why not write a condensed chapter covering both chapters?