St1 & St2

Has anyone sat these 2 subjects and if so how much do they overlap.

I'm sitting ST2 in April and am considering picking up ST1 now too. I've heard that a lot of the same topics are covered in both subjects but applied to different products. If so it would seem to me that the workload involved would be reduced somewhat rather than sitting them both in different exam sessions.

Any comments are appreciated.

 

In my opinion I suggest you treat these two papers separately.

It probably looks similar when you run through and agree it will save you few hours doing them together.

Just be aware that some questions need a completely different approach to ST2.

I am speaking from experience and you could easily mess up both and if you are lucky you could pass both in one go and wait for a big pay slip!


Good Luck

 

Someone said to me that ST2 is looking from the insurer's prospective and ST1 is looking from policyholder's prospective.

Any comments on this?

I just passed ST2 and I am doing ST1 now...

 

Not true in my opinion.

You can get qns that ask about interests of policyholder and insurer on either paper and indeed questions that enquire about the conflicting interests.