Tuition

  1. Format
  2. Associated Products
Face-to-face Online
Live / Synchronous Tutorials and preparation days
On-demand / Asynchronous N/A Online Classroom
  1. Purpose
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  3. Types of tutorials
  4. Tutorial schedule and application process
  5. Associated products
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ActEd's face-to-face and live online tutorials have been designed by our experienced team of tutors to help make sure that you prepare effectively for the exams. They aim to build and consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the principles covered by the course. Time spent on an ActEd tutorial will be amongst your most productive study time.

ActEd's interactive tutorials are challenging and rewarding. Your tutor will take you through important questions, clarify key concepts, and give you the motivation to succeed. They will help you to develop your higher-level understanding and exam technique in an enjoyable environment.

Your tutor will expect you to have read the relevant parts of the Course Notes before the tutorial and to work hard on the day.

Regular Tutorials
  • Regular Tutorials are ideal if you want tuition throughout the session to make sure that you fully understand the material as you progress through the course.
  • In the CM and CS subjects, our Regular Tutorials will focus on the core material, concentrating on paper-based questions that will be tested in Paper A.
  • Given that there will be 3 to 5 tutorial days in each subject, we recommend Regular Tutorials over Block Tutorials.
Block Tutorials
  • These are courses held closer to the exams with at least some consecutive days, offered as an alternative to Regular Tutorials. They are the same length and cover the same content as the alternative Regular Tutorial.
Live Online Tutorials
  • Our Live Online Tutorials receive excellent feedback. They may be different to being in a classroom, but we aim to replicate the exprience and learning outcomes of a face-to-face tutorial as closely as possible. Interaction will be encouraged using interactive polls and a typed chat facility.
  • In addition, you will be benefit from:
    • The opportunity to re-watch or catch-up on any live sessions you miss, until the end of the study session after the one in which you take the tutorial, using a recording of the live session.
    • reduced travel time and cost
    • reduced tutorial cost
  • In addition to full-day Live Online Tutorials, we often offer half-day Live Online Tutorials. Half-day tutorials start between 9am and 10am and end between 12:30pm and 1pm. Half-day afternoon tutorials start between 1:30pm and 2pm and finish between 5pm and 5:30pm.
  • In order to participate all you need is access to a broadband internet connection, an internet browser and speakers or headphones. We recommend that you use a PC or laptop rather than a tablet or phone for a better tutorial experience.
Paper B Preparation Days (CS / CM)
  • In the CM and CS Subjects, students wishing for some additional tutor support for Paper B, working through exam-style questions, may wish to attend a Paper B Preparation Day. These will be available Live Online or face-to-face, where students will need to bring their own device capable of running Excel or RStudio as required.
  • Tutors will assume that attendees have used the Paper B Online Resources (PBOR), which form part of the CMP. You will not be taught the essential skills of working in Excel or R on the Paper B Preparation Day.
  • Some Paper B Preparation Days are available separately from Regular or Block Tutorials but most are available as the final day in a 5-day or 6-day 'Bundle', which combines a Regular or Block Tutorial with a Preparation Day.

Unless otherwise stated (above), teaching days typically start between 9am and 10am, and finish between 4:30pm and 5pm (UK time).

If you might need to change your plans in the light of your exam results or exemptions gained, then we'd recommend that you apply for a late-starting Regular Tutorial or a Block Tutorial rather than a standard Regular Tutorial.

Although we cannot guarantee any maximum group size, we usually aim for at most 12 on face-to-face tutorials and 14 on most live online tutorials.

Students attending a Regular or Block Tutorial (delivered face-to-face or live online) in the same session may purchase the Online Classroom at a significantly reduced cost.

Details of all our current provisional and/or confirmed courses, together with full listings of dates, locations and finalisation dates can be viewed in our Tutorial Bulletin.

Numbers will be limited and so to maximise your chance of getting a place we encourage early applications.

You will be able to view provisional venues and see an indication of the number of spaces available on each course on our e-store.

The Tutorial Bulletin describes the tutorial application process. You are advised to apply early as tutorials often book up very quickly.

  1. Purpose
  2. Contents
  3. Highlights and key benefits
  4. Format & Samples
  5. Subject SA1 mini-Online Classroom
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The Online Classroom (OC) is an exciting approach to studying for the actuarial exams. It acts as either a valuable add-on to a tutorial (face-to-face or live online) or a great alternative to a tutorial, particularly if you're not based in the UK or near a tutorial venue.

At the heart of the OC in each subject is a comprehensive, easily-searched collection of tutorial units. These are a mix of:

  • teaching units, helping you to really get to grips with the course material, and
  • guided questions, enabling you to learn the most efficient ways to answer questions and avoid common exam pitfalls.

An exception is the Subject SA1 mini-Online Classroom, which does not cover the whole Subject SA1 course.

Comprehensive

  • Content equivalent to a typical tutorial
  • Easy to understand tutor explanations of topics
  • Tutor-guided question practice
  • Question and solution handouts

Connected and supported

  • You're part of a group of students in the Online Classroom (your cohort)
  • You don't have to study in isolation
  • Discuss the course online with other students
  • Receive support, motivation and answers to queries from your dedicated tutor

Interactive / multi-sensory

  • You study actively, pausing the recordings to answer questions and checking your understanding throughout
  • By watching, listening and participating in short chunks, learning is enhanced

You're in control

  • You choose what to study and when - focusing your efforts on the topics and questions you need to study most
  • Don't use your valuable time on topics that you already understand well

Flexible and efficient

  • Tuition divided into short, easily accessible units
  • You receive access to all the content online from the start, giving you the flexibility to pick and choose what and when to study

Anytime / anywhere

  • Daytimes, evenings, weekends - you choose
  • Connect to the Online Classroom at home, in the office, on the train or anywhere you have internet access
  • The short length of each unit means you can make each study session as long (or as short) as you want

Each unit of the OC consists of a video which can be viewed in any standard browser (see samples below).

Teaching unit Guided question
CM1 CM1
CM2 CM2
CS1 CS1
CS2 CS2
CB1 CB1
CB2 CB2
CP1 CP1
SP1 SP1
SP2 SP2
SP5 SP5
SP7 SP7
SP8 SP8
SA1 SA1
SA2 SA2
SA7 SA7
Subject SA1 mini-Online Classroom

The mini-Online Classroom may be of particular interest to students who are unable to attend the SA1 block tutorial or who are retaking the exam.

The mini-Online Classroom for Subject SA1 includes 28 video units, a question handout and solutions pack. There is also a dedicated SA1 mini-Online Classroom forum which is monitored by ActEd tutors.

The SA1 mini-Online Classroom has been produced primarily using units from the SA2 Online Classroom. The units in the mini-SA1 Online Classroom as the same as those in the SA2 Online Classroom. Therefore, they may refer to 'life insurance' or products that are less relevant to SA1 (such as with-profits products). However, all the units cover material that is included within SA1 where there is significant overlap between the Core Reading for subjects SA1 and SA2.

The topics covered are:
  • Solvency II
  • Professional standards and guidance
  • Profit reporting
  • Embedded value
  • Capital management.

The SA1 mini-Online Classroom also includes subject specific material on the funding of healthcare.

In addition, the SA1 mini-Online Classroom also recaps some material from the SP1 Online Classroom including:
  • Product design
  • Reinsurance
  • Risk
  • Risk management.

Please note that this mini-Online Classroom does not cover the whole SA1 course. In particular, areas that are not covered include: product specific details; assessing, recommending and implications of strategies; analysis of experience. There is no intention at this time to expand the SA1 mini-Online Classroom to include these areas.

  1. Purpose
  2. Contents
  3. Timing your application for tuition

The Tutorial Bulletin provides detailed information on:

  • the tutorials scheduled for the current session, ie those leading towards the April 2026 exams
  • how to apply for a tutorial
  • how tutorial places are allocated, and the associated finalisation dates.

It will enable you to identify what forms of tuition are relevant and available to you, and how to make an application to attend a tutorial.

You can download the latest Tutorial Bulletin here (updated 01 October 2025).

The Tutorial Bulletin is in Adobe Acrobat format, and you will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print it. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it here.

We appreciate that it may be tempting to wait until after results before deciding what to sit, but we strongly recommend that you commit to a subject early and start studying as soon as possible. There will only be a finite number of tutorial places available on the later-starting tutorials and we cannot always guarantee everyone a place.

Places on all tutorials are allocated on a first-come first-served basis and many become fully booked very quickly. You can still apply for tutorials after the finalisation date, but you should be aware that some are likely to be full by this stage.