As a student writing both CAS and SOA exams, I feel entitled to throw my
two cents in:
At 07:45 PM 9/16/1997 -0400, Scott Martin wrote:
>7) The exams are different.
>
>Personally, I was concerned about the big exams on the CAS
>side, as I was happy with the smaller life exams.
This, of course, becomes moot after the year 2000, when the dozens of
life exams get consiolidated into much larger parts.
>In general, I think the CAS exams do more testing what you can
>memorize, while the SOA exams do a little better at testing what
>you know.
A more diplomatic way to put this is that the CAS tests how much a
candidate knows, while the SOA tests how well the candidate knows it.
One other apparent difference: on core-level and fellowship-level exams,
the SOA seems a little more willing to vary the pass ratio than the CAS.
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