Reference
Actuarial Exam Pass Rates
Pass rates for every current CAS and SOA exam, charted sitting by sitting from the societies' official statistics. CAS histories run from 2011, SOA preliminary exams from 2007, including recently retired exams for candidates comparing eras.
Current exams
MAS-I
Modern Actuarial Statistics I
MAS-II
Modern Actuarial Statistics II
Exam 5
Basic Techniques for Ratemaking and Estimating Claim Liabilities
Exam 6-Canada
Regulation and Financial Reporting (Canada)
Exam 6-Intl
Regulation and Financial Reporting (International)
Exam 6-US
Regulation and Financial Reporting (United States)
Exam 7
Advanced Estimation of Claims Liabilities
Exam 8
Advanced Ratemaking
Exam 9
Financial Risk and Rate of Return
PCPA
Property-Casualty Predictive Analytics
Exam P
Probability
Exam FM
Financial Mathematics
Exam FAM
Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics
Exam SRM
Statistics for Risk Modeling
Exam ASTAM
Advanced Short-Term Actuarial Mathematics
Exam ALTAM
Advanced Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics
Exam PA
Predictive Analytics
EA-1
Enrolled Actuaries Basic Examination
EA-2F
Enrolled Actuaries Pension Examination, Segment F
EA-2L
Enrolled Actuaries Pension Examination, Segment L
CFE 101
Corporate Finance and ERM, Course 101
CFE 201
Corporate Finance and ERM, Course 201
GH 101
Group and Health, Course 101
GH 201-C
Group and Health, Course 201 (Canada)
GH 201-U
Group and Health, Course 201 (United States)
GH 301
Group and Health, Course 301
GI 101
General Insurance, Course 101
GI 201
General Insurance, Course 201
GI 301
General Insurance, Course 301
ILA 101
Individual Life and Annuities, Course 101
ILA 201-I
Individual Life and Annuities, Course 201 (International)
ILA 201-U
Individual Life and Annuities, Course 201 (United States)
INV 101
Investments, Course 101
INV 201
Investments, Course 201
RET 101
Retirement, Course 101
RET 201
Retirement, Course 201
RET 301
Retirement, Course 301
CP 311
Cross Practice, Course 311
CP 312
Cross Practice, Course 312
CP 321
Cross Practice, Course 321
CP 341
Cross Practice, Course 341
CP 351
Cross Practice, Course 351
Retired exams
No longer offered, kept for historical comparison. Several were replaced by exams above.
Exam FAM-L
Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics, Long-Term
Exam FAM-S
Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics, Short-Term
Exam IFM
Investment and Financial Markets
Exam STAM
Short-Term Actuarial Mathematics
Exam LTAM
Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics
Exam MLC
Models for Life Contingencies
Exam MFE
Models for Financial Economics
Exam C
Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models
Exam ERM
Enterprise Risk Management
CFE FD
Foundations of CFE
CFE SDM
Strategic Decision Making
GI INT
Introduction to General Insurance
GI IRR
Introduction to Ratemaking and Reserving
GI FREU
Financial and Regulatory Environment (U.S.)
GI ADV
Advanced Topics in General Insurance
ILA LPM
Life Product Management
ILA LAM
Life ALM and Modeling
ILA LFMU
Life Financial Management (U.S.)
ILA LFMC
Life Financial Management (Canada)
QFI QF
Quantitative Finance
QFI IRM
Investment Risk Management
QFI PM
Portfolio Management
RET DAU
Design and Accounting (U.S.)
RET DAC
Design and Accounting (Canada)
RET FRC
Funding and Regulation (Canada)
RET RPIRM
Retirement Plan Investment and Risk Management
GH DP
Design and Pricing
GH FVU
Financial Valuation (U.S.)
GH FVC
Financial Valuation (Canada)
GH VRU
Valuation and Regulation (U.S.)
GH VRC
Valuation and Regulation (Canada)
GH RM
Risk Mitigation
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About this data
Raw pass rate is candidates passing divided by candidates sitting. Where a society also publishes an effective rate, which screens out papers too incomplete to be realistic attempts, the exam page charts both. Figures come from the CAS Exams Results & Summary of Exam Statistics workbook (2011 to present) at casact.org and from the SOA's published pass lists at soa.org. We refresh this page after each results release; statistics on every exam page are recomputed from the underlying data on each update.
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