SOA PAPredictive Analytics
Associateship (ASA)
3.5 hours (plus 15-minute read)·One case study, multi-part written response·≈200 study hoursWhat is officially available
The SOA publishes past written-answer exams with model solutions and examiner commentary for FSA exams and for ALTAM/ASTAM. For multiple-choice ASA exams it releases official sample questions and, for some exams, retired papers. Actuarium does not reproduce copyrighted papers; use the official archive plus the original practice set here.
Sittings worth mining
2019–2025 released projects
Each includes the project statement, data dictionary, R output and a model solution — the core study material.
Recurring question patterns
- Data-quality critique
- Feature selection and treatment of factors
- GLM vs tree comparison with a business justification
- Executive summary for a non-technical reader
The practice tab reproduces these patterns with original numbers — work a pattern here, then confirm against the official paper.