SOA SRMStatistics for Risk Modeling
Associateship (ASA)
3.5 hours·35 multiple-choice·≈250 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
Official SRM sample questions
≈60 items with solutions; the most exam-like material available.
Recurring question patterns
- Regression-output interpretation
- Conceptual bias–variance and CV items
- Small PCA/clustering computations
- ARIMA/exponential-smoothing recognition
The practice tab reproduces these patterns with original numbers — work a pattern here, then confirm against the official paper.