Actuarial Exam Preparation Products: SOA Exam MFE and CAS Exam 3F
Course MFE/3F is the ideal exam to take immediately after Course FM/2 since the MFE/3F Exam uses and builds upon significant amounts of the Exam FM material.
We update our MFE/3F Review Notes and other products every 6 months to reflect student feedback, to clarify explanations, to correct any typos, and to incorporate any changes in the required reading.
Our Review Notes are available as a professionally printed, wire-bound hard copy or as an emailed PDF file.
Please note that our MFE/3F Review Notes and MFE/3F Review Questions are sold separately.
Our MFE/3F Chicago Seminar is sold through Actex and the Actuarial Bookstore.
Our MFE/3F Online Seminar is sold through the Actuarial Bookstore and Actex.
Check our MFE Seminar page for more information about our seminars.
Students who register for one of our MFE/3F Seminars will receive a copy of our PDF Review Notes.
We also offer MFE/3F Review Questions, Solutions, Flashcards and a Set of 4 Practice MFE/3F Exams.
Spring 2012 Exam Cycle
Our Spring 2012 MFE/3F Seminar will be held from March 15 - 18 in Chicago near the O'Hare airport. If you're not quite ready to register but would like your name placed on a list of interested students, please email us at info@actuarialbrew.com.
Our Spring 2012 electronic PDF Review Notes, as well as our professionally printed Review Notes, Review Questions, Review Solutions, Flashcards, and Set of 4 Practice Exams have been updated for the Spring 2012 exam cycle.
New for the Spring 2012 exam cycle is an electronic version of our Flashcards. We also now offer a Complete Online Combo study package which includes all of our electronic products (Online Seminar, Review Notes, Review Questions, Set of 4 Practice Exams and Flashcards).
Our MFE/3F Online Seminar is a complement our live seminars. The online seminar is very similar to our live seminars. Please check our MFE Seminar page for more information.
The official Spring 2012 MFE/3F syllabus and other important information about the next exam cycle can be found on our MFE Links page once it has been published by the SOA.
Please note that with computer-based testing (CBT), the MFE/3F exam will now use an online normal distribution calculator instead of a standard normal table. The calculator can be found here. While working exam-style questions, it is a good idea to use the online normal distribution calculator if you have access to the internet. If you don't have access to the internet, you can use the old Standard Normal Table, but your answers may differ somewhat due to rounding. We provide the old Standard Normal Table with our products for convenience in case internet access is not available.
MFE/3F Live Seminars: Spring 2012
Students who register for one of our MFE/3F Seminars will receive a copy of our PDF Review Notes by email soon after the registration is confirmed.
If you have registered for a seminar and have not received an confirmation email about the seminar within a week after registration, please send us an email at info@actuarialbrew.com. Sometimes firewall settings prevent emails from getting through, so if you have not received an email within a week of registering for the seminar, please let us know.
For the Spring 2012 exam cycle, students may attend a 3.5-day seminar in Chicago. Click here to visit our MFE/3F seminar page.
Seminar students receive a copy of our PDF Review Notes soon after registration is confirmed.
Our seminar handout, which includes a comprehensive review of important concepts, key formulas and over 200 exam-style questions with solutions, will be provided to students who attend the Chicago seminar.
If you are not quite ready to register for one of our seminars but would like your name added to our list of interested students, please send an email to info@actuarialbrew.com stating which seminar you would prefer. Both seminars have filled to capacity before, so we recommend students register as soon as they know they will be able to attend.
MFE/3F Online Seminar: Spring 2012
Our online MFE/3F seminar is very similar to our live seminars. The online seminar also provides an intensive, comprehensive review of the required material that includes key formulas and concepts as well as over 200 exam-style questions with full video solutions. The online seminar contains about 20 hours of video in 35 segments. Students can watch the segments in any order and pause the seminar at any time. Students can also view the online seminar multiple times.
Check our MFE Seminar page for more information.
To watch a sample of our online seminar, click here.
MFE/3F Review Notes Product Summary (electronic and printed versions)
Our MFE/3F Review Notes can be purchased as either an electronic PDF file or a professionally printed, wire-bound manual. The difference in price reflects the cost to professionally print the hard copy of the Review Notes. Some students may want to order both versions if they are interested in having both an electronic and a professionally printed copy. Please note that due to the electronic nature of the PDF Review Notes, returns cannot be accepted and no refunds for the PDF Review Notes will be possible.
The ActuarialBrew.com Exam MFE/3F Review Notes are a detailed supplement to the McDonald Derivatives Markets text that helps you quickly understand the concepts as you prepare for the exam.
Our MFE/3F Review Notes provide a chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Derivatives Markets text, covering all of the Exam MFE/3F learning objectives with a special focus on:
The MFE/3F Review Notes for the Spring 2012 exam is being updated to incorporate student feedback and to clarify explanations where necessary.
Please note that our MFE/3F Review Notes and MFE/3F Questions are sold separately.
Our PDF Review Notes are provided to students who register for one of our MFE/3F Seminars. Otherwise, our PDF Review Notes can be purchased separately.
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Review Questions: over 650 exam-style practice questions
A solid understanding of the important concepts is crucial, but practice working exam-style questions is the real key to passing Exam MFE/3F. That's why we provide additional worked examples and over 650 exam-style questions in our MFE/3F Review Questions.
All of our practice questions have a difficulty rating assigned to them to help you gauge your progress. Our questions are exam style in that they are multiple-choice questions, and their level of difficulty is similar to that of the actual exam questions.
Please note that the full solutions to the over 650 exam-style Review Questions can be downloaded for free from here or a professionally printed hard copy version can be purchased.
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Complete Solutions
Full solutions to the over 650 exam-style questions are available to download from the MFE Downloads page of our website, or a hard copy version can be purchased from either Actex or the Actuarial Bookstore.
Our solutions use the online normal distribution calculator with the rounding rule specified by the SOA, so you can work the practice problems using the same techniques that you'll use during the exam.
Free Email Support
Students who purchase our MFE/3F Review Notes or MFE/3F Review Questions are also provided free email support from the authors. Our goal is to provide quick responses to the questions we receive, because we are dedicated to help our customers pass the exam.
CAS Exam 3F
The CAS 3F Exam is identical to the SOA MFE Exam.
Errata
The most recent errata can be found on the MFE Downloads page of our website. Please check back periodically for updates.
Product Listing Summary: Spring 2012
For Exam MFE/3F, we offer:
We also offer two different study combo savings packages:
Our Set of 4 Practice Exams are designed to be as close to the exam-taking experience as possible. Not only are the questions exam-style, but it is packaged to look just like the actual exam. Students are encouraged to take the practice exams under exam conditions a few weeks before the actual exam to test their knowledge of the material.
Our Flashcards are printed on card stock and are approximately 4 inches by 5.5 inches. The front of each card tests key formuals and important concepts, which are printed in full on the back of each card. There are approximately 150 cards in our MFE/3F Flashcards.
For Exam FM/2, we offer a Set of 3 FM/2 Practice Exams. Please visit our FM/2 Exam page for more information.
About Us
ActuarialBrew.com is dedicated to providing the highest quality actuarial educational materials to students taking the actuarial exams. Our goal is your exam success.
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Authors
Joe Francis, FSA, CFA and Chris Ruckman, FSA
Francis and Ruckman are the co-authors of Financial Mathematics - A Practical Guide for Actuaries and Other Business Professionals, which is an approved text of the Society of Actuaries for Exam FM and of the Casualty Actuarial Society for Exam 2. The authors each have over 10 years of experience in the actuarial education field related to financial mathematics. They also each have almost 15 years of experience working in the insurance industry.
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