Full Student Handbook [pdf]
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Student services

• Contacting us
• Keeping your contact details up-to-date Requires member login

Membership

• Subscriptions
• Surcharges
• Special overseas rate countries - 2008/2009

Dates for your diary

• Education calendar
• Important dates for 2008/2009
  • Examination dates
  • Examination entry forms despatched
  • Examination entry closing dates
  • Examination results published

Student support

• Library services
  • Loans
  • Photocopies
  • Enquiries
  • Study facilities
  • Access to other libraries
  • City University
  • Chartered Insurance Institute
  • Heriot Watt University
• Work permits
• Student concession schemes 
• Student Consultative Committee

The syllabus

• The education and assessment system
  • Core Technical stage
  • Core Applications stage
  • Specialist Technical stage
  • Specialist Applications stage
• UK Practice Modules
• Work-based skills
• The experience requirement
• Suggested study hours and pattern

• Planning a route through the exams
• Reading material
• Tuition for professional examinations
• Guidance on mathematics by subject

Examination arrangements

• Examination entries
• Examination centres
• Special facilities for examinations
• Mitigating circumstances
• Electronic calculators
• Examiners’ advice on rounding calculations
• Examination results
• Examination counselling service
• Examinations appeals policy and procedure

Exemptions

• Exemption from examinations
• Alternative study at Specialist Technical and Specialist Applications stages

You have passed the examinations

• Qualification levels
• Professionalism
  • What is a profession?
  • Regulation of the Actuarial Profession
  • The Professional Conduct Standards
  • Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
  • Disciplinary Scheme

Appendices

• Examination Regulations (Fellowship and Associateship)
• Examination Regulations (UK Practice Modules)
• Regulations for the award of SA0