Have you met your PPD requirements?
Personal and Professional Development (PPD) is an essential part of your IFoA qualification. You must record a minimum amount of PPD credits and formal learning hours each year, to sit IFoA exams.
Please make sure you have met your PPD requirements, or you will not be able to book on to IFoA exams.
Essential resources
Preparing for the September 2026 exam session
Curriculum
Find out everything you need to know about what to study, syllabi and more.
Key dates
Assessment regulations
Information on regulations, inappropriate conduct, and plagiarism.
Examinations Handbook
Important information you need to prepare for and sit IFoA exams, including the mini guides.
Qualification handbook
The IFoA qualification handbook, previously the ‘student handbook’, is an essential document for all our members working towards qualification.
Exam and other fees
Fees for all the education services
Past exam papers and examiners’ reports
Past exam papers and examiners’ reports are now exclusively on our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
Exam news
Formulae and Tables 2025 Edition
Related exam resources
Exam exemptions
Discover more about how your prior learning could be equivalent to our examinations
Access arrangements
Command verbs used in the Associate and Fellowship exams
Tuition provision and IFoA study support
Organisations we recognise as appropriate providers of comprehensive tuition and student support services to students preparing for our exams.
Professional Skills Course and CERA booking
Practice Modules
Non-members
Read about sitting our exams as a non-member, becoming a student member and sitting further exams.
Information for employers
How actuarial employers can support their students.