Students with the academic background to pass other exams that generate transition credit should look carefully at the transition rules in order to maximize credit. Starting in January 2000 . If available, classes in economics and business will provide not only material that may be tested in new Joint Exam 2 but also background for a career that is, after all, a business career with a strong mathematical base. I recommend that faculty members that have students preparing for Joint Exam 1 become familiar with that exam so that they can provide informed advice about how to prepare and so that they can solve the Exam questions that students will invariably bring to them. Contacts and resources There are lots of resources, both formal and informal, for information about actuarial careers, actuarial exams, and actuarial education.
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Actuarial exam systems . Practice actuarial exams . Actuarial education and research . The Section also sponsors and organizes the annual Actuarial Research Conference in August, where many actuarial educators get together. The AFF usually sponsors an MAA session on actuarial education at the combined mathematics meetings each January, and it publishes its free newsletter Conversations .