If I were to take A level before going for actuarial courses, should I enroll in art stream or science stream, or is it the subjects I take that matters?

What if I'm not so sure whether or not to take up actuarial science, is it a wice decision to go into science stream instead of arts stream (with further maths of course)?

I read that an actuarist's qualification comes from the professional exams, so, I'm wondering, if a person graduate from University ABC with a degree in XYZ, and he manage to score in the professional papers, does he qualify to be recognised and work as an actuarist like others?

Is an actuarial student married to the book for the next 10 years of his life?

This post has been edited by xzjasonzx: Jun 9 2009, 05:28 PM

The college of my choice does not have further maths in the arts stream, so should I take up science stream instead or arts stream without the crucial further maths?

Just for curiosity, nowadays actuarial science sumhow became the dream course for everyone who are good in maths, it's like ''oh I got an A in maths, I want to be an actuary'' kind of thing. Will this be like a trend like the IT course 10 years or more ago whereby it suddenly became a popular course and end up there are less jobs compare to the graduates?

I'm asking this because I have seen and heard many people that scored an A+ in spm add maths tend to have the passion to be an actuary someday, is this a false sense that scoring in maths is enough to study actuarial science?

Is there such a high demand for actuary? If many people who are good in maths or even those who scored an A in exams go for actuarial science, would this amount way surpass the actual demand for it in the market?

I ask these questions because actuarial science has become a blooming course in the world where more and more universities provide such course. For parents in thier 40s or 50s, they didn't even heard of this course in the past, and by encouraging their children's dream alone without knowing the actual situation, would this lead to dissapointments or regrets later on?

This post has been edited by xzjasonzx: May 24 2010, 01:13 PM

Is there other jobs besides actuarial-related jobs that a actuarial graduate can do? Like many of engineering graduate end up teaching or stuff like that?

Either the thread is too long or, in this case (actuarial), there are too many threads so the information are scattered all over.

I always wonder too, are most people that want to study actuarial merely attracted by millions of dollar they would make in the future than interest itself IF they pulled through? I mean like, those who loves maths do a degree in maths or statistics would normally end up in doing jobs with average pay, and here comes actuarial that promises millions for them, who wouldn't want to study it? Basically, capitallism means MONEY.

This post has been edited by xzjasonzx: Nov 5 2010, 02:29 PM