I don't think you are doing enough on your part. There are alot of resources online, such as http://www.beanactuary.org/ etc.

or, try searching the Education Essential thread, there are tons of discussions going on there.

As for job scope, there are different actuarial related work in different insurance field, mainly pricing of life insurance, general insurance, reinsurance, and risk management.

The works are mostly in pricing of insurance products, reserve making, risk management and most importantly, actuarial reporting.

just because you never heard of any jpa scholars doing actuarial studies doesnt mean there's none.

I am also a JPA scholar doing actuarial studies. graduated 1-2 years back.

elite course or not, the requirement to be a fully qualified actuary is no doubt not easy.

I am an overseas actuarial studies grad, sponsored by JPA, stop making assumptions about how the scholarship system works.

yes, to get into the the program is not hard, but upon 2nd, 3rd year, most of these "non 4 flat" students will drop out, it's not for everyone.

This post has been edited by kwh1989: Jun 30 2013, 09:56 AM