“Actuarial Science - overview, career pathways, and the Society of Actuaries' Probability Exam” 
by Yew-Meng Koh, PhD, Mathematics and Statistics Department and Meredith Peterson ’21 and Ben Walters ‘22

Actuarial Science is an interesting and practical field, with rewarding career outcomes. The American Society of Actuaries offers a sequence of exams, the passing of which allows certification in this field. One of these exams is the Probability Exam (P Exam), for which Hope has a MATH365/366 course sequence in Fall 2022 which helps interested students in their preparation. In this talk, a brief overview of Actuarial Science and its possible career pathways will be presented. We will then focus on the P Exam by discussing its requirements and looking at some interesting problems from past exams (which do not require prior knowledge of probability). We will end with comments and advice from some students who passed the P Exam in its Jan 2021 offering.