Everything you need to prepare.

Official Core Reading and syllabus for Actuarial Mathematics. Includes learning objectives, examinable content, and reading list.

Official Core Reading for Actuarial Statistics. Covers probability, GLMs, Bayesian methods, and time series.

Official syllabus for Risk Modelling and Survival Analysis, including compulsory R programming component.

Complete list of IAI exam syllabi: CS1, CS2, CM1, CM2, CB1, CB2, CB3, CP1, CP2, CP3, SP series and SA series. Includes ACET syllabus.

Official IFoA past exam papers with examiner reports. Available free on the IFoA website. Papers from 2017 onwards are available.

Past papers for all IAI subjects. Available on the IAI website after registration. ACET past papers are also available.

Specimen papers for the 2019 curriculum reform, an essential reference for understanding the new exam format alongside old CT papers.

ActEd is IFoA's approved notes provider. CMP (Combined Materials Pack) includes Course Notes, Practice Questions, and the X1–X5 Assignments. Official and comprehensive.

BPP Actuarial Education offers course materials aligned to the IFoA curriculum. Available as digital or print.

Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks by Dickson, Hardy, Waters. The definitive CM1 reference text. Available on Cambridge University Press.

Standard reference for CS2 loss models and non-life actuarial statistics. Used in North American and UK actuarial exams.

Check our complete guide to which calculators are approved for IFoA and IAI exams: the Casio fx-991 (IFoA) and fx-82 (IAI).

The official mortality tables used in IFoA exams: A67-70, A1967-70, English Life Tables, and the Select Tables. Provided in the exam.

CS2 requires R programming. This free online course covers R basics through to survival analysis and GLMs in R. Ideal pre-study.

Official exam dates, registration deadlines, and results dates for all IFoA April and September 2026 sessions.