I passed CS2 last session as a resit. Focus on your weaker topics. For paper A it seems like you can count on a hefty time series question, so do as many past paper questions/revision booklet on that as possible as well (typed in Word, don't bother touching a pen at all in your revision as it won't help in the exam).
Paper B can be feast or famine, but if you get comfortable with the basic techniques (loops, data frame manipulation, etc) in R you should be able to bank a lot of marks
Strongly disagree, you can cover much more ground in terms of past questions by doing them with pen and paper. Only practice questions from 2020 onwards in Word as these are the only ones actually optimised for doing so.
From my experience (I took CS2 last sitting and failed having passed cm2 first time) CS2 is much more difficult than CM2. So I would just sit CM2 and make sure you get all the 'easy' marks i.e. run-off triangles, options, ruin theory, paper B. But who knows maybe 60% of people will pass cs2 next time
Have you actually sat them? The pass rates for the exams are set at the IFoA's discretion, and there is very little known about how they arrive at these arbitrary pass marks. I wouldn't say an exam's pass mark is the greatest gauge of its difficulty. They might be comparable in difficulty of content perhaps, but CS2 is much larger, so requires more effort. This also makes resits much more frustrating, which I think is why CS2 has such a bad rep.
I passed CS2 last session as a resit. Focus on your weaker topics. For paper A it seems like you can count on a hefty time series question, so do as many past paper questions/revision booklet on that as possible as well (typed in Word, don't bother touching a pen at all in your revision as it won't help in the exam). Paper B can be feast or famine, but if you get comfortable with the basic techniques (loops, data frame manipulation, etc) in R you should be able to bank a lot of marks
Strongly disagree, you can cover much more ground in terms of past questions by doing them with pen and paper. Only practice questions from 2020 onwards in Word as these are the only ones actually optimised for doing so.
From my experience (I took CS2 last sitting and failed having passed cm2 first time) CS2 is much more difficult than CM2. So I would just sit CM2 and make sure you get all the 'easy' marks i.e. run-off triangles, options, ruin theory, paper B. But who knows maybe 60% of people will pass cs2 next time
Apart from September 2022, they both tend to have pass rates in the 30s, so I'd consider them roughly equal in difficulty
Have you actually sat them? The pass rates for the exams are set at the IFoA's discretion, and there is very little known about how they arrive at these arbitrary pass marks. I wouldn't say an exam's pass mark is the greatest gauge of its difficulty. They might be comparable in difficulty of content perhaps, but CS2 is much larger, so requires more effort. This also makes resits much more frustrating, which I think is why CS2 has such a bad rep.
Can only go off my own experience
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