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Depends on how you define drop out rate, I'd say half couldn't get the marks and left, but some repeat the course so they become the cohort beneath me, and the other half just decided they didn't like actuarial that much and changed to something else. I've changed my degree twice by now (not the...

It's okay, about 200 start the course in first year, right now I'm in 3rd year we got about 120 left

Believe it or not, actuarial cohorts are almost 50-50 girl/guy LOL

It's the same course career-wise, I have plenty of friends at Umacq there's no difference, you get the same amount of qualifications when you graduate in either uni. If you think its easier to get Part II's in Macq, its a myth. What they do is they scale it so a certain percentage of the cohort...

Sorry, when I said 3-4 years I mean the Part III's only, the ones you do externally after you finish your degree. So assuming you start uni at like 19 or something, 3/4 year degree (if you want to do combined) gives you Part I and II (only if you do 4 year degree), plus 3/4 year doing Part...

Are those jobs interstate? Personally would not go Perth even if I was paid 100k :P

Yeah you're on the computer about 3/4 of the time. Not too many softwares too learn, Excel is the standard, plus maybe 1-2 depending on what area you work in

Well my plan (or lack of one) was to just make a generic one, figure out how I can answer a small selection of generic questions, then pray. Just find as many questions as you can and think about what you'd do if you got that question

You probably shouldn't, but I had no respect for Eng Adv and memorised/reproduced literally word for word in trials and HSC to my band 6, no regrets would do again. Seriously it felt like as long as my essay sounded good, it got good marks. Did I answer the question? Probably got lucky but it...

Truong does accept new students, not based on ability but availability in his classes. Just give him a call and ask him. Source: I joined in end of year 11, now I teach there.

I can only speak for actuarial studies since I do that and not engineering, so I can only address some of the things you said. Firstly, I don't think actuarial work will get outsourced in the near future and the job prospects is fairly decent, as long as you have above average marks and can do...

I think they select the group first, so irrespective of how many in each group. So you must select group 1 first then select a female out of group 1, and there's 2 groups so 1/2. If he was choosing from a pool of both group 1 and 2, then it asks for whats the probability that a person picked...

ECON2101 micro 2, if you know some basic math and differentiation it is so easy

curious, Quantium?

No worries, let me know if you have any other questions

Take this from a penultimate student doing actuarial studies at UNSW who knows plenty about Macquarie too, it makes no difference where you go. Your double degree will most likely not benefit you at all. I started off in mathematics then changed to economics and then dropped that too, my marks...

Hey there, I can only answer for UNSW since I'm studying actuarial there. Part II's are done in your fourth year so if you do a single 3 year degree, you can either do a honors year, extend your 3 year to 4 years by underloading, or just take the Part II subjects as non-award studies. Here's...

Depends on how much risk you willing to take ;)

Hey all, Are you starting an actuarial studies degree here at UNSW in 2014? If you are, make yourself known in this roll call :) The Actuarial Society of UNSW (ASOC) and one of our lecturers from the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies have created a dedicated first year page for you...

I combined it with Adv. Math and then changed to Economics because I got bored. But to answer your question, if you want to be an actuary, then there is literally no difference between any of the degrees. Except maybe with a Math degree you're more favourably looked upon by some very...