Specialist Maths for Actuarial Studies

[Gloamglozer]

And here's the other side.  This is the actual program:

[lacoste]

hey, where did you get that for gloam ?

are other majors listed like this?

thx

[Gloamglozer]

hey, where did you get that for gloam ?

are other majors listed like this?

thx

I grabbed a copy of almost all the brochures in the Economics Faculty at The University of Melbourne Open Day yesterday.  The "actuarial studies" is a major of the B.Com at UoM.  What else are you interested in?

[lacoste]

Could you also post up the guides of Management at UoM if thats not any trouble?

Just wondering the exact subjects needed in that. The website have only a very brief subject plan

[zzdfa]

lacoste, do you mean handbook.unimelb.edu.au?

[Ilovemathsmeth]

Thanks so much

[Ilovemathsmeth]

sure spesh it's more suited to engineers, but the other stuff you learn is still useful;dynamics/statics are only a small part of the spesh course
also the reasoning, problem solving abilities blah blah blah that you get by doing spesh are good.

then again everything you learn in high school you will relearn in uni, I guess they just want to make sure you can keep up (i.e. if you can't get >37 in spesh you won't succeed in acc maths 1/2).
You could probably talk to someone at UoM and ask them if you would be able to get into acc maths 1/2 without spesh, I think they would let you with your methods score.

i am just curious, why did you not do spesh if you love maths so much?

Haha thanks for your suggestions!

No worries, I didn't take it because people told me that doing both a LOTE and Specialist in year 12 would hamper your performance rather than enhance it. I was doing French, but lost interest in the subject after having a pretty good year and then ended up having no LOTE and no Specialist

[QuantumJG]

I have read in a booklet that Specialist Maths is not a prerequisite for Actuarial Studies. I am keen to pursue it but I do not do Specialist Maths. What kind of alternative course pathway is there for me to take and is it even possible to do it without Specialist? Your advice is appreciated!

Specialist maths is a prerequisite for actuarial studies. This is what I hate about people who do methods and further and not methods and specialist maths. Since you got a 49 raw for maths methods last year, a 38 in specialist maths would have been EASY. For actuarial studies you need to do accelerated maths (entry requirement is 37+ in specialist maths) for some reason. You could potentially try and ask them since you got an almost perfect score for methods whether you could do some form of bridging.

the maths I enjoy though is pure and applied, but, statistics yuck.