Online one-to-one tutoring
Ignicion Studio Tutoring runs one-to-one online sessions for actuarial and finance candidates. You bring the syllabus and the exam date. We bring a plan, the problems that expose your gaps, and the patience to work each one until you can do it alone.
Exams
Each exam rewards a different habit. Probability rewards recognizing the distribution quickly. CFA Level II rewards reading a vignette without drowning in it. Sessions are built around the habit your exam pays for.
3 hours · 30 multiple choice
Distributions, joint and conditional probability, transformations. We drill setting up the integral or sum correctly before any calculating starts.
2.5 hours · 30 multiple choice
Annuities, loans, bonds, duration and immunization. Time diagrams first, then the fastest route on the BA II Plus.
3.5 hours · multiple choice
Short-term: severity, frequency, aggregate models, credibility, reserving. Long-term: survival models, insurances, annuities, premiums and reserves.
3.5 hours · multiple choice
Regression, GLMs, time series, trees, principal components and clustering. Concept questions need precise wording, so we practice explaining out loud.
3 hours · written answer
Multiple state and multiple life models, pensions, profit testing and universal life. We practice writing out full solutions that earn the method marks.
3 hours · written answer
Severity and aggregate models, fitting and selecting parametric models, credibility, and pricing and reserving for short-term coverages.
3.5 hours · written answer
Framing the problem, exploring data, GLMs and tree models, and explaining your choices in clear prose under time pressure.
180 multiple choice · two 2 h 15 min sessions
Ten topic areas and a lot of breadth. We prioritize Ethics, Financial Statement Analysis and Fixed Income, and build recall with short mixed quizzes.
88 questions in vignette item sets · two 2 h 12 min sessions
Valuation, accounting adjustments and derivatives pricing inside long case vignettes. We train reading the questions first and pulling only the numbers you need.
Constructed response and item sets · 4 h 24 min
Portfolio Management, Private Markets or Private Wealth pathway. We mark your written answers the way graders do: short, direct, and tied to the case facts.
Formats are as published by the Society of Actuaries and CFA Institute. Check the current syllabus before you register, since both bodies revise their exams.
Method
The order matters. We find out what you can already do before deciding what to teach.
Fifteen minutes on your exam, your date, your week, and what went wrong last time if there was a last time.
A short timed problem set across the syllabus. It shows the real gaps so nobody has to guess.
A week-by-week plan from today to exam day, sized to the hours you actually have.
Sixty or ninety minutes. You do the solving, we step in when the setup goes wrong. Notes and a problem set follow each one.
Full timed mocks in the final weeks. Every miss goes into your error log and gets redone.
Planner
Pick your exam and date, set the hours you can honestly study each week, and see whether the numbers add up.
Targets use common rules of thumb: about 300 hours per CFA level, and about 100 study hours per exam hour for SOA exams. Treat them as a starting estimate.
Pricing
The first call is free. After that, pay per session or commit to a block and pay less per hour.
$95 per 60 min
For a specific topic that will not click, or a second opinion on your mock results.
$850 saves $100
For steady weekly work across one section of the syllabus.
$1,800 one exam
For candidates who want everything from diagnostic to the final mock handled.
Resources
Free to use whether or not you ever book a session.
For every question you miss, write four things: the question reference, the topic, why you missed it, and the fix. Sort the "why" into concept, setup, arithmetic or time.
Redo each logged question after three days and again after two weeks. A question leaves the log only when you get it right cold.
The BA II Plus is on the approved calculator lists for both SOA exams and the CFA Program. Use the same unit in practice that you will take to the test center.
CFA candidates commonly report about 300 hours per level. For SOA exams the usual rule is 100 hours of study for each hour of exam, so roughly 300 for P and 250 for FM.
Divide by your real weekly hours, then add two weeks for life getting in the way. The planner above does the arithmetic.
Full length, timed, approved calculator only, phone in another room, and at the same time of day as your appointment.
Then spend as long reviewing as you spent sitting. The score matters less than knowing why each wrong answer was wrong.
FAQ
We meet by video call and work on a shared whiteboard, so you can see every line of a solution being written and write your own. The whiteboard notes are sent to you afterwards. A laptop and a steady connection are enough. A tablet and stylus help but are optional.
Most candidates for these exams do. Sessions run on weekday evenings and weekends in your time zone, and the study plan is built from the hours you really have, including busy periods at work.
No, and be wary of anyone who does. You get a realistic plan, sessions spent on the problems costing you the most marks, and a straight answer about whether you look ready when the exam is close.
With your result. The SOA reports a score from 0 to 10 with 6 as a pass, and CFA Institute shows how you did by topic. Bring whichever you have, along with your study record, and the diagnostic will show whether the problem was coverage, speed or exam technique.
Your study manual or the official curriculum, an approved calculator, and the work you did since last session. If you do not have materials yet, ask on the free call and we will suggest what suits your exam.
Three to five months before the sitting is typical. Starting in the last four weeks still helps, but the sessions will be mock review and triage instead of teaching the syllabus.
Yes. The free call is a fine place for that. We can go through what each credential involves, how the exams differ, and which first exam fits your background.
Yes, if you are sitting the same exam in the same window. Groups of two to four are priced per person. See pricing.
About
You meet each idea inside a question that needs it. The theory then has something to attach to.
Watching a tutor solve a problem feels like learning and mostly is not. You do the solving, and we correct the setup.
If your mocks say you are not ready, you will hear it early enough to do something about it.
Book
Tell us which exam and when. You will get a reply with times for a call, and no obligation to book anything after it.