The Austin Seminars:
Review Seminars
for Exams MLC, 3L, andC/4

(and occasional Austin Study Notes)

Dr. James W. Daniel, A.S.A., offers review seminars for Exams MLC/3L & C/4 in Austin, TX, for each exam sitting. [Although we hope to offer an Austin MFE Seminar again in the future, we do not at present since Matt Hassett has moved his successful MFE seminar to his home base in Tempe, AZ; you can contact him at matthassett@cox.net for information.]  More information on location, housing, and each seminar can be found by clicking on the links on the dark green left sidebar or the orange top banner.

This site also offers Austin Study Notes to help learners prepare for actuarial exams. These are not detailed study manuals full of practice problems, but are brief and FREE study aids written in the same learner-friendly style as his SoA/CAS-required Exam MLC/3 SoA Study Note on multistate transition models (Markov chains) that many readers have found easy to master.

Dr. Daniel conducts all MLC/3L and C/4 Seminar activities. The Austin Seminars are a private venture of Dr. Daniel, an academic actuary who is also the Director of the Actuarial Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Since the MLC/3L Seminar covers the content of CAS Exam 3L except for the undergraduate statistics [questions on statistics replace about half the questions on the content of Exam MLC], those taking CAS Exam 3L can prepare by taking the MLC/3L seminar.

Review Seminars are usually scheduled five-to-twelve weeks before the exam. [Experimentation has shown that some people prefer "early-bird" seminars 11 or 12 weeks out, while others perfer the more traditional lead time. Already being familiar with the main ideas in much of the material is the key.]

Jim Daniel's Seminars.

Each MLC/3L or C/4 Seminar is a traditional exam-prep intensive seminar. It assumes that participants have already devoted appreciable time to studying the material and are familiar with the main ideas in much of it. The daily format is about 50% fast-paced lecture, 25% Daniel's demonstrating problem solving, and 25% participants' working on problems with guidance from Daniel.