Sitting closed book exams – guidance for those on the pathway to qualification

Please note

Please note that times are BST/UTC+1

Tue 12 Aug 2025 -
14:00 - 15:00 (BST)

This interactive session will provide you with guidance on sitting exams in a closed-book/closed-web environment.

In addition to offering guidance for enhancing your performance in a closed-book environment, candidates can also ask our team any questions they may have about sitting closed-book exams.:

  • what the examiners are looking for
  • what the closed-book environment means
  • how to optimise your examination technique, and
  • tips on how to prepare ahead of the examinations. 

Recording

If you are unable to attend the webinar in person, we will publish a recording on our Virtual Learning Environment in the days following the webinar.

Featured speakers

Sally began her actuarial career in pensions consulting. Volunteering for the IFoA as an examiner led to her current role as Education Actuary, where she supports the IFoA’s education curriculum and the development & delivery of professionalism material. She has a particular interest in ethics, neurodiversity, and “all things Actuaries’ Code,” and has used her experience of supporting the communications examination to pen several novels.

Colin is one of the IFoA’s Education Actuaries. Colin mainly focuses on the later subjects including the CP1, CP2, Life insurance, and Health and Care examinations.

Mike is the IFoA's Director of Learning and brings a wealth of experience as a qualified actuary.

Mike qualified through the Faculty of Actuaries in 1992 after which he held positions at Southern Life, Momentum and Metropolitan Life. Since 2013, Mike has been Chief Executive Officer at the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA). The IFoA and ASSA have a close working relationship, with ASSA having benefited significantly over the years from the IFoA’s education and, more recently the IFoA has adopted ASSA’s banking specialist exams.