Check your proof of registration email to confirm whether you are writing at a venue. This information is also found on your exam permit.

Requests to change should be made 3 days before a scheduled exam to check whether your request can be accommodated and will incur a R520 administrative fee. Please contact Jehaan Abrahams, jabrahams@actuarialsociety.org.za.

Unfortunately, you cannot defer your exam registration from one semester to the next. Should you wish to de-register your exam booking, please read the ASSA refund policy on the applicable parameters for a de-registration.

Your candidate number is printed on your exam permit and is unique to every exam registration. The exam permit is made available 2 weeks prior to the exam date. Add your candidate number on your answer scripts before submitting/uploading on the ASSA Exam Platform.

Refer to the ASSA Online Examination Policy for full details on incident reporting.

Call the ASSA office as soon as possible for assistance. Tel: +27 87 073 8940

An in-person invigilator will assist you online on the best way to do this. More information is available in the Examity Test-taker Guide.

No, but you are required to test every semester to refresh on the flow of navigating and any updates since the last time used.  It is essential that you check that your ID document has been uploaded correctly and clearly as ID verification for each exam is required as per the ASSA Online Examination Policy.

Only A211 and A213 (paper A) candidates will be allowed to write the exam. All other exams will be type-only exams.

Any Formulae book information, as determined by the Examiner, will be made available online in the ASSA Exam Platform as part of the exam. Candidates may not use their own Formulae and Tables (orange) books.

You will not be allowed to print the exam paper. Hard copies of exam papers are NOT permitted. Copy/paste of sections of the questions into the answer blocks or MS Office answer templates will be allowed. You will be allowed to have clean scrap paper with you to make notes on and plan.

Refer to the Online Exam Technology Requirements Document for technical and software requirements for all online exams. (Laptops at ASSA venue-based exams will be equipped and loaded with the correct software.)

All candidates must have an updated Adobe Acrobat – (http://get.adobe.com/reader/) on their PCs and ensure their browser permissions are set to allow the opening of the .pdf in a browser tab.

Candidates must be able to install the browser extension for the invigilation service. Installing and deleting Chrome extensions, remote access and sharing of your PC’s microphone (sound) and camera must be allowed by firewalls – please check with your network administrator before the exam

Where MS Office programs such as MS Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint are required, templates will be provided in the exam to download and use. Candidates may not use their own files.

Only Chrome browsers are supported.

Candidates must be able to install the browser extension for the invigilation service. Installing and deleting Chrome extensions, remote access and sharing of your PC’s microphone (sound) and camera must be allowed by firewalls – please check with your network administrator before the exam.

You will access the ASSA Exam Platform through your web interface and must be able to share your screen and upload scripts where applicable.

Ensure you conduct your Test Exam on the same PC and in the same environment where you will be writing your final exam (e.g. if you tested at home ensure you write at home).

Refer to the Online Exam Technology Requirements Document for technical and software requirements.

No dual screens are allowed. The proctoring service does not allow additional devices attached to your PC ports.

Make use of the “Test my equipment” link within the proctoring service to test your PC set up and ensure you take part in the Test Exams that will be set up for all subjects making us of virtual invigilation.

If you are using a larger monitor, your laptop monitor must be closed at all times. Describe this laptop setup through the online incident management platform.

Candidates are not allowed to leave their desk during the exam as this will be flagged as an incident by the proctoring service. If a bathroom break is required, candidates should announce out loud when they leave and when they return.

Yes, you have to maintain connectivity for the full duration of the exam. Internet connectivity is required to access the ASSA Exam Platform. Invigilation is mandatory for the full duration of all examinations. Therefore, the online proctoring service will require access to your webcam and microphone for the duration of the exam. Significant bandwidth is required to record a full 3-hour exam.

If you experience a loss in connectivity, reconnect as quickly as possible. No additional time may be provided to candidates who have lost time due to loss of connectivity. Any loss in connectivity or technology not working properly must be self-reported by the candidate on the ASSA incident form, within 24 hours after the exam has concluded. Invigilation is mandatory for all exams for the full duration of the examination. If you cannot re-connect, call the ASSA office immediately.

If you have any concerns, we strongly recommend that you register to write your exam at an ASSA designated venue.

Candidates are encouraged to practise using special characters and symbols (e.g. using Equation Editor) as well as applying it in the Test Exam environment.

Only A211 and A213 (Paper A) will be written exams.

All candidates who are writing these exams VIRTUALLY must install a scanning app on their smartphone. Most iOS and Android phones have a built-in scanning function or you may choose to download a scanning app. You must ensure that you are familiar with the scanning app before the exams, as well as on how to transfer your scanned answer file from your phone to your PC. Where possible select the “low resolution” option to keep your upload file size minimal. Practise this in the Test Exam.

Phones will be OFF during the exam and accessed only within the limited time to scan and upload into the ASSA Exam Platform. Candidates may not write into scanning time and will be flagged if they do so.

The ASSA venue invigilators will scan the candidates’ scripts when the venue exam closes out. No scan and upload time is included for venue candidates.

No, you may not. Candidates must write their candidate number on the top of each page as part of the 2 hours 15 minutes examination time and not before the start of the examination as per the exam instructions. This rule applies to all ASSA exams and not only A211 and A213a.

The ASSA exams are currently not open book. However, the F200 / B200 subjects will be going open book from Semester 2 2024.

The use of Grammarly and Grammarly Premium or similar is not permitted in examinations. The software application should be disabled before the start of any ASSA examination.  Microsoft Word spellcheck is allowed.

Yes, it is important as there may be technical updates to our online examinations. A record of your full end-to-end testing is crucial should you experience an incident during your examination in order for the Incident Committee to consider mitigating circumstances.

The online proctoring system will flag your movements as suspicious.

ASSA and the IFOA have different governance structures which determine what the standard requirements for exams will be used.

A1 level exams that are outsourced to the IFoA will be written on their standards and according to their rules.

Refer to the suggested screen layout document here, ASSA Exam Screen Layout.