Customize your learning with our ASM Interactive Study Manual Program. The ALTAM Study Program includes GOAL, flashcards, and more! The study materials are hosted on our eLearning platform and include formula sheets, topic search, and a planner to help you stay on track with your studying. 

Your ASM Study Manual Program comes with: 

Study Manual Program

• 900+ pages of exam-focused information with full syllabus coverage


• 134 Examples


• 730+ Practice Exercises (including 30 Workbook questions)


• 24 Quizzes


• 7 Full-Length Exams with 42 questions  


• Includes Appendix with SOA Old Exam Solutions


• 1,400+ GOAL questions and solutions for you to practice


• 6 simulated exams in GOAL (including SOA Recent Exams)


• Measure how prepared you are with GOAL Score, a score of 70 or above indicates readiness


• 234 flashcards so you can master key topics and formulas

Instructional Videos

• 64+ Instructional Videos


• 8+ hours of video content

Graded Mock Exam

Practice with the ACTEX ALTAM Graded Mock Exam - a great way to predict your exam outcome! Before you take the official ALTAM exam - take the ACTEX ALTAM Graded Mock Exam and get feedback from an expert.

This Graded Mock Exam has all the typical elements your SOA exam will have plus the questions and format are set up just like the SOA ALTAM exam.

How does it work?

• Only 50 Graded Mock exams accepted for the April ‘25 exam


• You will receive the ACTEX ALTAM Graded Mock Exam by mid February


• The Graded Mock Exam will come in a PDF format. You will write your solutions on your own paper.


• Take the exam in the allotted time so you can simulate the 3 hours that will be given at the actual exam


• To submit your solutions for grading, you will scan and email to the instructor (last submission date TBD)


• Yufeng Guo will review, grade and provide written feedback within 2 weeks

More Information About Your Study Program and Expert Professors

On Exam FAM-L, you learned the basics of life insurance mathematics; mortality models, insurances, annuities, premiums, and reserves. On ALTAM, we discuss more general long-term insurances. Sometimes insurance covers more than one life. Sometimes the benefit depends on how one died. And there are other long-term products to analyze, such as disability income and long term care. We discuss all of these products, and also discuss pricing and analysis of profit. This manual offers comprehensive coverage of the ALTAM syllabus. Written by renowned ASM author Abraham Weishaus, Ph.D., FSA, CFA, MAAA, this text aims to efficiently prepare you to pass your ALTAM exam.

Abraham Weishaus Ph.D., FSA, CFA, MAAA

Abraham was formerly a financial reporting actuary for Guardian Life Insurance Company. He served on the SOA's Education and Examination Committee for 11 years. He also taught exam preparation courses for the Actuarial Society of Greater New York (ASNY) for 15 years, for CAMAR for 6 years, and for St. Johns University for 5 years. Abe is currently a professor at Columbia University, where he has been teaching for over 10 years. He has been an ASM author for over 20 years and publishes material for exams P, FAM, ALTAM, ASTAM, SRM, MAS-I, and MAS-II.

Yufeng Guo, ASA

Yufeng Guo immigrated to the U.S. from China in 1996 and has been an actuary for 20 years. He is a career ASA currently working for Mutual of Omaha, Nebraska.

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• Online in your web browser


• Offline via the free desktop player (PC or Mac)


• Online/offline via mobile application (Android or iPhone)


• Take notes & highlight content

Some restrictions apply

• 6 and 12-month licenses available


• Compatible with PC, Mac, Android or iPhone


• No printing


• Single user (sharing and/or resale is prohibited)


• Access to content on up to four devices Offline use for up to 5 days at a time


• There are no returns on the Graded Mock Exam. Please contact the bookstore if you need to extend your Graded Mock Exam license to the next sitting.