So I tried taking the first of my three practice "Course 2" actuarial examinations today.

Turns out that it took me. Completely. I gave up after the first twenty-five questions, because I hadn't been able to answer enough of them to really make looking at the second half of the exam worthwhile. (End results: five correct out of the eight I answered, of the twenty-five I looked at.)

So now I have two months until the next exam, and a whole lotta book-learnin' to accomplish before then. I think I underestimated this one.