Joshua Jacob Newkirk, FCAS
Exams & Designations (2007 - Present)
NAME_ID | LAST_NAME | FIRST_NAME | DESIGNATIONS | SHORT_NAME | DATE_PASSED | SITTING_ID | EXAM_ID | CATEGORY | NUM_WROTE | NUM_PASSED | PASS_RATE | AVERAGE PASS RATE | PASS_MARK | SOCIETY | TYPE | CHANGE | DUPLICATE | PASS_RATE_DIFF | DISPLAY_DATE | URL |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | FM | 6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM | 94 | 41 | Preliminary | 4847 | 2357 | 48.6 | 47.9 | 70.0 | SOA | Exam | 1 | 0 | 0.7 | Jun-2008 | fm |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | P | 1/1/2009 12:00:00 AM | 135 | 59 | Preliminary | 2664 | 1021 | 38.3 | 42.7 | 62.0 | SOA | Exam | 1 | 0 | -4.4 | Jan-2009 | p |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | MFE | 5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM | 306 | 55 | Preliminary | 3404 | 1515 | 44.5 | 45.8 | 71.0 | SOA | Exam | 1 | 0 | -1.3 | May-2011 | mfe |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | MLC | 5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM | 307 | 56 | Preliminary | 2892 | 1381 | 47.8 | 41.5 | 64.0 | SOA | Exam | 1 | 0 | 6.3 | May-2011 | mlc |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | C | 2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM | 371 | 17 | Preliminary | 1461 | 665 | 45.5 | 45.6 | 67.0 | SOA | Exam | 1 | 0 | -0.1 | Feb-2012 | c |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | 5 | 5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM | 399 | 3 | Preliminary | 895 | 431 | 48.2 | 40.5 | 72.1 | CAS | Exam | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | May-2012 | 5 |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | 6-U.S. | 11/1/2012 12:00:00 AM | 441 | 8 | Preliminary | 1108 | 407 | 36.7 | 42.5 | 69.0 | CAS | Exam | 1 | 0 | -5.8 | Nov-2012 | 6-us |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | 7 | 5/1/2014 12:00:00 AM | 605 | 9 | Fellowship | 300 | 173 | 57.7 | 46.2 | 74.1 | CAS | Exam | 1 | 0 | 11.5 | May-2014 | 7 |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | ACAS | 5/1/2014 12:00:00 AM | 629 | 73 | Preliminary | | | | | | CAS | Designation | 1 | 0 | | May-2014 | acas |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | 8 | 10/1/2014 12:00:00 AM | 655 | 12 | Fellowship | 729 | 350 | 48.0 | 39.1 | 62.2 | CAS | Exam | 1 | 0 | 8.9 | Oct-2014 | 8 |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | 9 | 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM | 735 | 13 | Fellowship | 458 | 185 | 40.4 | 49.4 | 69.4 | CAS | Exam | 1 | 0 | -9.0 | May-2015 | 9 |
ykhsgw | Newkirk | Joshua Jacob | FCAS | FCAS | 11/1/2015 12:00:00 AM | 812 | 74 | Fellowship | | | | | | CAS | Designation | 1 | 0 | | Nov-2015 | fcas |
'Pass Rate Difference' =
pass rate for that exam sitting - historical average pass rate
This individual may have registered for exams under different names. The following person(s) may also refer to the person currently displayed:-
Joshua Newkirk
Duplicate names are those names believed to refer to more than one person because the person passed the same exam more than once or passed
exams in an incompatible order. Read more about duplicate names
here.

Exam Speed and Difficulty Analysis
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Speed Ranking
522 / 1,253
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The speed with which this person completed exams is not yet ranked. To become eligible for inclusion in the ranking system, more exams must be completed.
The speed with which this person completed exams is not ranked because they have been flagged as a duplicate name. Duplicate names are ineligible for inclusion in the ranking system.
SOA Preliminary Exams 3.67 years 36.4%
Faster than me: 9,260 | Equal to me: 179 | Slower than me: 5,121
ACAS Designation 5.92 years 58.3%
Faster than me: 681 | Equal to me: 11 | Slower than me: 941
FCAS Designation 7.42 years 58.4%
Faster than me: 521 | Equal to me: 14 | Slower than me: 717
years
Faster than me: | Equal to me: | Slower than me:
Difficulty Ranking
8,201 / 13,164
UNRANKED
The difficulty of this person's exams is not yet ranked. To become eligible for inclusion in the ranking system, more exams must be completed.
The difficulty of this person's exams is not ranked because they have been flagged as a duplicate name. Duplicate names are ineligible for inclusion in the ranking system.
SOA Preliminary Exams +1.2 37.7%
Harder than me: 8,200 | Equal to me: 71 | Easier than me: 4,892
CAS Fellowship Exams +13.3 28.5%
Harder than me: 4,520 | Equal to me: 18 | Easier than me: 1,787
Cumulative Travel Time Distributions
Percentage of exam writers who reached milestone faster than given travel time
AVERAGE TRAVEL TIMES
For those with first exam pass in Jun-2008
SOA Preliminary Exams3.55 years (212 people)
Joshua is slower by 0.12 years
Joshua is not part of this category
There are no people in this category
ACAS Designation6.74 years (28 people)
Joshua is faster by 0.82 years
Joshua is not part of this category
There are no people in this category
FCAS Designation8.63 years (29 people)
Joshua is faster by 1.21 years
Joshua is not part of this category
There are no people in this category
()
Joshua is not part of this category
There are no people in this category
No one has yet to complete enough exams to join a category.
Note: the number of people quoted above are what the average travel time for each category is based on.
Travel Times vs. Date of First Exam Pass
This graph aims to show how travel times are changing over time
Note on the analysis above:
Speed Percentile = (Slower Than Me + Equal To Me) / (Slower Than Me + Equal To Me + Faster Than Me)
Difficulty Percentile = (Easier Than Me + Equal To Me) / (Easier Than Me + Equal To Me + Harder Than Me)
The above (far) graph is constructed in such a way that the annotated percentiles shown with circles are the complement of the percentiles
in red table, ie: percentile in red table = (1 - percentile in graph). This ensures the graph maintains the familiar standard cumulative distribution look
while the percentiles in the red table remain intuitive- ie. higher percentile meaning faster exam progress and vice versa.
Note that the 'Equal To Me' column does not include the person in question, therefore the total
number of people included in each category can be calculated as the sum of the three columns plus one.
The 'X / Y' ranking shown in the headers of the red and blue tables are the highest ranking categories (by percentile) achieved by that individual.
The above (near graph) compares individual travel times to the average travel times on the date of the first exam pass.
Each line represents the average travel time for all exam takers who passed their first exam on the given date along the x-axis.
This graph necessarily slopes downward since the completion of a set of exams that started more recently must necessarily have occured within
within a shorter timespan than exams started earlier. Over time, the left portion of the graph will reveal if travel times are changing over time -
if they are not, then that portion of the graph should remain flat.