Exam SRM is offered three times a year, in a testing window of seven days. Registration for the 2027 sittings opens the week of October 26, 2026.
Next sitting
January 5 to 11, 2027; register by December 8, 2026
Registration opens
The week of October 26, 2026
Fee
$357
Format
35 multiple-choice questions in 3.5 hours, on a computer at a Prometric center
Result
Unofficial pass or fail by email within one hour
Every sitting
Testing window
Registration deadline
January 5 to 11, 2027
December 8, 2026
May 21 to 27, 2027
April 20, 2027
September 7 to 13, 2027
August 10, 2027
How to choose a sitting
Count back from the window, and leave the last weeks for full practice exams.
Register early in the registration period to get the test center and day you want.
With three sittings a year, missing one means a wait of about four months for the next.
After the exam
You get an unofficial pass or fail by email from Prometric within an hour. SOA posts the official scores to your transcript about eight weeks after the exam: for the September 2026 sitting, the pass list is due on November 6, 2026 and transcripts on November 9.
Try 2 questions
Question 1
An auto insurer models claim severity, in dollars, using driver age in years (age), vehicle value in thousands of dollars (value) and an urban indicator (urban). The ordinary least squares output is below.
Residual standard error: 363.273 on 36 degrees of freedom. Multiple R-squared: 0.7946, adjusted R-squared: 0.7775.
Which of the following statements best interprets the estimated coefficient of value?
Question 2
Monthly counts of new commercial policies are smoothed with single exponential smoothing, s^t=(1−w)yt+ws^t−1, with w=0.7 and starting value s^1=y1. The counts for months 1 to 6 are: