📬 SOA Exam Updates

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Get Distill

Distill Web Monitor is a cloud based application for monitoring website changes. The steps below are for Chrome. But, a Firefox add-on is also available.

Add to Watchlist

  1. Go to the SOA exam registration page: https://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/registration/edu-registration/.

  2. Click the Distill extension icon on the top right, then chooseAdd Monitor > Select parts of page. Hover over the exam selector and click. The XPath expression should be //select[@id='ddlExam'] with the exam options text appearing on the right.

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  1. Click Save selections and set the monitor properties.
  • Name: Give the monitor a name (e.g. Exam Registration | SOA)
  • Schedule checks: Set the interval to 1 day
  • Actions: Add an email action to receive notifications when the registration status (open/closed) changes
  • Conditions: Leave blank or add a condition to filter on specific exams
  • Click the Save button
  1. On the Watchlist page, set the device to run on to webapp. The monitor should be ON with a blue cloud icon next to it. This way, the monitor will run even when you are offline.

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Profit!

Now you'll receive email alerts when your exam opens for registration.

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