Study plans and method

How to split your time between the 100 general questions and the 30 Texas ones.

A study plan for the Texas life and health examMeasure before you study, spend three quarters of your hours on the 100 general questions, take the 30 Texas statute questions as one late block, then…
Four weeks, three of them on the general portionFour weeks at about ten hours a week. Three of those weeks go to the 100 general questions and one to the 30 Texas ones, with two full timed papers in…
Eight weeks, and what the extra four buy youEight weeks at about five hours a week is the same 40 hours as a four-week plan, spread over twice the calendar. What the extra weeks buy is a second …
Two weeks, if the date is already bookedSit a full timed paper on day one before you study anything. If it is close, two weeks is enough to cover the four biggest general sections and the Te…
How to split your time between general and TexasThree to one, general over Texas. The general portion is 100 of the 130 scored questions and 77% of your result; Texas statute is 30. On a 40-hour pla…
Studying for it while working full timeFive hours a week over eight weeks, in half-hour blocks on weeknights, with two protected weekend mornings for full 150-minute timed papers. The const…
When your carrier is paying for the courseTake it. A course someone else paid for is worth more than a course you paid for, and carriers routinely fund a recruit's. Then check five things: whi…
How to learn the near-synonym pairsLearn them as pairs, never one at a time, and write one sentence per pair that names the single thing that differs. The exam puts both members of a pa…
How to learn Texas statute without memorizing itSort the 30 Texas questions by who owes the duty rather than by chapter. Most statute questions have the same shape: an actor, a trigger, a deadline a…
The week before your Texas insurance examTwo full timed papers on different forms, everything else spent on wrong answers, and the statutory deadlines learned last because they decay fastest.…
What to do the night beforeStop studying. Rehearse the pacing plan instead: 130 questions in 150 minutes means the halfway point of the clock should find you at the halfway poin…
How to use a question bank properlyThree modes in order: untimed with immediate feedback while you learn, timed blocks once a section is covered, and full 130-question papers kept back …
When to book your appointmentAfter your mid-plan timed paper, not before it. Pearson VUE takes bookings on demand, so there is no queue to beat and nothing to gain from committing…
What to do after you failDo not rebook yet. A retake is a fresh $49 registration with no waiting period set in the candidate handbook for this license, so the cost is time rat…