The content outline changed on 1 September 2026

This is a dated, checkable fact rather than a warning. An outline took effect on a specific day, it is a specific public document, and anything describing the paper differently is describing a paper that is no longer set.

The document

That publication number is the thing to note. It is how you check whether a document in front of you is the current outline or somebody's summary of an older one, and it takes about four seconds.

What the current outline specifies

Nine general sections and four Texas ones, with a question count published against each. The counts sum exactly to 100 and 30, which is a useful property because it means an incomplete list is detectable by arithmetic.

Every one of those counts is Pearson's own. Add the general column and you get 100. Add the Texas column and you get 30. If a study guide's contents page does not reconcile to those two totals, it is not built on this document.

What we can tell you about the change, and what we cannot

We hold the outline effective 1 September 2026. We do not hold the superseded version, so we cannot publish a section-by-section diff, and we are not going to describe changes we have not verified.

That is a limitation and it is also less of one than it sounds. You do not need a diff. You need to know what the paper is set against now, and to check whether your material matches it. The table above is the specification; comparison is a job you can do in ten minutes with your own study guide open.

Why a content outline change matters more here than on most exams

Because the counts are published to the section. On an exam where the syllabus is a list of topics with no weights, an outline revision changes emphasis and study material drifts slowly out of alignment without anyone noticing.

Here every section carries a number. If a count moved, the correct allocation of your study time moved with it, precisely and by a knowable amount. Material built on the old numbers points your hours at the wrong sections, and it does so with the confidence of something that used to be right.

The Texas portion is the exposed half

The general portion is insurance principles. Whole life, riders, provisions, disability income, Medicare. That material is durable and an outline revision rarely makes it wrong.

The Texas portion is statute, and statute changes because legislatures meet. Four sections, 30 questions, drawn from the Texas Insurance Code and from Title 28 of the Administrative Code. That is where an outdated study guide is most likely to be teaching you something that is no longer the rule, rather than merely something the exam no longer weights the same way.

Our own position, stated so you can discount it appropriately: we hold 47 chapters of the Texas Insurance Code in full, which is how our Texas questions can cite the section an answer turns on. We do not hold Title 28, which the outline also cites throughout the state portion, and we are not going to write as though we do.

What to do about it

1. Download publication 124401 and check the effective date on it yourself
2. Open your study material's contents and compare its structure to the 13 sections above
3. Add up the question counts your material claims and check them against 100 and 30
4. Ask any provider you are paying, in writing, which outline their material is built on

That fourth step is the one nobody does and it is the one that gets a straight answer. Is your study material written for the old outline sets out the specific tests to run before you rely on anything.