Practice and exam technique

Where the near-synonyms are, and how the distractors are built.

The free Texas life and health practice testThe free mock is 130 questions in 150 minutes, weighted to Pearson's published section counts: 100 general and 30 on Texas statute, scored as one resu…
Texas insurance exam practice questions, and how to use themA usable bank for this exam is weighted to Pearson's published section counts, covers both portions separately, and explains why each wrong option is …
How a Texas insurance exam question is builtEvery item is a stem, one key and three distractors, and the distractors are the engineering. Each wrong option is built from a specific mistake: the …
The near-synonym trap: six pairs this exam is built onMost wrong answers on the general portion are the other half of a pair. Waiver of premium against payor benefit, guaranteed renewable against noncance…
Six distractor patterns in the general portionThe 100 general questions draw on a small set of wrong-answer constructions: the other half of a pair, the right rule under the wrong policy type, a p…
Five distractor patterns in the Texas portionThe 30 Texas questions fail for different reasons than the 100 general ones. Five patterns account for most of it: the wrong actor, the federal rule o…
Pacing 130 questions in 150 minutes150 minutes for 130 scored questions is 1.15 minutes each, and that division is ours. The working rule is simpler: answer one question a minute. You a…
One minute nine seconds a question, and why that average is a lie1.15 minutes a question, which is one minute and nine seconds. That is 150 minutes divided by 130 scored questions, and the division is ours. The aver…
How to read a statute questionA statute question is answered by working out which provision the facts engage, not by recalling a section number. Read for the actor, the event, the …
When to guess on the Texas insurance examAnswer everything. A blank question cannot be scored as correct, so there is no version of this exam where leaving one empty helps. The interesting de…
A worked life insurance questionThree worked items, all written by us. Each shows where its wrong options come from: the other half of a rider pair, a dividend option wearing a nonfo…
A worked health insurance questionThree worked items on accident and health, all written by us. Between them they cover the three confusions that cost most marks in this half of the pa…
A worked Texas statute questionThree worked Texas items, all ours. Each is answered by working out which provision the facts engage rather than by recalling a number, and each distr…
How to use the content outline as a checklistPearson publishes a question count against each of the 13 sections: nine general totaling 100 questions and four Texas totaling 30. Score yourself out…
The questions that are not scored145 questions are administered and 130 are scored. The other 15 are pretest items being trialed for future forms, and you are not told which. They tak…
Reviewing what you got wrongClassify every miss by cause, not by topic. Never knew it, knew it and picked the paired term, misread the stem, or ran out of clock. Those four need …