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Hong KongYour course was written for the old outline. Keep it, remap it, or replace it
The current outline is Pearson publication 124401, effective 1 September 2026. Test your material with five checks: a stated effective date, 13 sections split nine general and four Texas, general counts summing to 100, Texas counts summing to 30, and a separate Texas section on health maintenance organizations.
A content outline changed on 1 September 2026, and material written against the previous one describes a paper that is no longer set. That is a specific, dated, checkable thing rather than a general warning about freshness, so this page treats it as one.
We hold the current outline, publication 124401, in full. We do not hold the previous one. So we cannot publish a list of what moved, and we are not going to reconstruct one from memory or from what other sites claim. What we can do is state exactly what the current outline says and give you a test you can run yourself. If anyone hands you a detailed before-and-after, ask them where they got the previous version.
The current specification, in numbers
- Outline
- TEXAS Insurance Supplement, Pearson publication 124401
- Effective
- 1 September 2026
- Sections
- 13 in total, nine general and four Texas
- Scored questions
- 130, from 145 administered
- General portion
- 100 questions, counts of 15, 15, 12, 8, 16, 15, 6, 5 and 8
- Texas portion
- 30 questions, counts of 14, 6, 7 and 3
- Time
- 150 minutes
- Exam code
- InsTX-LAH05
The five checks
- Does your material state an effective date for the outline it follows, anywhere at all? A course that will not say is the answer to the question
- Does it organize the syllabus into 13 numbered sections, nine on the general side and four on Texas?
- Do its general section counts sum to 100? If it gives no per-section counts, it is not using the published outline, because Pearson publishes one for every section
- Do its Texas section counts sum to 30, at 14, 6, 7 and 3?
- Is there a Texas section of its own for health maintenance organizations, carrying 3 questions? Material that treats Texas law as one undivided block is not following the current structure
Check five is the fastest. Open the contents page, look for the four Texas headings, and see whether HMOs get their own. Ten seconds.
Then decide: keep, remap or replace
| If | Do this |
|---|---|
| It fails the checks but you have barely started | Replace it. You have lost nothing but the price, and studying to the wrong specification for six weeks costs far more than the material did |
| It fails the checks and you are halfway through | Remap rather than replace. The general 100 is standard insurance content and it ages slowly. Print the current outline and use it as the index into what you already have |
| It fails only on the Texas sections | That is the common case and it is fixable for nothing. The Insurance Code is free and complete, and the Texas portion is 30 questions |
| It passes all five checks | Carry on, and stop worrying about this |
Our opinion, and it argues against selling you a replacement: outdated general material is much less dangerous than people assume. Whole life did not change on 1 September. What changes when an outline is revised is emphasis, structure and how many questions a topic carries, and you can correct all three with a free PDF and an afternoon of re-indexing.
Where an old outline genuinely bites
The Texas 30. Statute moves, the outline follows it, and a course that has not been rewritten is teaching you a version of Texas law from whenever its author last read the Code. That is the portion where being current actually matters, and it is also the portion you can rebuild for nothing, because the Code is public.
The weighting matters too. 14 of the 30 Texas questions come from a single section on statutes and rules common to life and health. If your material spreads Texas evenly across four chapters, you are under-preparing the section that carries nearly half the portion, whichever outline it was written for.
The email to send your provider
One line: which version of the TEXAS Insurance Supplement content outline is this course written to, and when was the Texas material last revised? A provider that has done the work answers in a sentence and gives you the effective date. A provider that has not will answer about how often they update in general, which is a different question and you should read it as one.
Ask the same of us. Our 13 lesson chapters are one per section of the current outline, and our 5 mock forms are weighted to its published counts. That is the claim, and the five checks above are how you would catch us if it were not true.
One thing not to do
Do not throw away a manual because a forum post said the exam changed. Run the checks first. Plenty of material sold today is current, plenty of alarm about outline changes is marketing from whoever wants to sell you the replacement, and the only way to tell the difference is to hold the material against the outline yourself.
Common questions
When did the Texas insurance exam content outline change?
The current TEXAS Insurance Supplement content outline, Pearson publication 124401, took effect on 1 September 2026. Material written against the previous version describes a paper that is no longer set, which is a dated and checkable claim rather than a general freshness warning.
How do I tell which outline my study material follows?
Five checks: a stated effective date, 13 numbered sections split nine general and four Texas, general counts summing to 100, Texas counts of 14, 6, 7 and 3, and a Texas section of its own for health maintenance organizations carrying 3 questions.
What actually changed in the new outline?
We cannot tell you, because we hold the current outline and not the previous one, and reconstructing a diff we have not verified would be guessing. What we can give you is exactly what the current one says, which is enough to test any material against.
Should I throw out material written for the old outline?
Usually not. The 100 general questions cover standard insurance content that ages slowly, so remapping it against the current outline is normally enough. The Texas 30 is where being current matters, and that portion can be rebuilt from the free Insurance Code.
What should I ask a provider about outline updates?
Which version of the TEXAS Insurance Supplement the course is written to, and when the Texas material was last revised. An answer with an effective date in it means the work was done. An answer about how often they update in general does not.