Exam difficulty
57.7% pass first time, and the published mean sits on the cut.
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- Is the Texas life and health exam hard?57.7% of first-time candidates passed in fiscal year 2025, so a little over four in ten failed. The paper is 130 scored questions in 150 minutes and i…
- Texas Insurance Exam Pass Rates (TDI FY2025)26,427 first-time candidates sat the Texas life and health exam in fiscal year 2025 and 57.7% passed, which is 15,257 people. The mean scaled score wa…
- What TDI publishes every year that nobody readsUnder Texas Insurance Code section 4002.008 the Department files an examination report with the Governor each year, prepared by Pearson VUE. It gives …
- Every Texas insurance exam, ranked by pass rateRanked hardest to easiest by FY2025 first-attempt pass rate: Property and Casualty Risk Manager at 32.4% and Workers Compensation Adjuster at 81.9% ar…
- Why the mean score sits on the pass markTDI publishes no pass mark. It publishes a mean scaled score of 69.75, a standard deviation of 14.51 and a 57.7% first-attempt pass rate. Those three …
- How many hours to study for the Texas life and health examNo hours figure is published for this exam by TDI or Pearson VUE, so every number you see is somebody's estimate. Ours is 40 hours for a candidate sta…
- The general portion versus the Texas portion100 general questions on insurance principles and 30 on Texas statute, sat in one appointment and scored as one result. The general portion is 77% of …
- Which half do candidates fail on?Nobody knows, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. The 100 general questions and the 30 Texas ones are scored as one result, and TDI report…
- The narrower license is the harder examTexas Life Agent passed 46.7% of 21,186 first-time candidates in FY2025. The broader General Lines life, accident and health exam passed 57.7% of 26,4…
- The exam if you are changing careersYou need no degree, no experience and no pre-licensing course. TDI lists three steps: take the exam, get fingerprinted, apply. The exam costs $49 and …