How to use the content outline as a checklist

The most useful study document for this exam is free, it is short, and almost nobody reads it. It is the TEXAS Insurance Supplement content outline, Pearson publication 124401, and the version in force took effect on 1 September 2026.

What makes it useful is not the topic list. Every course has a topic list. It is the number printed beside each section.

The thirteen sections and what each is worth

Those counts are Pearson's, not ours. The general nine add to 100 and the Texas four add to 30, which is the 130 scored questions on the paper.

Read the column rather than the rows and something jumps out. Accident and health policy types is the largest single section on the exam at 16 questions, larger than either life section, and larger than the whole of the Texas life and HMO material put together.

Turning it into a checklist

This takes twenty minutes and it replaces every study plan you were about to buy.

1. Write the thirteen sections down the left of a page and the question count beside each
2. Score yourself out of five on every section. Five means you could teach it, one means you have never heard of it
3. Subtract your score from five, and multiply what is left by the question count
4. Sort by that product, largest first. That is the order to study in, and it is not the order any course teaches in

The arithmetic is doing something specific. It ranks by questions at risk rather than by weakness alone, so a total blank on health maintenance organizations, worth 3 questions, sits below a shaky grasp of accident and health policy types, worth 16. That is the correct order and it is not the intuitive one, because a total blank feels more urgent than a wobble.

The sub-items are the real checklist

Under each numbered section the outline lists lettered items, and those are the actual scope statement. Section 5 does not just say accident and health policy types; it names the kinds of coverage examinable within it.

Use them as a coverage test on whatever you are studying from. Take a section, read its lettered items, and check that your course or your notes contain something on each. Anything the outline names and your material does not is a hole, and holes in the heavier sections are expensive.

This is also the cheapest way to audit a course before you commit to it. You are not judging quality, which is hard, you are judging coverage, which is a matter of ticking a list.

The version matters more than usual right now

The outline in force took effect on 1 September 2026. Material written against the previous one describes a paper that is no longer set, and that is a checkable claim rather than a general warning about staying current.

Check it directly. Find the outline version or effective date that a course names in its own description of scope, and compare it against the current publication. If a product does not say which outline it was built for, that is itself an answer.

What the outline will not tell you

It gives you no difficulty information. A section worth 15 questions might be fifteen easy ones, and the count says nothing about how many candidates get them right. Pearson holds that data and nobody outside the vendor sees it.

It also says nothing about time. The section counts tell you how much of the paper each area occupies, not how long its questions take, and those are different things: the 30 Texas questions are recall and should run far faster than their share of the clock, which is the trade worked through in the per-question arithmetic.

Our opinion, stated flatly: the content outline is a better study plan than most paid study plans, because it is the specification the exam is actually built from and everything else is somebody's interpretation of it. It costs nothing and takes an evening to work through properly.