LLQP Life study materials
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LLQP Life study plan

LLQP Life · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Life Insurance

  • Define risk pooling, insurable interest, and the three main life insurance product families, and match each family to a stated client need.

  • Compare term, whole life, and universal life on cost structure, cash value accumulation, and duration of coverage in a written table.

  • Explain how underwriting classifications (age, sex, health, smoking status, avocation) shift a premium rating.

  • Complete a closed-book 40-question quiz on life insurance fundamentals and log every miss with the reason.

Your checkpoint

One-page term vs whole life vs universal life comparison table, plus a dated quiz log showing your 40-question score.

Week 2

Life Insurance

  • Apply incontestability, grace period, reinstatement, and misstatement-of-age provisions to short written fact patterns.

  • Distinguish revocable from irrevocable beneficiary designations and state how each limits the policyowner's rights.

  • Explain the tax treatment of the death benefit, cash surrender, policy loans, and transfers of ownership.

  • Work three policy scenarios to identify the correct beneficiary payout and any taxable amount.

  • Score at least 75% on a 50-question domain 1 quiz.

Your checkpoint

Three worked policy scenarios with your computed payouts and tax treatment, plus the scored 50-question quiz.

Week 3

Accident and Sickness Insurance

  • Distinguish disability income, critical illness, long-term care, and accidental death and dismemberment coverages by what each pays and when.

  • Contrast own-occupation with any-occupation definitions of disability and explain how the choice changes claim outcomes.

  • Identify the standard exclusions, limitations, and pre-existing condition clauses in accident and sickness contracts.

  • Calculate a monthly disability benefit given the monthly benefit amount, elimination period, benefit period, and an income offset.

  • Build a glossary of 20 accident and sickness terms written in your own words.

Your checkpoint

A benefit-calculation worksheet with at least three solved scenarios and a 20-term personal glossary.

Week 4

Life Insurance & Accident and Sickness Insurance

  • Explain how individual disability coverage coordinates with group coverage and government benefits such as CPP disability and workers' compensation.

  • Outline the accident and sickness underwriting and claims process from application through benefit payment.

  • Re-teach yourself your five weakest topics from weeks 1 to 3 using only your own notes.

  • Score at least 75% on a timed 60-question mixed quiz covering domains 1 and 2.

Your checkpoint

Timed 60-question quiz result plus an error log that tags every missed question to a specific topic.

Week 5

Segregated Funds and Annuities

  • Explain segregated fund maturity and death guarantees, including reset options, and contrast them with mutual fund features.

  • Classify annuity types (term certain, life, joint and last survivor, indexed, variable) and match each to a client objective.

  • Distinguish the accumulation phase from the payout phase and describe the available payout options.

  • Explain how registered versus non-registered annuities are taxed and where seg funds sit in registered plans.

  • Draft two suitability rationales for seg funds versus annuities using stated client facts.

Your checkpoint

A segregated fund versus mutual fund comparison chart and an annuity selection decision tree with two written rationales.

Week 6

Segregated Funds and Annuities & Ethics and Professional Practice

  • Compute the effect of a market decline on a segregated fund death benefit guarantee in two worked examples.

  • Evaluate when annuitization beats holding a payout vehicle such as a RRIF, and justify the recommendation in writing.

  • Explain seg fund contract provisions covering beneficiary designation, probate, and creditor protection.

  • Identify the regulatory bodies that license and oversee life insurance agents in Canada and describe the licensing framework.

  • Score at least 75% on a 40-question domain 3 quiz.

Your checkpoint

Two solved guarantee-calculation examples and a scored 40-question domain 3 quiz.

Week 7

Ethics and Professional Practice

  • Apply know-your-client, know-your-product, and suitability standards to four written conduct scenarios.

  • Identify conflicts of interest and the disclosure steps required before and after a transaction.

  • Describe complaint handling, privacy obligations, and anti-money-laundering and terrorist-financing reporting duties.

  • Distinguish market conduct rules from tax rules when advising on a transaction.

  • Score at least 80% on a 30-question ethics and professional practice quiz.

Your checkpoint

Scored 30-question ethics quiz plus a one-page red-flags checklist for spotting conduct breaches.

Week 8

Life Insurance & Accident and Sickness Insurance & Segregated Funds and Annuities & Ethics and Professional Practice

  • Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score at least 75% on each.

  • Categorize every missed mock question by domain and re-study the two domains with the highest miss rate.

  • Recite from memory 25 core definitions spanning all four domains without notes.

  • Build a single-page formula and rules sheet from recall only.

  • Confirm final logistics: exam format, permitted materials, and timing strategy.

Your checkpoint

Two recorded mock exam scores with a per-domain remediation sheet and a one-page recall-built formula sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 75% on the 50-question domain 1 quiz and show an error log with every miss tagged to a topic.

Week 4: Score at least 75% on the timed 60-question mixed quiz for domains 1 and 2, with no domain below 70%.

Week 6: All four domains have been studied at least once, and the domain 3 quiz score is at least 75%.

Week 8: Two full-length mock exams each scored at least 75%, and no single domain falls below 70% on the second mock.