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HI Life & Health study plan

HI Life & Health · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Hawaii Insurance Laws, Rules and Regulations & General Insurance Concepts

  • Map every Hawaii licensing requirement (resident and nonresident licensing, prelicensing hours, appointment, renewal, continuing education) into a one-page comparison chart

  • Explain Hawaii-specific fiduciary duties, premium trust accounts, and commingling rules in your own words without notes

  • Define the core risk-handling techniques and match each to a life or health example

  • Differentiate stock versus mutual insurers, admitted versus surplus lines, and agent versus broker authority

  • Identify prohibited practices and unfair trade acts under Hawaii insurance law and give one example of each

Your checkpoint

Score 80% or higher on a 25-question quiz covering Domains 1 and 2, closed-book

Week 2

Life Insurance Basics & Life Insurance Policies

  • Calculate human life value and needs-based coverage amounts for three sample families

  • Distinguish term, whole, universal, and variable life by premium structure, cash value mechanics, and death benefit behavior

  • Diagram the underwriting flow from application Part I and II through policy issue and delivery

  • Apply the elements of a valid contract (offer, acceptance, consideration, legal purpose, insurable interest) to a life policy

  • Explain replacement, conditional receipt, and statement of good health rules

Your checkpoint

Complete a four-column policy comparison table (term, whole, universal, variable) plus a 15-question quiz at 80% or higher

Week 3

Life Insurance Policy Provisions, Options and Riders

  • Match each major life policy provision (entire contract, grace period, reinstatement, incontestability, misstatement of age, suicide clause) to its exact time limit or consequence

  • Compare nonforfeiture options and dividend options, and compute cash surrender values for two sample policies

  • Select the correct rider (waiver of premium, disability income, accidental death, guaranteed insurability, long-term care, term) for six client scenarios

  • Explain the tax treatment of policy loans, dividends, and accelerated death benefits

Your checkpoint

Build a 20-card provision-to-time-limit flashcard deck and pass a 30-question Domain 5 quiz at 85% or higher

Week 4

Life Insurance Policy Provisions, Options and Riders & Annuities

  • Trace settlement and payout options (life only, life with period certain, joint and survivor) and rank them by income size

  • Distinguish fixed, indexed, and variable annuities by accumulation and payout mechanics

  • Apply the exclusion ratio and a surrender charge schedule to a sample annuity

  • Explain annuity taxation rules, including exclusion ratio treatment and the early withdrawal penalty

  • Review and re-drill every missed item from Domains 1 through 5

Your checkpoint

Score 78% or higher on a 60-question cumulative exam covering Domains 1 through 6

Week 5

Health Insurance Basics

  • Classify health plans (indemnity, HMO, PPO, POS, HDHP with HSA) by network rules and cost sharing

  • Compute benefits payable under deductible, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket maximum scenarios

  • Compare individual versus group health underwriting and outline COBRA and HIPAA continuation and portability rules

  • Differentiate own-occupation from any-occupation disability definitions and their benefit implications

Your checkpoint

Work 10 health benefit calculations with zero arithmetic errors and score 80% or higher on a 25-question Domain 7 quiz

Week 6

Health Insurance Policy Provisions

  • Identify mandatory and optional health policy provisions and state the purpose of each

  • Explain coordination of benefits, subrogation, and claim filing and payment timeframes

  • Distinguish Medicare Parts A through D from Medicaid, and outline Hawaii's prepaid health care and QUEST program basics

  • Apply renewability clauses (noncancellable, guaranteed renewable, conditionally renewable, optionally renewable) to sample policies

Your checkpoint

Build a one-page renewability and time-limit matrix and score 85% or higher on a 30-question Domain 8 quiz

Week 7

Hawaii Insurance Laws, Rules and Regulations & Life Insurance Policy Provisions, Options and Riders & Health Insurance Policy Provisions

  • Re-drill every missed item from Weeks 1 through 6 and log the underlying rule for each error

  • Re-take all Hawaii-specific practice items until scoring 90% or higher

  • Consolidate every numeric limit (free look, grace periods, reinstatement, incontestability, claim deadlines) into a single reference sheet

  • Explain the five most frequently missed concepts aloud without notes

Your checkpoint

Produce a written error log with 100% of missed items resolved to a source rule, plus score 85% or higher on a 100-question mixed exam

Week 8

Hawaii Insurance Laws, Rules and Regulations & General Insurance Concepts & Life Insurance Basics & Life Insurance Policies & Life Insurance Policy Provisions, Options and Riders & Annuities & Health Insurance Basics & Health Insurance Policy Provisions

  • Simulate full-length timed exams under test-day conditions with no interruptions

  • Review the top 20 missed concepts until each is explained aloud from memory

  • Finalize a one-page cheat sheet of Hawaii deadlines and numeric limits

  • Verify all eight domains have been practiced at least twice since Week 4

Your checkpoint

Complete two full-length timed practice exams scoring 85% or higher, with every missed item reviewed and re-quizzed before the real exam

Milestones

Week 2: Pass a 30-question quiz on Hawaii law and general insurance concepts at 80% or higher before starting life policy content

Week 4: Score 78% or higher on a 60-question cumulative exam covering Domains 1 through 6

Week 6: Score 80% or higher on a 100-question cumulative exam covering all eight domains

Week 8: Achieve 85% or higher on two consecutive full-length timed practice exams