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Iran Insurance Agent Exam study plan

Iran Insurance Agent Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Principles and Fundamentals of Insurance (اصول و مبانی بیمه)

  • Define risk, uncertainty, and insurable interest in your own words and classify ten everyday risks as pure or speculative.

  • Distinguish the three main branches of Iranian insurance practice (life, property, liability) and state which regulator oversees each.

  • Explain the mechanism of risk pooling and premium calculation using one worked numeric example with a loss frequency and severity assumption.

  • List the core principles (indemnity, subrogation, utmost good faith, proximate cause, contribution) and match each to a short scenario.

Your checkpoint

A one-page Persian-language glossary of at least 20 core principles terms with a one-line definition and a real-life example for each.

Week 2

Principles and Fundamentals of Insurance (اصول و مبانی بیمه) & Insurance Law and Regulation in Iran (حقوق و قوانین بیمه)

  • Map the roles of the regulator, the insurer, the agent, and the policyholder across the insurance contract lifecycle.

  • Identify which principles are legally binding versus customary in the Iranian market and justify your classification.

  • Explain how a contract is formed (offer, acceptance, consideration, insurable interest) using a sample life policy.

  • Distinguish void, voidable, and unenforceable contracts and apply each label to two hypothetical policy situations.

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of at least 8 contract-formation concepts against their practical consequence for an agent selling a policy.

Week 3

Insurance Law and Regulation in Iran (حقوق و قوانین بیمه)

  • Summarize the supervisory framework governing insurers and agents and name the main statutory instruments you must know.

  • Describe the licensing pathway for an insurance agency, including renewal and continuing-education expectations.

  • Explain the agent's duties of disclosure, record-keeping, and segregation of client premiums.

  • Outline the complaint and dispute-resolution route available to a policyholder.

Your checkpoint

A written compliance checklist of at least 12 items an agency must satisfy to stay in good standing, each with a one-line rationale.

Week 4

Life and Personal Insurance (بیمه‌های زندگی و اشخاص)

  • Distinguish life, endowment, term, and annuity products and state the core benefit structure of each.

  • Explain how underwriting factors (age, health, occupation, sum insured) affect acceptance and premium in life insurance.

  • Describe the treatment of suicide, misrepresentation, and non-payment of premium within the contestability period.

  • Compare personal accident and health cover to life cover on benefit trigger and claim evidence.

Your checkpoint

A side-by-side product matrix of 5 personal-insurance products scored on benefit trigger, term, premium drivers, and typical exclusions.

Week 5

Property and Fire Insurance (بیمه‌های اموال و آتش‌سوزی)

  • Explain the fire peril, allied perils, and the standard exclusions in a property fire policy.

  • Distinguish reinstatement value, indemnity value, and agreed value and calculate a claim payout under each for one worked example.

  • Apply the average (underinsurance) clause and demonstrate its effect on a partial-loss settlement.

  • Describe the underwriting information required for commercial property, including occupancy and fire-protection features.

  • Explain business interruption cover and how the indemnity period is set.

Your checkpoint

A worked claim calculation file showing three settlement outcomes for the same loss under indemnity value, reinstatement value, and an underinsured policy.

Week 6

Third-Party Liability and Motor Insurance (بیمه شخص ثالث و مسئولیت)

  • Explain compulsory third-party motor liability and the scope of bodily-injury cover it provides.

  • Distinguish third-party liability from own-damage cover and state what each pays for.

  • Describe how liability limits, deductibles, and no-claim discounts interact in a motor premium.

  • Apply the concept of negligence and proximate cause to two collision scenarios and decide which policy responds.

  • Outline the role of the motor third-party liability fund where the at-fault driver is uninsured or unidentified.

Your checkpoint

A decision flowchart for a motor claim covering at least 6 branch points, from incident report through liability determination to settlement.

Week 7

Sales, Marketing, and Ethics of Insurance Agency (فروش و اخلاق حرفه‌ای نمایندگی) & Claims Handling and Reinsurance Basics (خسارت و اتکایی)

  • Build a needs-analysis script that matches a client profile to a suitable product and documents the recommendation.

  • Draft responses to three common objections (price, distrust, procrastination) that stay within ethical selling limits.

  • List the agent conduct rules on disclosure of commission, comparison claims, and client-data handling.

  • Describe the claim notification, documentation, survey, and settlement sequence for a property claim.

  • Explain the purpose of reinsurance and distinguish proportional (quota share, surplus) from non-proportional (excess of loss) treaties.

Your checkpoint

A recorded or written role-play of a 10-minute needs-analysis conversation plus a one-page claim-handling checklist.

Week 8

Principles and Fundamentals of Insurance (اصول و مبانی بیمه) & Insurance Law and Regulation in Iran (حقوق و قوانین بیمه) & Life and Personal Insurance (بیمه‌های زندگی و اشخاص) & Property and Fire Insurance (بیمه‌های اموال و آتش‌سوزی) & Third-Party Liability and Motor Insurance (بیمه شخص ثالث و مسئولیت) & Sales, Marketing, and Ethics of Insurance Agency (فروش و اخلاق حرفه‌ای نمایندگی) & Claims Handling and Reinsurance Basics (خسارت و اتکایی)

  • Complete a full timed mock exam and score each of the seven domains separately.

  • Re-teach your two weakest domains by writing a one-page summary from memory, then checking it against your notes.

  • Re-drill all numeric question types: average clause, indemnity value, premium calculation, and liability limits.

  • Finalize a one-page pre-exam review sheet of formulas, key definitions, and regulatory references.

Your checkpoint

A scored mock-exam report with a domain-by-domain error log and a corrected answer for every missed question.

Milestones

Week 2: You can explain all core principles and contract-formation rules without notes and score at least 70% on a 20-question principles quiz.

Week 4: You can state the agent licensing and conduct obligations from memory and pass a 15-question law and regulation quiz at 75% or better.

Week 6: You correctly settle three practice property and motor claims, including one underinsurance calculation, with no arithmetic errors.

Week 8: You score at least 75% overall on the timed mock exam with no single domain below 60%.