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LA Life & Health study plan

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

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Life Policy Provisions, Options, Riders, and Beneficiaries

  • Name every major life policy provision (entire contract, incontestability, grace period, reinstatement, misstatement of age, misstatement of sex, suicide, free look, payment of claims) and state its time limit from memory

  • Distinguish nonforfeiture options, dividend options, and settlement options, writing one worked example scenario for each

  • Differentiate irrevocable vs. revocable and primary vs. contingent beneficiary designations, and explain per stirpes, per capita, and spendthrift clauses

  • Apply the transfer-for-value rule, facility-of-payment provision, and common disaster clause to four short fact patterns

Your checkpoint

Closed-book 30-question Domain 5 quiz scored at 80% or higher, plus a corrected error log listing every missed item with the reason for the miss

Week 2

Life Insurance Policies & Life Insurance Basics

  • Compare term, whole life, universal life, variable life, and indexed universal life on premium structure, cash value behavior, and death benefit design

  • Compute the effect of a partial withdrawal and of a policy loan on cash value and death benefit in a universal life illustration

  • Sequence the underwriting process from application through policy delivery, including the agent's report, paramedical exam, and attending physician statement

  • Explain the relationship among premium mode, total annual outlay, and the grace period

  • Identify the parties to a life insurance contract and the elements that make an application a binding contract

Your checkpoint

A one-page comparison table of the five life policy types built from memory, plus 80% or better on a 40-question mixed Domain 3/4 quiz

Week 3

Insurance Regulation (Louisiana laws, rules, and licensing) & General Insurance Concepts

  • Outline Louisiana producer licensing: prelicensing education, exam, appointment by an insurer, license term, renewal, and continuing education reporting

  • Describe Louisiana rules on rebating, twisting, misrepresentation, commingling of premiums, fiduciary duty, and the penalties attached to each

  • Distinguish stock vs. mutual insurers, admitted vs. nonadmitted insurers, and explain the roles of the insurance department and the guaranty association

  • Define risk retention, risk transfer, adverse selection, coinsurance, and deductible, and match each to a short scenario

Your checkpoint

A Louisiana regulation cheat sheet (licensing, appointment, CE, prohibited acts, penalties) written from memory, then verified and corrected against the study notes

Week 4

Health Insurance Coverage (disability income, medical expense, group, Medicare, long-term care)

  • Differentiate own-occupation, any-occupation, and split-definition disability, and calculate the benefit payable given an elimination period and benefit period

  • Compare HMO, PPO, POS, and indemnity plans on network rules, referral requirements, and cost sharing

  • Explain Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D, the initial and general enrollment periods, and the Medigap open enrollment right

  • Identify the triggers, elimination period, benefit duration, and inflation protection features of qualified long-term care insurance

  • Apply group health coordination-of-benefits, continuation, and conversion rules to three short scenarios

Your checkpoint

50-question Domain 8 practice set scored at 80% or higher, covering disability income, medical expense, group health, Medicare, and long-term care

Week 5

Health Insurance Basics and Policy Provisions

  • Map each required uniform health policy provision (entire contract, time limit on certain defenses, grace period, reinstatement, claim procedures, physical exam, legal actions, change of occupation) and state its time frame

  • Explain the purpose of the free look, the incontestability clause, the insurance-with-other-insurers clause, and the relation-of-earnings clause in a health contract

  • Calculate benefits payable in scenarios involving a deductible, coinsurance percentage, and an out-of-pocket maximum

  • Distinguish cancellable, optionally renewable, conditionally renewable, guaranteed renewable, and noncancellable health policies

Your checkpoint

A completed table of required health policy provisions with time limits, plus 85% or better on a 35-question Domain 7 quiz

Week 6

Annuities

  • Compare fixed, indexed, and variable annuities on interest crediting, market risk borne by the owner, and separate account treatment

  • Explain the accumulation phase, the annuitization phase, and the straight life, life with period certain, joint and survivor, and systematic withdrawal payout options

  • Compute the exclusion ratio and identify which portion of an annuity payment is taxable, including the treatment of early withdrawals and loans

  • Describe surrender charge schedules, market value adjustments, free withdrawal amounts, and annuity suitability and senior protection obligations

Your checkpoint

A fully worked exclusion-ratio example with the taxable and nontaxable portions labeled, plus an 85% or better score on a 30-question Domain 6 quiz

Week 7

Insurance Regulation (Louisiana laws, rules, and licensing) & General Insurance Concepts & Annuities

  • Re-answer every previously missed question from weeks 1 through 6 and group the errors by domain to expose the two weakest areas

  • Redo Louisiana licensing, appointment, CE, and prohibited-practice material without notes and score 100% on a 20-question regulation drill

  • Retest general insurance concepts and annuities with a 30-question set and reach 85% on each

  • Rewrite each missed concept as a single sentence in your own words and file it in the error log

Your checkpoint

An updated error log in which every previously missed item is re-answered correctly, plus a prioritized list of the three weakest remaining topics

Week 8

Insurance Regulation (Louisiana laws, rules, and licensing) & General Insurance Concepts & Life Insurance Basics & Life Insurance Policies & Life Policy Provisions, Options, Riders, and Beneficiaries & Annuities & Health Insurance Basics and Policy Provisions & Health Insurance Coverage (disability income, medical expense, group, Medicare, long-term care)

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams under test conditions with no notes and the clock running

  • Review every missed question from both exams and confirm the underlying rule before moving on

  • Drill Louisiana regulation and life provisions and beneficiary questions until each area holds at 90% or better

  • Recite from memory the key numeric facts: grace periods, free look, reinstatement, incontestability, and health and annuity time limits

Your checkpoint

Two full-length practice exams completed at 80% or higher overall, with no single domain below 70%

Milestones

Week 2: Two of eight domains are fully studied and the 40-question mixed Domain 3/4 quiz is at 80% or higher

Week 4: Half the domains are complete; the 50-question Domain 8 set is at 80% or higher and a 50-question mixed exam over Domains 3, 4, and 5 is at 75% or higher

Week 6: All eight domains have been studied at least once, and every domain-level quiz is at 80% or better

Week 8: Two full-length timed exams are complete at 80% or higher overall with no domain below 70%