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SLII Agent Exam study plan

SLII Agent Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Insurance Fundamentals and Principles

  • Define risk, insurable interest, indemnity, utmost good faith, contribution, subrogation and proximate cause, and write a one-line example of each from Sri Lankan life or non-life practice.

  • Distinguish life from general (non-life) insurance by contract duration, indemnity versus benefit, and underwriting method, and tabulate at least six differences.

  • Explain the purpose of reinsurance and co-insurance and identify who bears the risk in each arrangement.

  • Solve five numerical problems on premium calculation and claim settlement using the indemnity principle.

Your checkpoint

A one-page glossary of at least 20 fundamentals terms with a worked numerical example for premium and claim settlement.

Week 2

Life Insurance Practice

  • Compare term, whole life, endowment, money-back and unit-linked plans on premium, cover, savings element and maturity benefit, and match each to three suitable customer profiles.

  • Explain the roles of the proposal form, medical examination, policy document, free-look period, grace period, surrender value and policy loan in the life cycle of a policy.

  • Calculate a simplified premium using mortality, interest and expense assumptions, and show how each factor changes the premium.

  • Describe nomination, assignment, beneficiaries and death claim documentation requirements.

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of five life product types plus a completed death-claim checklist of at least eight documents.

Week 3

Life Insurance Practice & Insurance Fundamentals and Principles

  • Explain underwriting of life risks including age, health, occupation, habits and sum assured limits, and state the effect of non-disclosure on a claim.

  • Distinguish exclusions, riders, waiting periods and suicide clauses and cite one example of each.

  • Revisit fundamentals topics missed in week 1 and correct at least ten errors in a self-made quiz.

  • Compute surrender value and paid-up value for an endowment policy using a given table of values.

Your checkpoint

A 20-question self-test on life insurance practice, scored and corrected, with a written note on each wrong answer.

Week 4

General (Non-Life) Insurance Practice

  • Classify fire, marine, motor, engineering, liability, health and miscellaneous classes and list the main perils covered in each.

  • Explain sum insured, average clause, excess, deductible, franchise and no-claim bonus, and show how an under-insured fire claim is reduced.

  • Outline the motor third-party liability requirement and the claim process for own-damage and third-party claims.

  • Describe marine cargo and hull cover basics, including Institute Cargo Clauses A, B and C levels of cover.

Your checkpoint

A one-page claim-settlement worksheet applying the average clause to at least three under-insurance scenarios.

Week 5

General (Non-Life) Insurance Practice & Insurance Fundamentals and Principles

  • Explain the duties of the insured and insurer before and after a loss, including notification, proof of loss and salvage.

  • Distinguish actual total loss, constructive total loss and particular and general average in marine insurance.

  • Identify common fraud indicators in motor and fire claims and state the correct escalation action.

  • Re-test fundamentals and general insurance topics and raise the practice score to at least 70 percent.

Your checkpoint

A scored 30-question mixed test on domains 1 and 3 with a written correction log.

Week 6

Insurance Law, Regulation and Ethics

  • Outline the regulatory framework for insurers, brokers and agents, including registration, licensing and supervision by the insurance regulator.

  • Explain the duties of an agent toward the insurer and the client, including disclosure, confidentiality, anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer obligations.

  • Distinguish misrepresentation, non-disclosure, fraud and rebating, and state the consequence of each for the agent and the policy.

  • Apply a five-step ethical decision model to three short case scenarios and justify each recommended action.

Your checkpoint

Three written case analyses of at least 150 words each, each ending with a justified course of action and the rule relied on.

Week 7

Sales, Marketing and Customer Service & Insurance Law, Regulation and Ethics

  • Build a needs-analysis script that gathers age, dependants, income, liabilities and existing cover, and compute a simple human-life-value requirement.

  • Draft responses to five common objections on price, trust, returns and claim delays, each under 80 words.

  • Explain the sales process from prospecting to policy delivery and servicing, and identify the compliance checkpoint at each stage.

  • Describe complaint handling and grievance-redress procedures and the record-keeping expected of an agent.

Your checkpoint

A complete sales interview script with needs analysis, objection handling and a documented compliance checklist.

Week 8

Insurance Fundamentals and Principles & Life Insurance Practice & General (Non-Life) Insurance Practice & Insurance Law, Regulation and Ethics & Sales, Marketing and Customer Service

  • Take two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and record the score for each domain.

  • Rank domains by weakness and re-study the two lowest-scoring areas using condensed notes.

  • Memorize key definitions, limits and time periods using a one-page revision sheet.

  • Simulate three ethical and claims scenarios aloud to confirm recall under time pressure.

Your checkpoint

Two completed mock exams with scores of at least 75 percent overall and a one-page final revision sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 65 percent on a 20-question test on domains 1 and 2, and explain the indemnity principle and five life product types without notes.

Week 4: Score at least 65 percent on a 25-question test on domain 3, and correctly settle three under-insurance claims using the average clause.

Week 6: Score at least 70 percent on a 30-question test on domains 1, 3 and 4, and produce three ethical case analyses that cite the applicable rule.

Week 8: Score at least 75 percent overall on two full timed mocks, with no domain below 60 percent.