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WY Life & Health study plan

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

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Insurance Regulation and Wyoming Insurance Law

  • Sequence the Wyoming producer licensing path (prelicensing education, exam, application, fingerprinting, appointment) into a 6-step timeline from memory, then verify each step against your study text.

  • Memorize and write out 20 Wyoming-specific numbers and deadlines: continuing education hours and reporting, license renewal cycle, appointment notification window, address change window, and penalty ranges.

  • Explain the Commissioner's authority by listing at least 8 powers (examinations, hearings, subpoenas, cease-and-desist, license suspension/revocation, fines, rulemaking).

  • Sort 15 scenarios into producer, insurer, or Commissioner responsibility and justify each with the rule applied.

Your checkpoint

Dated Wyoming deadlines and numbers table (renewal, CE, appointment, address change, penalties) plus a closed-book 25-question Domain 1 quiz scored at 80% or higher.

Week 2

Insurance Regulation and Wyoming Insurance Law & Life Insurance Basics

  • Classify 15 marketing scenarios into the correct unfair trade practice (rebating, twisting, misrepresentation, false advertising, commingling, boycott/coercion) and name the violation each time.

  • Describe fiduciary premium handling and recordkeeping obligations in 5 bullet points you can recite without notes.

  • Define insurable interest and state the exact moment it must exist for a life policy, then apply it to 8 relationship scenarios.

  • Differentiate the standard underwriting risk classifications and explain how each shifts premium and policy availability.

Your checkpoint

30-question mixed Domain 1-2 quiz scored at 80% or higher, with an error log of at least 5 entries naming the rule you missed.

Week 3

Life Insurance Basics

  • Build a comparison grid for term, whole life, universal life, variable life, and endowment across premium pattern, cash value, death benefit, and duration.

  • Work 5 premium calculations using the three pricing factors (mortality, interest, expense) and label which factor changed in each variation.

  • Identify dividend options and nonforfeiture-style elections for 12 policy illustrations, choosing the option that best fits a stated client goal.

  • Explain beneficiary designations (primary/contingent, revocable/irrevocable, per stirpes vs per capita) and resolve 10 payout distribution scenarios.

Your checkpoint

One-page policy-type comparison grid completed from memory, plus a 20-question Domain 2 quiz scored at 85% or higher.

Week 4

Life Insurance Policies, Provisions, Options, and Riders

  • Recite the core life policy provisions (entire contract, incontestability, grace period, reinstatement, misstatement of age, suicide clause, free look) with the correct time periods attached to each.

  • Match 12 nonforfeiture, dividend, and settlement options to their definitions and to a client situation that would trigger each.

  • Select the correct rider (waiver of premium, disability income, accidental death, guaranteed insurability, term rider, payor benefit, long-term care) for 15 client scenarios.

  • Explain policy loans, automatic premium loan, and surrender charges, and show the effect of each on death benefit and cash value in 3 worked examples.

Your checkpoint

Cumulative 60-question timed exam covering Domains 1-3 scored at 75% or higher, with a written remediation list of your three weakest subareas.

Week 5

Life Insurance Policies, Provisions, Options, and Riders & Health Insurance Basics and Policy Provisions

  • Close out Domain 3 by explaining ownership, assignment (absolute vs collateral), taxation of death proceeds, and taxation of cash value withdrawals in your own words.

  • List the mandatory uniform health policy provisions and state in one sentence what each protects the policyholder against.

  • Distinguish cancellable, optionally renewable, conditionally renewable, guaranteed renewable, and noncancellable contracts by renewal rights and premium guarantees.

  • Contrast the optional health provisions (change of occupation, misstatement of age, illegal occupation, other insurance) with the mandatory set.

Your checkpoint

30-question quiz weighting Domain 3 taxation/assignment and Domain 4 provisions, scored at 80% or higher.

Week 6

Health Insurance Basics and Policy Provisions

  • Compute total out-of-pocket cost across 6 scenarios combining deductible, coinsurance, copay, and out-of-pocket maximum, showing your arithmetic.

  • Explain coordination of benefits and duplicate coverage rules, then resolve 5 dual-coverage claim scenarios.

  • Sequence the health claim process (notice of claim, claim forms, proof of loss, time limits for insurer payment) with the deadlines attached.

  • Diagnose 10 claim denials by naming the provision or rule the insurer relied on.

Your checkpoint

Solved cost-share worksheet with all 6 scenarios computed and a 25-question Domain 4 quiz scored at 85% or higher.

Week 7

Health Insurance Coverages: Disability, Medical, Group, and Government Programs

  • Differentiate own-occupation vs any-occupation disability definitions and explain how elimination period, benefit period, and residual/recurrent provisions change the payout.

  • Compare HMO, PPO, POS, indemnity, and HDHP/HSA structures on network rules, referrals, premiums, and cost sharing in a single table.

  • Explain group health mechanics: eligibility, conversion rights, COBRA continuation, and coordination with individual coverage.

  • Summarize Medicare Parts A-D, Medicaid, Wyoming-specific assistance programs, and workers' compensation basics in an outline you can redraw from memory.

Your checkpoint

One-page coverage comparison table across the five medical plan structures, plus a 30-question Domain 5 quiz scored at 85% or higher.

Week 8

Insurance Regulation and Wyoming Insurance Law & Life Insurance Basics & Life Insurance Policies, Provisions, Options, and Riders & Health Insurance Basics and Policy Provisions & Health Insurance Coverages: Disability, Medical, Group, and Government Programs

  • Complete three timed 100-question mixed practice exams under test conditions and log every miss by domain and subarea.

  • Re-teach your three weakest subareas from the error log using blank-page recall before checking notes.

  • Recite every Wyoming-specific number (CE hours, renewal, appointment window, free look, replacement notice, penalties) from memory in under five minutes.

  • Consolidate all formulas, mandated time periods, and coverage limits onto a single final review sheet.

Your checkpoint

Two full-length timed practice exams scored at 80% or higher and a completed one-page final numbers and formulas sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Wyoming regulatory content fully covered: deadlines table complete and Domain 1-2 quiz at 80% or higher.

Week 4: Cumulative Domains 1-3 exam at 75% or higher; weakest three subareas identified in writing.

Week 6: Domains 1-4 fully covered with each domain quiz at 80% or higher and the cost-share worksheet solved.

Week 7: All five domains covered at least once; Domain 5 quiz at 85% or higher and the coverage comparison table finished.

Week 8: Two timed full-length practice exams at 80% or higher, and every missed number or provision re-drilled to recall.