Life and Health
I am currently studying to take the state health and life insurance exam for the state insurance license. I must be completely finished with the studying and the pre-exams by Tuesday. I am currently about 19% of the way through the study materials that are on an online course which the recruiting manager signed me up for. It does show the percentage of completion, which is why I know that I passed 18% a while ago.
You're required to get higher than 70% correct on the pre-exams to pass, and 85% correct or higher to qualify for the quarantee that if I fail the state exam, the online training company will pay the cost to retake the state test.
On the first pre-exam which was 44 questions I got an 84%. On the second, with 14 questions, I first got 78%, and when I retook it I got a 92%. I will definately retake the first one to get higher than 85%, as well. Right now on the 3rd pre-exam, I'm having trouble already. I'm either going to finish the exam and then retake it, or stop now (which I already did, to take a break) and restudy the materials before either resuming or starting over.
I'll say this: Health insurance contains a lot of information to learn and remember, but life insurance is by far, more complex and difficult being that several types are similar to, and/or involve, securities and investements. There are certain forms of life insurance that require the agent to hold a series 6 or series 7 securities license just like a stock broker. I won't be selling those, but for the insurance license, apparently I still have to know and understand them.
I am both anxious and nervous, perhaps just a little bit nervous, that I am embarking on a course I've never been on nor expected to be. And this is only the beginning. I was not hired to be an insurance agent per se; no, though I will be selling insurance for several months to learn the business, the reason I was hired was to manage an insurance office under the parent company, based on my management and sales past. The company is expanding and opening new offices across the state and the country, and so people are being hired with management and motivational and sales-reaching experience, to run those offices. Apparently, I impressed the heck out of this recruiting-manager, that he believes I can learn this and move up into the place that he wants me to be.
More to come later. I must eat, and then return to my studies.
You're required to get higher than 70% correct on the pre-exams to pass, and 85% correct or higher to qualify for the quarantee that if I fail the state exam, the online training company will pay the cost to retake the state test.
On the first pre-exam which was 44 questions I got an 84%. On the second, with 14 questions, I first got 78%, and when I retook it I got a 92%. I will definately retake the first one to get higher than 85%, as well. Right now on the 3rd pre-exam, I'm having trouble already. I'm either going to finish the exam and then retake it, or stop now (which I already did, to take a break) and restudy the materials before either resuming or starting over.
I'll say this: Health insurance contains a lot of information to learn and remember, but life insurance is by far, more complex and difficult being that several types are similar to, and/or involve, securities and investements. There are certain forms of life insurance that require the agent to hold a series 6 or series 7 securities license just like a stock broker. I won't be selling those, but for the insurance license, apparently I still have to know and understand them.
I am both anxious and nervous, perhaps just a little bit nervous, that I am embarking on a course I've never been on nor expected to be. And this is only the beginning. I was not hired to be an insurance agent per se; no, though I will be selling insurance for several months to learn the business, the reason I was hired was to manage an insurance office under the parent company, based on my management and sales past. The company is expanding and opening new offices across the state and the country, and so people are being hired with management and motivational and sales-reaching experience, to run those offices. Apparently, I impressed the heck out of this recruiting-manager, that he believes I can learn this and move up into the place that he wants me to be.
More to come later. I must eat, and then return to my studies.