Wrapping up

Congratulations, you’ve made it through all of the Health Insurance Achievable material!

We won’t discuss any testable content in this last chapter, but we will review how to measure your readiness, prepare effectively in the final stretch, and use practice exams and review techniques to maximize your chances of passing.

When am I ready for the exam?

There’s no perfect answer to this question, but Achievable’s exam readiness score is your best gauge. At the top of your homepage, our system will assign you a 0-100% score reflecting the likelihood of passing. The closer your score is to 100%, the more likely you’ll succeed on test day.

Many factors are assessed to determine your score, including program completion (e.g., reading chapters) and practice quiz scores. If you’ve used the system as intended, you’ve probably taken hundreds or thousands of practice questions. Completing practice quizzes and assigned reviews is necessary to build the required knowledge to pass the exam.

One of the most significant factors contributing to your readiness score is practice exam performance, which includes scores and the number of attempts. Practice exams test your ability to “put the big picture together” by offering questions from all Achievable chapters in a format and structure similar to the actual test. The best way to improve your readiness score is to take more practice exams and attain higher scores.

Before taking a practice exam, put your notes aside. Using resources (e.g., the Achievable reading material, Google) will artificially inflate your score. You will not have access to any resources during the actual exam, other than note-taking materials provided by the testing center.

After every practice exam, be sure to perform a thorough review of each question and answer. Confirm you understand why you’re getting questions right or wrong. Also, think beyond the question. One of the biggest and most common pitfalls to avoid is studying questions instead of content. While our questions are written to emulate the actual exam questions, no one knows what questions they’ll encounter on the exam. Insurance exam providers guard their question bank closely, and their test writers create uniquely worded questions. If you’re memorizing answers to our questions without understanding “the why,” you’re setting yourself up for failure.

The best way to do this is by asking yourself this:

“If I were given another question, with a completely different scenario and wording, am I confident I would know the answer?”

If the answer is yes, keep moving forward. If the answer is no, review the topic in the reading materials.

Dump sheet

Many test takers utilize “dump sheets” as study supplements and guides for “legal cheat sheets” on the exam. Dump sheets typically include visual guides and summarized notes of important test topics. As stated in its name, one could memorize these test topics, then perform a “data dump” onto their notepad at the beginning of their exam. These are allowed in the test center as long as they are created after the test has started (and not during the initial tutorial). While they aren’t necessary to succeed, some test takers find dump sheets helpful.

You can certainly create your own, but here is Achievable’s Health Insurance Exam dump sheet:

Download: Health Insurance Exam Dump Sheet - Concepts, contracts, and basics

Final thoughts

Insurance exams can be anxiety-inducing, but you CAN do it! Set yourself up for success by using the Achievable system as intended and following the best practices discussed in this section in your last days or weeks before the exam.

Guess who’s well on their way to passing the Health Insurance exam?

It’s a big accomplishment to have made it this far, but you’re not at the end of your journey yet.

Thanks again for choosing Achievable for the Health Insurance Exam.