The Health Insurance Paper is a very tough paper to score and the candidates willing to become an associateship must need to clear this subject. The paper mainly plays around the different policies that comes under health regarding issues and also includes the study of various kind of plans associated with it.

Qualification required for the subject:

The eligibility criterion which is fixed for all the candidates to sit in the Associateship examination is, one who has successfully cleared the Licentiate exams.

Scores and negative marking:

As the Associateship Examination-Health Insurance Papers is of descriptive format so the questions hold different markings and there is no negative scores allotted to any wrong answers with any question.

Mode of exam:

The Associateship Examination is basically a pen paper based examination. One can bring at the examination time a ball pen, HB pencil in order to write the answers. It is an offline mode exam.

Format of exam:

The Associateship Examination-Health Insurance Papers is basically a theoretical based paper and deals with the long and descriptive type questions.

Paper pattern:

The paper patter followed by the Health Insurance Papers is easy to understand. It includes ten questions and candidates are only permitted to attempt only eight questions. Question no. 10 holds a total of 16 marks but it is not mandatory to answer it. Apart from the last question, each question is associated with 12 marks.

Markings:

The Associateship Examination-Health Insurance Papers holds 100 marks.

Schedule:

The Health Insurance paper is allotted a total of three hours time for the candidates to complete all their work.

Books recommended:

Life and Health Insurance, 13th Edition, Kenneth Black Jr.  Harold D. Skipper Jr.