Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Qualifications Syllabus

Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Qualifications covers 7 subjects: Insurance, Legal and Regulatory Foundations (IF1 / R01), Underwriting and Risk Management, General Insurance Products and Claims, Personal Taxation and Financial Services Environment (R01 / R03), Investment Principles, Portfolios and Risk (R02), Pensions and Retirement Planning (R04 / R08) and Protection, Financial Protection and Holistic Planning (R05 / R06). Together they contain 26 chapters and 93 named topics.

The full Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Qualifications outline breaks down into 26 chapters, 93 topics and 216 sub-topics. Insurance, Legal and Regulatory Foundations (IF1 / R01) is the largest single subject with 18 topics across 4 chapters.

Roughly 115 hours for one full pass. That estimate allows about 45 minutes per topic plus 12 minutes per sub-topic, so it is first-pass coverage — revision, past papers and mock tests sit on top of it. At 3 hours a day that is about 5 weeks.

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