How Do You Prepare for IIQE Paper II? The Official Parameters, and Why We Don't Publish Chapter Data Yet

Last updated 2026-08-10

For general business (property, liability, accident and the like), Paper II is required alongside Paper I.

The official parameters

All multiple choice, all questions must be attempted, set in both Chinese and English.

We do not have Paper II chapter data yet — stated plainly

For Papers I and III we publish a chapter-level expected-loss distribution built on real answers (Paper I · Paper III), because those papers have accumulated 4,057 and 3,295 answers respectively.

Paper II does not yet have a sufficient sample, so this page gives no chapter distribution.

We hold ourselves to a hard rule: if the answers we hold do not cover at least 95% of a paper's official chapter weighting, we do not publish difficulty data for that paper. A truncated denominator silently inflates the apparent importance of the chapters that remain, and the reader cannot see it happening. The rule is enforced by a script, not by memory.

(Which also means: when you see "the key chapters of Paper II" elsewhere, it is worth asking what the sample size was.)

So how should you allocate time on Paper II

Until we have data, we will only say things that have a source:

• Get the chapter weightings from the official syllabus. Handbook clauses 2.1.4 and 14.1 state that

the syllabus and study notes for each paper are downloadable free from both the PEAK website and the Insurance Authority website. Get those before buying any preparation material

• Allocating by weighting is a sound second-best starting point. It lacks the accuracy dimension,

but it at least avoids the "start at Chapter 1 and work through" trap of spending your best hours on material you already know

• Your own error log is your accuracy data. The reason the Paper I conclusion is counter-intuitive —

Chapter 1 being the worst place to start — is precisely that it adds the accuracy dimension

⚠️ To be explicit about terms: accuracy here means practice accuracy, not a pass rate, and the two are not convertible. We do not publish pass rates and we make no promises about examination outcomes.

Mange's Paper II question bank

Switchable Simplified / Traditional Chinese, an explanation for every wrong answer, practice ordered by your weak spots, 90-day access.

Your answers are what will make the Paper II data exist — the two distributions above were built exactly that way.

Related

• Which papers do you need
• Sitting from outside Hong Kong — the remote mode covers Paper II
• Format, pass mark and results

Sources and currency

Duration, question count, pass mark and the syllabus download channels are taken from the Insurance Intermediaries Qualifying Examination (Paper-and-Pencil and Computer-based Modes) Handbook (applicable from 1 September 2025); fees from clause 5.1 and item 5 of the remote-mode FAQ; retrieved 2026-08-09.

The handbook is versioned and both fees and syllabus are subject to change — check before enrolling. Mange does not own, and does not claim to own, copyright in any official examination material. Nothing here is enrolment advice or a promise about any examination outcome; the official announcements of the Insurance Authority and the PEAK Examination Centre govern.