Study for New York's 17-55 exam against DFS's real blueprint.
New York's Life, Accident, and Health Insurance Agent/Broker exam (Series 17-55) is administered by PSI on behalf of the Department of Financial Services (DFS). LicensePath's diagnostic maps to New York's own candidate bulletin outline, so your practice time goes toward what New York's own weighting actually puts first on exam day.
What the real New York 17-55 exam looks like.
- Life & annuity product knowledge: 42.0%
- Health & government insurance product knowledge: 50.7%
- New York insurance law: 7.3%
This is PSI and DFS's real, fixed weighting from New York's official Insurance Candidate Bulletin, the same categories as "Blueprint categories" below.
Every question maps to a real category on DFS & PSI's candidate bulletin.
New York's own outline groups content more broadly than most states: two wide product-knowledge categories instead of nine narrow ones, plus a dedicated regulation category. LicensePath's blueprint mirrors that structure exactly rather than forcing New York into a generic template.
All 150 scored questions
- Life & Annuity Product Knowledge42.0%
- Health & Government Insurance Product Knowledge50.7%
- New York Insurance Law (Insurance Regulation)7.3%
Percentages are each category's real share of the 150-question exam, per PSI/DFS's official New York Insurance Candidate Bulletin. New York also offers separate single-line Life (17-51) and Accident & Health (17-52) exams, both covered in our content mapping alongside the combined 17-55 exam.
What the real New York Personal Lines exam looks like.
Every Personal Lines question maps to a real category on DFS & PSI's candidate bulletin.
Insurance Regulation — New York (10 of 100 scored questions)
- Insurance Regulation10%
Personal Lines — General Knowledge (90 of 100 scored questions)
- General Insurance10%
- Property and Casualty Insurance Basics17%
- Dwelling (2014) Policy8%
- Homeowners (2011) Policy24%
- Auto Insurance24%
- Other Coverages and Options7%
Percentages are each category's real share of the 100-question exam, per the NY DFS/PSI Services LLC Insurance Candidate Information Bulletin, "New York Personal Lines Insurance Agent/Broker Series 17-54."
Built from New York Insurance Law and DFS's own materials, not guesses.
Every New York question in LicensePath is cited to the actual current New York Insurance Law, fetched directly from the state's own legislation site section by section, then cross-checked against PSI and DFS's own candidate bulletins — for the combined 17-55 Life, Accident, and Health exam and for the separate Personal Lines (17-54) exam. New York is a genuinely different exam from Texas or Florida's multi-state template, and we built its blueprints from New York's own outlines rather than assuming they matched.
Curious how state exam blueprints are built, or why every practice question carries a citation? Two short guides cover both: what's actually on your state's insurance exam and why we cite every practice question.
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