You may take up to one year from date of purchase of any insurance CE course to complete the course and pass the exam.
Note for Texas: the Ethics course does not require a final exam to receive the credit hours. A series of quizzes must be successfully completed to receive credit hours in Texas.
Note for North Carolina: a series of quizzes must be successfully completed before taking the final exam.
In most states, you can take the final exam at any point. North Carolina requires that you spend 6 hours with the course material, and complete a series of quizzes, before taking the final exam.
In Texas, a series of quiz sections (60 periods in all) must be successfully completed in order to get full credit for the “Classroom Equivalent Course” (there is NO Final Exam).
In most states, the final exam for many insurance CE courses includes 50 multiple choice or true-false questions. Shorter courses may have fewer questions on the final exam.
For CFP® insurance courses:
15 hour courses have final exams of 150 questions.
8 1/2 hour courses usually have final exams of 85 questions.
Regardless of how many questions there may be on the final exam, you are allotted two hours and thirty minutes to complete each insurance CE course’s final exam.
If you are completing an exam online, your exam will be graded immediately after you complete each exam. You will be able to see if you passed and the percentage score on your computer screen.
If you are completing the paper exams, you may fax or mail your final exam to us. (In states where a monitor is required, your monitor must mail in the completed exams to our office along with any mandatory “Affidavits”.)
Relstone® / C.E. Credits, Inc. 5059 Newport Avenue, #209 San Diego, CA 92107
(619) 222-8593 Fax
Once we receive your completed exam(s), we will grade them within 24 hours. We will send you the completion certificate(s) in your enclosed self-addressed stamped envelope or we can email or fax within 24 hours with your results. We will include a completion certificate with the email or fax if you have passed the exam(s) you faxed to us.
FOR RUSH SERVICE:
You may fax your final exam to us, along with your completed affidavit if required, and receive your results within 2 business hours for a $75 rush fee. To arrange for Rush Service, please call us toll-free at 1-800-485-2660.
Note that our business hours for Relstone® Dollar CE Insurance School are:
Monday – Friday 6 am – 10 pm Pacific Time (9 am — 1 am Eastern Time)
Saturday – Sunday 9 am — 9 pm Pacific Time (12 noon — midnight Eastern Time)
For insurance CE courses, a grade of 70% or better is required to pass the course and receive credit hours.
For CFP® Code of Ethics courses, a grade of 80% or better is required to pass the course and receive credit hours. Other CFP® courses require a grade of 70% or better to pass.
If required in your state, you must complete an affidavit as part of the final exam process. If you are taking the final exam online, an affidavit will be available online.
You may either:
Complete the affidavit electronically.
Print the affidavit, complete and sign it, and fax to us at (619) 222-8593.
We report completion of courses every Wednesday to each state’s Department of Insurance.
Note: IF YOUR STATE REQUIRES AN AFFIDAVIT AND YOU FAIL TO COMPLETE ONE ONLINE OR BY FAX, YOUR CREDIT HOURS WILL NOT BE REPORTED.
Relstone® Dollar CE Insurance School reports the completion of your credit hours to your state Department of Insurance each Wednesday. We also pay any reporting fee required by your state — that reporting fee is included in your order at checkout.
If your State requires you to renew your insurance license, you must complete any required license paperwork for your state and pay any renewal fee to your state. See your Department of Insurance website for more information.
CFP®s: be sure to complete your exam at least 15 days before your renewal date. We report your date of completion each Wednesday to the CFP® Board; however, the CFP® Board may take up to 7-10 business days to post the credits to your record. So even if you complete your course(s) “on time” before your CE due date, you will be considered late if your credits are posted after your deadline.
We recommend you go to the CFP® Board website at www.cfp.net and SELF Report the course credits. Since our courses are registered with the CFP® Board, you should not have to pay the $20 Course Evaluation Fee.
Make sure to file the courses under our sponsor name, and list us exactly as “Cal-State Exams, Inc.” — make sure to include the hyphen, the comma and the period at the end of our sponsor name; note that the CFP® Board website is character sensitive, so be sure to capitalize the C, S, E and I.
Note: if you wish to use your insurance CE course(s) to renew a CFP® certificate AND any other insurance licenses, we can issue multiple completion certificates and report your completion to your state Department of Insurance and the CFP® Board (if applicable).
Additional certificate and reporting fees
Second Certificate and Reporting:
$40 one course or $50 for 2 or more courses
Third Certificate and Reporting:
$40 one course or $50 for 2 or more courses
Note: for CPA credit, the student must report completion of insurance credit hours.
In many states, you may use the same insurance CE course to renew more than one type of license. The following “double duty” and “triple duty” options may be available in your state:
Insurance license renewal and CFP® certificate renewal
Insurance license renewal and CPA renewal
CFP® certificate renewal and CPA renewal
Insurance license renewal, CFP® certificate renewal, and CPA renewal
If you wish to use your insurance CE course(s) to renew more than one license/certificate, we can issue multiple completion certificates and report your completion to your state Department of Insurance and the CFP Board (if applicable).
Additional certificate and reporting fees are:
Second Certificate and Reporting:
$40 one course or $50 for 2 or more courses
Third Certificate:
$40 one course or $50 for 2 or more courses
Note: for CPA renewals, it is up to the student to report completion of insurance credit hours.
