Portfolio Expenses

This table describes the portfolio fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time you own the Contract . The table shows the minimum and maximum fees and expenses charged by any of the portfolios. More detail concerning portfolio fees and expenses is contained in the prospectus for the Series Fund.

SUMMARY OF THE CONTRACT

AND CONTRACT BENEFITS

Brief Description of the Contract

The Contract is a form of variable universal life insurance. Our variable appreciable life insurance policy is a flexible form of variable universal life insurance. It has a death benefit and a Contract Fund, the value of which changes every day according to the investment performance of the investment options to which you have allocated your net premiums. You may invest premiums in one or more of the 13 available variable investment options that invest in portfolios of The Prudential Series Fund, in the fixed rate option, or in the Real Property Account. Although the value of your Contract Fund may increase if there is favorable investment performance in the portfolios you select,

investment returns in the portfolios are NOT guaranteed. There is a risk that investment performance will be unfavorable and that the value of your Contract Fund will decrease. The risk will be different, depending upon which investment options you choose. You bear the risk of any decrease. Within certain limits, the Contract will provide you with some flexibility in determining the amount and timing of your premium payments. The Contract has a Tabular Contract Fund that is designed to encourage the payment of premiums and the accumulation of cash value. Some features and/or riders described in this prospectus may not be available in some states.

Types of Death Benefit Available Under the Contract

The death benefit is an important feature of the Contract. You may choose one of the following two forms of the Contract. They each have a different death benefit amount.

Contract Form   A, level death benefit: The death benefit will generally be equal to the face amount of insurance. It can never be less than this amount. The death benefit remains fixed in amount (unless the Contract becomes paid-up) and only the cash surrender value will vary with investment experience. Under a newer version, sold in most jurisdictions beginning in September 1986, the death benefit may be increased to ensure that the Contract continues to satisfy the Internal Revenue Code's definition of life insurance.

Contract Form   B, variable death benefit: The death benefit will increase and decrease as the amount of the Contract Fund varies with the investment performance of the selected options. However, the death benefit under Form B, as is true under Form A, will never be less than the initial face amount and it may also be increased to satisfy Internal Revenue Code requirements.

Throughout this prospectus the word “Contract” refers to both Form A and B unless specifically stated otherwise. Under both Form A and B Contracts there is no guaranteed minimum cash surrender value.

Death Benefit Guarantee

The Pruco Life Variable Appreciable Life Insurance Contract is a form of life insurance that provides much of the flexibility of variable universal life, however, with two important distinctions:

The Contract Fund

Your Contract Fund value changes daily, reflecting: (1) increases or decreases in the value of your variable investment options; (2) interest credited on any amounts allocated to the fixed rate option; (3) interest credited on any loan; and (4) the daily asset charge for mortality and expense risks assessed against the variable investment options. The Contract Fund value also changes to reflect the receipt of premium payments and the monthly deductions described under CHARGES AND EXPENSES .

Tabular Contract Fund

The Tabular Contract Fund is designed to encourage the payment of premiums and the accumulation of cash value. Even if a Scheduled Premium is not paid, the Contract will remain in-force as long as the Contract Fund on any Monthly date is equal to or greater than the Tabular Contract Fund Value on the next Monthly date.

The Tabular Contract Fund is a guideline representing the amount that would be in the Contract fund if all scheduled premiums are paid on their due dates, there are no unscheduled premiums paid, there are no withdrawals, the investment options you have chosen earn exactly a uniform rate of return of 4% per year, and we have deducted the maximum mortality, sales load and expense charges.

Premium Payments

Your Contract sets forth a Scheduled Premium which is payable annually, semi-annually, quarterly or monthly. We guarantee that, if the Scheduled Premiums are paid when due (or if missed premiums are paid later, with interest) and there are no withdrawals, the Contract will not lapse because of unfavorable investment experience. Your Contract may terminate if the Contract debt exceeds what the cash surrender value would be if there was no Contract debt. We will notify you before the Contract is terminated and you may then repay all or enough of the loan to keep the Contract in-force. See Loans .

Your Scheduled Premium consists of two amounts:

The payment of premiums in excess of Scheduled Premiums may cause the Contract to become a Modified Endowment Contract for federal income tax purposes. See PREMIUMS and Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits . Pruco Life will generally accept any premium payment of at least $25. You may be flexible with your premium payments depending on your Contract’s performance. If the performance of the Contract is less favorable and the Contract Fund is less than the Tabular Contract Fund Value the Contract would go into default.

Allocation of Premium Payments

When you apply for the Contract, you tell us how to allocate your premiums. You may change the way in which subsequent premiums are allocated by giving written notice to a Service Office, by our website, provided you are enrolled to use Prudential Online ^® Account Access, or by telephoning a Service Office, provided you are enrolled to use the Telephone Transfer System. See Allocation of Premiums .

On the Contract date, we deduct a $2 administrative charge, a deduction of up to 5% for sales charges, and 2.5% for taxes attributable to premiums from the initial premium. Then the first monthly charges are deducted. The remainder of the initial premium will be allocated among the variable investment options, the fixed rate option, or the Real Property Account according to the allocations you specified in the application form. The invested portion of any part of the initial premium in excess of the Scheduled Premium is generally placed in the selected investment options on the date of receipt in Good Order at the Payment Office (the address on your bill), but not earlier than the Contract date.

After the Contract date, we deduct a $2 administrative charge, a deduction of up to 5% for sales charges, and 2.5% for taxes attributable to premiums from each subsequent premium payment. After the deductions from premiums and the monthly charges are made, the remainder of each subsequent premium payment will be invested as of the end of the valuation period in which it is received in Good Order at the Payment Office, in accordance with the allocation you previously designated.

Investment Choices

You may choose to invest your Contract’s premiums and its earnings in one or more of the 13 available variable investment options that invest in portfolios of The Prudential Series Fund. You may also invest in the fixed rate option and the Real Property Account. See The Prudential Series Fund , The Fixed Rate Option , and The Pruco Life Variable Contract Real Property Account . Subsequent net premiums are applied to your Contract as of the date of receipt at the Payment Office.

We may add additional variable investment options in the future.

Transfers Among Investment Options

If the Contract is not in default, you may, up to four times each Contract year, transfer amounts among the variable investment options, to the fixed rate option, or to the Real Property Account. Additional transfers may be made only with our consent. Currently, we allow you to make additional transfers. There is no charge. For the first 20 transfers in a calendar year, you may transfer amounts by proper written notice to a Service Office, by our website, provided you are enrolled to use Prudential Online ^® Account Access, or by telephone, provided you are enrolled to use the Telephone Transfer System.

After you have submitted 20 transfers in a calendar year, we will accept subsequent transfer requests only if they are in a form acceptable to us, bear an original signature in ink, and are sent to us by U.S. regular mail.

Multiple transfers that occur during the same day, but prior to the end of the valuation period for that day, will be counted as a single transfer.

Certain restrictions may apply to transfers from the fixed rate option and the Real Property Account. We reserve the right to prohibit transfer requests determined to be disruptive to the investment option or to the disadvantage of other Contract owners.

Transfer restrictions will be applied in a uniform manner and will not be waived.

In addition, you may use our dollar cost averaging feature. See Transfers/Restrictions on Transfers , Dollar Cost Averaging .

Increasing or Decreasing the Face Amount

Subject to our underwriting requirements determined by us, after the first Contract anniversary you may increase the amount of insurance by increasing the face amount of the Contract. An increase in the face amount is similar to the purchase of a second Contract and must be at least $25,000. Other conditions must be met before we approve of an increase in the face amount. See Increases in the Face Amount .

You also have the additional option of decreasing the face amount of your Contract, without withdrawing any surrender value. The minimum permissible decrease is $10,000 and will not be permitted if it causes the face amount of the Contract to drop below the minimum face amount applicable to the Contract.

We may decline a reduction if we determine it would cause the Contract to fail to qualify as "life insurance" for purposes of Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code. In addition, if the face amount is decreased or a significant premium is paid in conjunction with an increase, there is a possibility that the Contract will be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Access to Contract Values

A Contract may be surrendered for its cash surrender value (the Contract Fund minus any Contract debt and minus any applicable surrender charges) while the insured is living. To surrender a Contract, we may require you to deliver or mail the Contract with a written request in a form that meets our needs, to a Service Office. The cash surrender value of a surrendered Contract will be determined as of the end of the valuation period in which such a request is received in a Service Office. Surrender of a Contract may have tax consequences. See Surrender of a Contract , and Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Under certain circumstances, you may withdraw a part of the Contract's cash surrender value without surrendering the Contract. The amount withdrawn must be at least $2,000 under a Form A Contract and at least $500 under a Form B Contract. There is an administrative processing fee for each withdrawal which is the lesser of: (a) $15 and; (b) 2% of the withdrawal amount. Withdrawal of the cash surrender value may have tax consequences. See Withdrawals , and Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Contract Loans

You may borrow money from us using your Contract as security for the loan. The maximum loan amount is equal to the sum of (1) 90% of the portion of the cash value attributable to the variable investment options and (2) the balance of the cash value. The cash value is equal to the Contract Fund less any surrender charge. The minimum loan amount you may borrow at any one time is generally $500, unless the loan proceeds are used to pay premiums on your Contract. The minimum loan amount may be lower in some states. See Loans .

Canceling the Contract

Generally, you may return the Contract for a refund within 10 days after you receive it. Some states allow a longer period of time during which a Contract may be returned for a refund. In general, you will receive a refund of all premium payments made, less any applicable federal and/or state income tax withholding. However, if applicable law does not require a refund of all premium payments made, you will receive the greater of (1) the Contract Fund plus

the amount of any charges that have been deducted or (2) all premium payments made, less any applicable federal and/or state income tax withholding. A Contract returned according to this provision shall be deemed void from the beginning.

SUMMARY OF CONTRACT RISKS

Contract Values are not Guaranteed

Your benefits (including life insurance) are not guaranteed, but may be entirely dependent on the investment performance of the variable investment options you select. The value of your Contract Fund rises and falls with the performance of the investment options you choose and the charges that we deduct. Poor investment performance could cause your Contract to lapse and you could lose your insurance coverage. However, we guarantee that if Scheduled Premiums are paid when due and there are no withdrawals, the Contract will not lapse because of unfavorable investment experience.

The variable investment options you choose may not perform to your expectations. Investing in the Contract involves risks including the possible loss of your entire investment. Only the fixed rate option provides a guaranteed rate of return. See Risks Associated with the Variable Investment Options and The Fixed Rate Option .

Limitation of Benefits on Certain Riders Concerning War or Armed Forces

We will not pay a benefit on any Accidental Death Benefit type rider or make payments for any disability type rider if the death or injury is caused or contributed to by war or act of war, declared or undeclared, including resistance to armed aggression. This restriction includes service in the armed forces of any country at war.

Increase in Charges

In several instances we will use the terms “maximum charge” and “current charge.” The “maximum charge,” in each instance, is the highest charge that we are entitled to make under the Contract. The “current charge” is the amount that we are now charging, which may be lower. If circumstances change, we reserve the right to increase each current charge, up to the maximum charge, without giving any advance notice.

Contract Lapse

If Scheduled Premiums are paid on or before each due date, or received within 61 days after the Scheduled Premiums are due, and there are no withdrawals or outstanding loans, a Contract will remain in-force even if the investment results of that Contract's variable investment option[s] have been so unfavorable that the Contract Fund has decreased to zero or less.

In addition, even if a Scheduled Premium is not paid, the Contract will remain in-force as long as the Contract Fund on any Monthly Date is equal to or greater than the Tabular Contract Fund Value on the following Monthly Date. However, if a Scheduled Premium is not paid, and the Contract Fund is insufficient to keep the Contract in-force, the Contract will go into default. Should this happen, we will notify you of the required payment to prevent your Contract from lapsing. Your payment must be received at the Payment Office within the 61-day grace period after the notice of default is mailed or the Contract will lapse. If your Contract does lapse, it will still provide some benefits. See LAPSE AND REINSTATEMENT . If you have an outstanding loan when your Contract lapses, you may have taxable income as a result. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits - Pre-Death Distributions .

Risks Involved with Using the Contract as a Short-Term Savings Vehicle

Because the Contract provides for an accumulation of a Contract Fund as well as a death benefit, you may wish to use it for various insurance planning purposes. Purchasing the Contract for such purposes may involve certain risks.

For example, a life insurance policy could play an important role in helping you to meet the future costs of a child’s education. The Contract’s death benefit could be used to provide for education costs should something happen to you, and its investment features could help you accumulate savings. However, if the variable investment options you choose perform poorly, or if you do not pay sufficient premiums, your Contract may lapse or you may not accumulate the funds you need. Accessing the values in your Contract through withdrawals and Contract loans may significantly affect current and future Contract values or death benefit proceeds and may increase the chance that your Contract will lapse. If you have an outstanding loan when your Contract lapses, you may have taxable income as a result. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits - Pre-Death Distributions .

The Contract is designed to provide benefits on a long-term basis. Consequently, you should not use the Contract as a short-term investment or savings vehicle. Because of the long-term nature of the Contract, you should consider whether the Contract is consistent with the purpose for which it is being considered.

Risks of Taking Withdrawals

We may limit you to no more than four withdrawals in a Contract year. The amount withdrawn must be at least $2,000 under a Form A Contract and at least $500 under a Form B Contract. You may make a withdrawal only to the extent that the cash surrender value plus any Contract loan exceeds the applicable tabular cash value. There is an administrative processing fee for each withdrawal which is the lesser of: (a) $15 and; (b) 2% of the withdrawal amount. Withdrawal of the cash surrender value may have tax consequences. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Whenever a withdrawal is made, the death benefit will immediately be reduced by at least the amount of the withdrawal. Withdrawals under Form B (variable) Contracts, will not change the face amount of insurance. However, under a Type A (fixed) Contract, the withdrawal will cause a reduction in the face amount of insurance by no more than the amount of the withdrawal. A surrender charge may be deducted. See CHARGES AND EXPENSES . It is important to note, that if the face amount of insurance is decreased, there is a possibility that the Contract might be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. Before making any withdrawal that causes a decrease in the face amount of insurance, you should consult with your tax adviser and your Pruco Life representative. See Withdrawals and Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Limitations on Transfers

All or a portion of the amount credited to a variable investment option may be transferred to another variable investment option, the fixed rate option, or the Real Property Account.

If the Contract is not in default, you may, up to four times each Contract year, transfer amounts among the variable investment options, to the fixed rate option, or to the Real Property Account. Additional transfers may be made only with our consent. Currently, we allow you to make additional transfers. There is no charge. For the first 20 transfers in a calendar year, you may transfer amounts by proper written notice to a Service Office, by our website, provided you are enrolled to use Prudential Online ^® Account Access, or by telephone, provided you are enrolled to use the Telephone Transfer System. We use reasonable procedures to confirm that instructions given by telephone are genuine. However, we are not liable for following telephone instructions that we reasonably believe to be genuine. In addition, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to get through to complete a telephone transfer during peak periods such as periods of drastic economic or market change.

After you have submitted 20 transfers in a calendar year, we will accept subsequent transfer requests only if they are in a form acceptable to us, bear an original signature in ink, and are sent to us by U.S. regular mail. After you have submitted 20 transfers in a calendar year, a subsequent transfer request by telephone, fax or electronic means will be rejected, even in the event that it is inadvertently processed.

Currently, certain transfers affected systematically under the dollar cost averaging program described in this prospectus do not count towards the limit of 20 transfers. In the future, we may count such transfers towards the limit.

Multiple transfers that occur during the same day, but prior to the end of the valuation period for that day, will be counted as a single transfer.

Generally, only one transfer from the fixed rate option is permitted during each Contract year and only during the 30-day period beginning on the Contract anniversary. The maximum amount you may transfer out of the fixed rate option each year is the greater of: (a) 25% of the amount in the fixed rate option; and (b) $2,000.

Transfers from the Real Property Account to the other investment options available under the Contract are currently permitted only during the 30-day period beginning on the Contract anniversary. The maximum amount that may be transferred out of the Real Property Account each year is the greater of: (a) 50% of the amount invested in the Real Property Account; and (b) $10,000. See the attached Real Property Account Prospectus.

We may modify your right to make transfers by restricting the number, timing and/or amount of transfers we find to be disruptive to the investment option or to the disadvantage of other Contract owners. We also reserve the right to prohibit transfer requests made by an individual acting under a power of attorney on behalf of more than one Contract owner. We will immediately notify you at the time of a transfer request if we exercise this right.

Transfer restrictions will be applied uniformly and will not be waived. See Transfers/Restrictions on Transfers .

Charges on Surrender of the Contract

You may surrender your Contract at any time. We deduct a surrender charge from the surrender proceeds. In addition, the surrender of your Contract may have tax consequences. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

A Contract may be surrendered for its cash surrender value while the insured is living. We will assess a surrender charge if, during the first 10 Contract years (or 10 years from an increase in the face amount of insurance), the Contract lapses, is surrendered, or the face amount of insurance is decreased (including as a result of a withdrawal). The surrender charge is determined by the primary annual premium amount. It is calculated as described in Surrender Charges . While the amount of the surrender charge decreases over time, it may be a substantial portion or even equal your Contract Fund. Surrender of a Contract may have tax consequences. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Risks of Taking a Contract Loan

Accessing the values in your Contract through Contract loans may significantly affect current and future Contract values or death benefit proceeds and may increase the chance that your Contract will lapse. Your Contract will be in default if at any time the Contract Fund (which includes the loan) less any applicable surrender charges is less than the Tabular Contract Fund. If the Contract lapses or is surrendered, the amount of unpaid Contract debt will be treated as a distribution and will be immediately taxable to the extent of the gain in the Contract. In addition, if your Contract is a Modified Endowment Contract for tax purposes, taking a Contract loan may have tax consequences. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

If your Contract Fund is less than your Contract debt your Contract will terminate 61 days after we notify you.

Potential Tax Consequences

Your Policy is structured to meet the definition of life insurance under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code. Consequently, we reserve the right to refuse to accept a premium payment that would, in our opinion, cause this Contract to fail to qualify as life insurance. We also have the right to refuse to accept any payment that increases the death benefit by more than it increases the Contract fund. Although we believe that the Contract should qualify as life insurance for tax purposes, there are some uncertainties, particularly because the Secretary of Treasury has not yet issued permanent regulations that bear on this question. Accordingly, we reserve the right to make changes -- which will be applied uniformly to all Contract owners after advance written notice -- that we deem necessary to insure that the Contract will qualify as life insurance.

Current federal tax law generally excludes all death benefits from the gross income of the beneficiary of a life insurance contract. However, your death benefit could be subject to estate tax. In addition, you generally are not subject to taxation on any increase in the policy value until it is withdrawn. Generally, you are taxed on surrender proceeds and the proceeds of any partial withdrawals only if those amounts, when added to all previous distributions, exceed the total premiums paid. Amounts received upon surrender or withdrawal (including any outstanding Contract loans) in excess of premiums paid are treated as ordinary income.

Special rules govern the tax treatment of life insurance policies that meet the federal definition of a Modified Endowment Contract. The Contract could be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract if premiums in amounts that are too large are paid or a decrease in the face amount of insurance is made (or a rider removed). The addition of a rider or an increase in the face amount of insurance may also cause the Contract to be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. We will notify you if a premium or a reduction in the face amount would cause the Contract to become a Modified Endowment Contract, and advise you of your options.

Under current tax law, death benefit payments under Modified Endowment Contracts, like death benefit payments under other life insurance Contracts, generally are excluded from the gross income of the beneficiary. However, amounts you receive under the Contract before the insured's death, including loans and withdrawals, are included in income to the extent that the Contract Fund before surrender charges exceeds the premiums paid for the Contract increased by the amount of any loans previously included in income and reduced by any untaxed amounts previously received other than the amount of any loans excludible from income. An assignment of a Modified Endowment Contract is taxable in the same way. These rules also apply to pre-death distributions, including loans and assignments, made during the two-year period before the time that the Contract became a Modified Endowment Contract.

All Modified Endowment Contracts issued by us to you during the same calendar year are treated as a single Contract for purposes of applying these rules. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Any taxable income on pre-death distributions (including full surrenders) is subject to a penalty of 10% unless the amount is received on or after age 59½, on account of your becoming disabled or as a life annuity. It is presently unclear how the penalty tax provisions apply to Contracts owned by businesses.

Replacement of the Contract

The replacement of life insurance is generally not in your best interest. In most cases, if you require additional life insurance coverage, the benefits of your existing contract can be protected by increasing the insurance amount of your existing contract, or by purchasing an additional contract. If you are considering replacing a contract, you should compare the benefits and costs of supplementing your existing contract with the benefits and costs of purchasing a new contract and you should consult with a tax adviser.

SUMMARY OF RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH

THE VARIABLE INVESTMENT OPTIONS

You may choose to invest your Contract’s premiums and its earnings in one or more of 13 available variable investment options. You may also invest in the fixed rate option or the Real Property Account. The fixed rate option is the only investment option that offers a guaranteed rate of return. See The Prudential Series Fund , The Fixed Rate Option and The Pruco Life Variable Contract Real Property Account .

Risks Associated with the Variable Investment Options

The separate account invests in the shares of one or more open-end management investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 other than the Real Property Account, which invests in a Real Property Partnership. See the accompanying prospectus for the Pruco Life Real Property Account. Each variable investment option has its own investment objective and associated risks, which are described in the accompanying Series Fund prospectus. The income, gains, and losses of one variable investment option have no effect on the investment performance of any other variable investment option.

We do not promise that the variable investment options will meet their investment objectives. Amounts you allocate to the variable investment options may grow in value, decline in value or grow less than you expect, depending on the investment performance of the variable investment options you choose. You bear the investment risk that the variable investment options may not meet their investment objectives. It is possible to lose your entire investment in the variable investment options. Although the Series Fund Money Market Portfolio is designed to be a stable investment option, it is possible to lose money in that Portfolio. For example, when prevailing short-term interest rates are very low, the yield on the Money Market Portfolio may be so low that, when separate account and Contract charges are deducted, you experience a negative return. See The Prudential Series Fund .

Learn More about the Variable Investment Options

Before allocating amounts to the variable investment options, you should read the current Series Fund prospectus for detailed information concerning their investment objectives, strategies, and investment risks.

GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE REGISTRANT, DEPOSITOR, AND PORTFOLIO COMPANY

Pruco Life Insurance Company

Pruco Life Insurance Company ("Pruco Life", “us”, “we”, or “our”) is a stock life insurance company, organized on December 23, 1971 under the laws of the state of Arizona. It is licensed to sell life insurance and annuities in the District of Columbia, Guam, and in all states except New York. Pruco Life’s principal Executive Office is located at 213 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102.

The Pruco Life Variable Appreciable Account

Pruco Life has established a separate account, the Pruco Life Variable Appreciable Account (the "Account") to hold the assets that are associated with the Contracts. The Account was established on January 13, 1984 under Arizona law and is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as a unit investment trust, which is a type of investment company. The Account meets the definition of a

"separate account" under the federal securities laws. The Account holds assets that are segregated from all of Pruco Life's other assets.

Pruco Life is the legal owner of the assets in the Account. Pruco Life will maintain assets in the Account with a total market value at least equal to the reserve and other liabilities relating to the variable benefits attributable to the Contracts. In addition to these assets, the Account's assets may include funds contributed by Pruco Life to commence operation of the Account and may include accumulations of the charges we make against the Account. From time to time these additional assets will be transferred to Pruco Life's general account. Pruco Life will consider any possible adverse impact the transfer might have on the Account before making any such transfer.

Income, gains and losses credited to, or charged against, the Account reflect the Account’s own investment experience and not the investment experience of Pruco Life’s other assets. The assets of the Account may not be charged with liabilities that arise from any other business Pruco Life conducts.

The obligations to Contract owners and beneficiaries arising under the Contracts are general corporate obligations of Pruco Life.

Currently, you may invest in one or a combination of 13 available variable investment options. When you choose a variable investment option, we purchase shares of a mutual fund or a separate investment series of a mutual fund that are held as an investment for that option. We hold these shares in the Account. We may remove or add additional variable investment options in the future. The Account’s financial statements are available in the Statement of Additional Information to this prospectus.

The Prudential Series Fund

The Prudential Series Fund (the “Series Fund”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end diversified management investment company. Its shares are currently sold only to separate accounts of Prudential and certain other insurers that offer variable life insurance and variable annuity contracts. On October 31, 1986, the Pruco Life Series Fund, Inc, an open-end diversified management investment company, which sold its shares only to separate accounts of Pruco Life and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey (“Pruco Life of New Jersey”), was merged into the Prudential Series Fund. Prior to that date, the Account invested only in shares of Pruco Life Series Fund, Inc.

The Account will purchase and redeem shares from the Series Fund at net asset value. Shares will be redeemed to the extent necessary for us to provide benefits under the Contract and to transfer assets from one variable investment option to another, as requested by Contract owners. Any dividend or capital gain distribution received from a portfolio of the Series Fund will be reinvested immediately at net asset value in shares of that portfolio and retained as assets of the corresponding variable investment option.

The Series Fund has a separate prospectus that is provided with this prospectus. You should read the Series Fund prospectus before you decide to allocate assets to the Portfolios. There is no assurance that the investment objectives of the Portfolios will be met. There may be Portfolios described in the accompanying Fund prospectus that are not available on this product. Please refer to the list below to see which Portfolios you may choose as your variable investment options.

CHARGES AND EXPENSES

The total amount invested in the Contract Fund, at any time, consists of the sum of the amount credited to the variable investment options, the amount allocated to the fixed rate option, plus any interest credited on amounts allocated to the fixed rate option, the amount allocated to the Real Property Account, and the principal amount of any Contract loan plus the amount of interest credited to the Contract upon that loan. See Loans . Most charges, although not all, are made by reducing the Contract Fund.

In several instances we use the terms "maximum charge" and "current charge." The "maximum charge", in each instance, is the highest charge that we may make under the Contract. The "current charge", in each instance, is the

amount that we now charge, which may be lower than maximum charges. If circumstances change, we reserve the right to increase each current charge, up to the maximum charge, without giving any advance notice.

Current charges deducted from premium payments and the Contract Fund may change from time to time, subject to maximum charges. In deciding whether to change any of these current charges, we will periodically consider factors such as mortality, persistency, expenses, taxes and interest and/or investment experience to see if a change in our assumptions is needed. Charges for taxes attributable to premiums will be set at one rate for all Contracts like this one. Changes in other charges will be by class. We will not recoup prior losses or distribute prior gains by means of these changes.

This section provides a more detailed description of each charge that is described briefly in the SUMMARY OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES , beginning on page 1 of this prospectus.

Deduction from Premiums

We deduct a charge of $2 from each premium payment to cover the cost of collecting and processing premiums. Thus, if you pay premiums annually, this charge will be $2 per year. If you pay premiums monthly, the charge will be $24 per year. If you pay premiums more frequently, for example under a payroll deduction plan with your employer, the charge may be more than $24 per year.

Taxes Attributable to Premiums

We deduct a charge of 2.5% for taxes attributable to premiums from each premium payment we receive. The premium tax charge is our estimate of the average burden of state taxes generally. Tax rates vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and generally range from 0% to 5% (but may exceed 5% in some instances). The rate applies uniformly to all Contract owners without regard to location of residence. We may collect more for this charge than we actually pay for state and local premium taxes.

Under current law, we may incur state and local taxes (in addition to premium taxes) in several states. Currently, these taxes are not significant and they are not charged against the Account. If there is a material change in the applicable state or local tax laws, we may impose a corresponding charge against the Account.

Sales Load Charges

We may charge up to 5% of premiums paid for sales expenses in all Contract years. This charge, often called a “sales load”, is deducted to compensate us for the costs of selling the Contracts, including commissions, advertising, and the printing and distribution of prospectuses and sales literature. We will deduct part of this sales load from each premium received whether scheduled or unscheduled in an amount up to 5% of the portion of the premium remaining after the $2 administrative charge has been deducted. See Deduction from Premiums.

We will deduct the remainder of the sales load only if the Contract is surrendered or stays in default past its days of grace. This second part is called the deferred sales charge. However, we will not deduct the deferred sales charge for Contracts that lapse or are surrendered on or after the Contract's 10th anniversary. The deferred sales charge will be reduced for Contracts that lapse or are surrendered sometime between the eighth month of the sixth year and the 10th anniversary. No deferred sales charge is applicable to the death benefit, no matter when that becomes payable.

For Contracts under which premiums are payable annually, we charge the maximum deferred sales charge if the Contract lapses or is surrendered, until the seventh month of the sixth Contract year, or if there is an increase in the face amount of insurance. Thereafter, the sales charge will be the maximum charge reduced uniformly until it becomes zero at the end of the 10th Contract year. More precisely, the deferred sales charge will be the maximum charge reduced by a factor equal to the number of complete months that have elapsed between the end of the sixth month in the Contract's sixth year and the date of surrender or lapse, divided by 54 (since there are 54 months between that date and the Contract's 10th anniversary). The following table shows illustrative deferred sales load charges that will be made when such Contracts are surrendered or lapse.

For Contracts under which premiums are payable more frequently than annually, the deferred sales charge will be 25% of the first year's Scheduled Premiums due on or before the date of surrender or lapse and 5% of the Scheduled Premiums for the second through fifth Contract years due on or before the date of surrender or lapse. Thus, for such Contracts the maximum deferred sales charge will also be equal to 9% of the total Scheduled Premiums for the first five Contract years. This amount will be higher in dollar amount than it would have been had premiums been paid annually because the total of the Scheduled Premiums is higher. See PREMIUMS . To compensate for this, the reduction in the deferred sales charge will start slightly earlier for Contracts under which premiums are paid semi-annually, still earlier if premiums are paid quarterly and even earlier if premiums are paid monthly. The reductions are graded smoothly so that the dollar amount of the deferred sales charge for two persons of the same age, sex, Contract size, and Contract Date, will be identical beginning in the seventh month of the sixth Contract year without regard to the frequency at which premiums were paid.

For purposes of determining the deferred sales charge, the Scheduled Premium is the premium payable for an insured in the Preferred rating class, even if the insured is in a higher rated risk class. Moreover, if premiums have been paid in excess of the Scheduled Premiums, the charge is based upon the Scheduled Premiums. If a Contract is surrendered when less than the aggregate amount of the Scheduled Premiums due on or before the date of surrender has been paid, the deferred sales charge percentages will be applied to the premium payments due on or before the fifth anniversary date that were actually paid, whether timely or not, before surrender.

We waive the portion of the sales load deducted from each premium (5% of the portion of the premium remaining after the $2 processing charge has been deducted) for premiums paid beyond five years of Scheduled Premiums on an annual basis. Thus, with respect to a premium paid after that total is reached, only the 2.5% premium tax charge and the $2 processing charge is deducted before the premium is allocated to the investment option[s] you choose. We may, on a uniform and non-contractual basis, withdraw or modify this concession, although we do not currently intend to do so. If you elect to increase the face amount of your Contract, the rules governing the non-guaranteed waiver of the 5% front-end sales load will apply separately to the base Contract and the increase. See Increases in the Face Amount .

Cost of Insurance

We deduct a monthly COI charge proportionately from the dollar amounts held in each of the chosen investment options. The purpose of this charge is to provide insurance coverage. When an insured dies, the amount payable to the beneficiary (assuming there is no Contract debt) is larger than the Contract Fund - significantly larger if the insured dies in the early years of a Contract. The COI charges collected from all Contract owners enables us to pay this larger death benefit. The maximum COI charge is determined by multiplying the amount by which the Contract’s death benefit exceeds the Contract Fund ("net amount at risk") under a Contract by maximum COI rates.

The net amount at risk is affected by factors such as: investment performance, premium payments, and charges. The maximum COI rates are based upon the 1980 Commissioners Standard Ordinary ("CSO") Mortality Tables and an insured's current attained age, sex (except where unisex rates apply), smoker/nonsmoker status, and extra rating class, if any. At most ages, our current COI rates are lower than the maximum rates. Current COI charges range from $0.06 to $83.34 per $1,000 of net amount at risk.

Monthly Deductions from the Contract Fund

We deduct the following monthly charges proportionately from the dollar amounts held in each of the chosen investment option[s].

The earnings of the Account are taxed as part of the operations of Pruco Life. Currently, no charge is being made to the Account for Pruco Life’s federal income taxes. We periodically review the question of a charge to the Account for Pruco Life’s federal income taxes. We may charge such a fee in the future for any federal income taxes that would be attributable to the Contracts.

Daily Deduction from the Variable Investment Options

Each day we deduct a charge from the assets of each of the variable investment options in an amount equivalent to an effective annual rate of 0.60%. This charge is intended to compensate us for assuming mortality and expense risks under the Contract. The mortality risk we assume is that insureds may live for shorter periods of time than we estimated when mortality charges were determined. The expense risk we assume is that expenses incurred in issuing and administering the Contract will be greater than we estimated in fixing our administrative charges. This charge is not assessed against amounts allocated to the fixed rate option.

Surrender Charges

We assess a surrender charge if the Contract is surrendered or lapses when it is in default past its days of grace. This charge is made to compensate us for costs associated with the Contracts, such as: processing applications, conducting examinations, determining insurability and the insured's rating class, and establishing records. We deduct $5 per $1,000 of the face amount of insurance (excluding the automatic increase for Contracts issued on insureds aged 14 or less) if the Contract is surrendered or lapses, unless it stays in-force until the end of the 10 ^th Contract year (later if additional insurance is added after issue). However, we reduce this charge for Contracts that lapse or are surrendered after the 5 ^th Contract anniversary. For each full additional month that the Contract stays in-force on a premium paying basis, we will reduce the surrender charge by $0.0833 per $1,000 of the initial face amount of insurance until it reaches zero at the end of the 10 ^th Contract year. We do not deduct a surrender charge from the death benefit if the insured dies during the first 10 Contract years or 10 years from an increase in the face amount of insurance.

Transaction Charges

Portfolio Charges

We deduct charges from and pay expenses out of the variable investment options as described in the Series Fund prospectus.

Rider Charges

Contract owners may be able to obtain additional benefits, which may increase the Scheduled Premium. These optional insurance benefits are described in what is known as a “rider” to the Contract. We deduct a monthly charge from the Contract Fund if additional benefits cause an increase to your Scheduled Premium.

PERSONS HAVING RIGHTS UNDER THE CONTRACT

Contract Owner

Generally, the Contract owner is the insured. There are circumstances when the Contract owner is not the insured. There may also be more than one Contract owner. If the Contract owner is not the insured or there is more than one Contract owner, they will be named in an endorsement to the Contract. This ownership arrangement will remain in effect unless you ask us to change it.

You may change the ownership of the Contract by sending us a request in a form that meets our needs. We may ask you to send us the Contract to be endorsed. If we receive your request in a form that meets our needs, and the Contract if we ask for it, we will file and record the change, and it will take effect as of the date you sign the request.

While the insured is living, the Contract owner is entitled to any Contract benefit and value. Only the Contract owner is entitled to exercise any right and privilege granted by the Contract or granted by us. For example, the Contract owner is entitled to surrender the Contract, access Contract values through loans or withdrawals, assign the Contract, and to name or change the beneficiary.

Beneficiary

The beneficiary is entitled to receive any benefit payable on the death of the insured. You may designate or change a beneficiary by sending us a request in a form that meets our needs. We may ask you to send us the Contract to be endorsed. If we receive your request in a form that meets our needs, and the Contract if we ask for it, we will file and record the change and it will take effect as of the date you sign the request. However, if we make any payment(s) before we receive the request, we will not have to make the payment(s) again. When we are made aware of an assignment, we will recognize the assignee’s rights before any claim payments are made to the beneficiary. When a beneficiary is designated, any relationship shown is to the insured, unless otherwise stated.

OTHER GENERAL CONTRACT PROVISIONS

Assignment

This Contract may not be assigned if the assignment would violate any federal, state or local law or regulation prohibiting sex distinct rates for insurance. Generally, the Contract may not be assigned to an employee benefit plan or program without our consent. We assume no responsibility for the validity or sufficiency of any assignment. We will not be obligated to comply with any assignment unless we receive a copy at a Service Office.

Incontestability

We will not contest the Contract after it has been in-force during the insured’s lifetime for two years from the issue date, the reinstatement date, or the effective date of any change made to the Contract that requires our approval and would increase our liability.

Misstatement of Age or Sex

If the insured's stated age or sex or both are incorrect in the Contract, we will adjust the death benefit payable and any amount to be paid, as required by law, to reflect the correct age and sex. If we learn of the inaccuracy after the insured’s death, any such benefit will be based on what the most recent deductions from the Contract Fund would have provided at the insured's correct age and sex. If we learn of the inaccuracy before the insured’s death, the face amount will be adjusted to what the current scheduled premium would have purchased at the correct age and sex.

Settlement Options

The Contract grants to most Contract owners, or to the beneficiary, a variety of optional ways of receiving Contract proceeds, other than in a lump sum. Any Pruco Life representative can explain these options upon request.

Suicide Exclusion

Generally, if the insured, whether sane or insane, dies by suicide within two years from the Contract date, the Contract will end and we will return the premiums paid, less any Contract debt, and less any withdrawals. Generally, if the insured, whether sane or insane, dies by suicide after two years from the issue date, but within two years of the effective date of an increase in the face amount, we will pay, as to the increase in amount, no more than the sum of the premiums paid on and after the effective date of an increase.

RIDERS

Contract owners may be able to obtain additional benefits, which may increase the Scheduled Premium. If they do cause an increase in the Scheduled Premium, the charge for the additional benefits will be paid by making monthly deductions from the Contract Fund. These optional insurance benefits will be described in what is known as a “rider” to the Contract. One rider pays certain premiums into the Contract if the insured dies in an accident. Others waive certain premiums if the insured is disabled within the meaning of the provision (or, in the case of a Contract issued on an insured under the age of 15, if the applicant dies or becomes disabled within the meaning of the provision). Others pay certain premiums into the Contract if the insured dies within a stated number of years after issue; similar term insurance riders may be available for the insured's spouse or child. The amounts of these benefits are fully guaranteed at issue and do not depend on the performance of the Account. Certain restrictions may apply; they are clearly described in the applicable rider. Any Pruco Life representative can explain these extra benefits further. Samples of the provisions are available from Pruco Life upon written request.

Under one form of rider, which provides monthly renewable term life insurance, the amount payable upon the death of the insured may be substantially increased. If this rider is purchased, even the original Contract will not become paid-up, although, if the Contract Fund becomes sufficiently large, a time may come when Pruco Life will have the right to refuse to accept further premiums. See When a Contract Becomes Paid-Up .

Under another form of rider that is purchased for a single premium, businesses that own a Contract covering certain employees may be able to change the insured person from one key employee to another if certain requirements are met. Any Pruco Life representative can explain these extra benefits further. Samples of the provisions are available from Pruco Life upon written request.

We will not pay a benefit on any Accidental Death Benefit type rider or make payments for any disability type rider if the death or injury is caused or contributed to by war or act of war, declared or undeclared, including resistance to armed aggression. This restriction includes service in the armed forces of any country at war.

Living Needs Benefit Rider - The Living Needs Benefit ^SM Rider may be available on your Contract. The benefit may vary by state. There is no charge for adding the benefit to a Contract. However, when a claim is paid under this rider, a reduction for early payment is applied and a processing fee of up to $150 per Contract will be deducted.

Subject to state regulatory approval, the Living Needs Benefit allows you to elect to receive an accelerated payment of all or part of the Contract's death benefit, adjusted to reflect current value, at a time when certain special needs exist. The adjusted death benefit will always be less than the death benefit, but will never be lower than the Contract's cash surrender value. One or both of the following options may be available. You should consult with a Pruco Life representative about whether additional options may be available .

The Terminal Illness Option is available on the Living Needs Benefit Rider if the insured is diagnosed as terminally ill with a life expectancy of six months or less. When satisfactory evidence is provided, we will provide an accelerated payment of the portion of the death benefit selected by the Contract owner as a Living Needs Benefit . The Contract

owner may (1) elect to receive the benefit in a single sum or (2) receive equal monthly payments for six months. If the insured dies before all the payments have been made, the present value of the remaining payments will be paid to the beneficiary designated in the Living Needs Benefit claim form.

The Nursing Home Option is available on the Living Needs Benefit Rider after the insured has been confined to an eligible nursing home for six months or more. When satisfactory evidence is provided, including certification by a licensed physician, that the insured is expected to remain in the nursing home until death, we will provide an accelerated payment of the portion of the death benefit selected by the Contract owner as a Living Needs Benefit . The Contract owner may (1) elect to receive the benefit in a single sum or (2) receive equal monthly payments for a specified number of years (not more than 10 nor less than two), depending upon the age of the insured. If the insured dies before all of the payments have been made, the present value of the remaining payments will be paid to the beneficiary designated in the Living Needs Benefit claim form in a single sum.

Subject to state approval, all or part of the Contract's death benefit may be accelerated under the Living Needs Benefit . If the benefit is only partially accelerated, a death benefit of at least $25,000 must remain under the Contract. Pruco Life reserves the right to determine the minimum amount that may be accelerated.

No benefit will be payable if you are required to elect it in order to meet the claims of creditors or to obtain a government benefit. We can furnish details about the amount of Living Needs Benefit that is available to an eligible Contract owner, and the effect on the Contract if less than the entire death benefit is accelerated.

You should consider whether adding this settlement option is appropriate in your given situation. Adding the Living Needs Benefit to the Contract has no adverse consequences; however, electing to use it could. With the exception of certain business-related Contracts, the Living Needs Benefit is excluded from income if the insured is terminally ill or chronically ill as defined in the tax law (although the exclusion in the latter case may be limited). You should consult a tax adviser before electing to receive this benefit. Receipt of a Living Needs Benefit payment may also affect your eligibility for certain government benefits or entitlements.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF A CONTRACT

As of May 1, 1992, Pruco Life no longer offered these Contracts for sale. Generally, the minimum initial guaranteed death benefit was $60,000. However, higher minimums are applied to insureds over the age of 75. Insureds 14 years of age or less may have applied for a minimum initial guaranteed death benefit of $40,000. The Contract was generally issued on insureds below the age of 81. Before issuing any Contract, Pruco Life required evidence of insurability, which may have included a medical examination. Nonsmokers who met Preferred underwriting requirements were offered the most favorable premium rate. A higher premium is charged if an extra mortality risk is involved. Certain classes of Contracts, for example a Contract issued in connection with a tax-qualified pension plan, may have been issued on a "guaranteed issue" basis and may have a lower minimum initial death benefit than a Contract that was individually underwritten. These are the current underwriting requirements. We reserve the right to change them on a non-discriminatory basis.

PREMIUMS

Scheduled Premiums on the Contract are payable during the insured's lifetime on an annual, semi-annual, quarterly or monthly basis on due dates set forth in the Contract. If you pay premiums more often than annually, the aggregate annual premium will be higher to compensate us both for the additional processing costs (see CHARGES AND EXPENSES ) and for the loss of interest (computed generally at an annual rate of 8%) incurred because premiums are paid throughout rather than at the beginning of each Contract year. The premium amount depends on the Contract's initial death benefit and the insured's age at issue, sex (except where unisex rates apply), and risk classification. If you pay premiums other than on a monthly basis, you will receive a notice that a premium is due about three weeks before each due date. If you pay premiums monthly, we will send to you each year a book with 12 coupons that will serve as a reminder. You may change the frequency of premium payments with our consent.

You may elect to have monthly premiums paid automatically under the “Pru-Matic Premium Plan” by pre-authorized transfers from a bank checking account. Currently, Contract owners selecting the Pru-Matic Premium Plan on Contracts issued after June 1, 1987 will have reduced current monthly expense charges. See CHARGES AND EXPENSES . You may also be eligible to have monthly premiums paid by pre-authorized deductions from an employer's payroll.

A significant feature of this Contract is that it permits you to pay greater than Scheduled Premiums. You may make unscheduled premium payments occasionally or on a periodic basis. If you wish, you may select a higher contemplated premium than the Scheduled Premium. Pruco Life will then bill you for the chosen premium. In general, the regular payment of higher premiums will result in higher cash surrender values and, at least under Form B, in higher death benefits. Conversely, a Scheduled Premium does not need to be made if the Contract Fund is large

enough to enable the charges due under the Contract to be made without causing the Contract to lapse. See LAPSE AND REINSTATEMENT . The payment of premiums in excess of Scheduled Premiums may cause the Contract to become a Modified Endowment Contract for federal income tax purposes. If this happens, loans and other distributions, which would otherwise not be taxable events, may be subject to federal income taxation. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Pruco Life will generally accept any premium payment of at least $25. Pruco Life reserves the right to limit unscheduled premiums to a total of $10,000 in any Contract year, and to refuse to accept premiums that would immediately result in more than a dollar-for-dollar increase in the death benefit. The flexibility of premium payments provides Contract owners with different opportunities under the two Forms of the Contract. Greater than scheduled payments under a Form A Contract increase the Contract Fund. Greater than scheduled payments under a Form B Contract increase both the Contract Fund and the death benefit. Generally, any future increases in the Contract Fund will be less than under a Form A Contract because the monthly mortality charges under the Form B Contract will be higher to compensate for the higher amount of insurance. For all Contracts, the privilege of making large or additional premium payments offers a way of investing amounts, which accumulate without current income taxation.

Each Contract sets forth two premium amounts. The initial premium amount is payable on the Contract Date (the date the Contract was issued, as noted in each individual Contract) and on each subsequent due date until the Contract's anniversary immediately following the insured's 65th birthday (or until the Contract's tenth anniversary, if that is later). The second and higher premium amount set forth in the Contract is payable on and after that anniversary (the “premium change date”). However, if the amount invested under the Contract, net of any excess premiums, is higher than it would have been had only Scheduled Premiums been paid, had maximum contractual charges been deducted, and had only an average net rate of return of 4% been earned, then the second premium amount will be lower than the maximum amount stated in the Contract. We will tell you what the amount of your second premium will be. Under the original version of the Contracts, if investment experience has been favorable enough, the Contract may become paid-up before or by the premium change date. We reserve the right not to accept any further premium payments on a paid-up Contract.

The Contracts include a premium change date, with Scheduled Premiums potentially increasing after that date to a second premium amount. Thus, you are provided with both the flexibility to pay lower initial Scheduled Premiums and a guarantee of lifetime insurance coverage, if all Scheduled Premiums are paid.

The following table shows, for two face amounts, representative initial Preferred rating and Standard rating annual premium amounts under either Form A or Form B Contracts issued on insureds who are not substandard risks:

The following table compares annual and monthly premiums for insureds who are in the Preferred rating class. Note that in these examples the sum of 12 monthly premiums for a particular Contract is approximately 105% to 109% of the annual premium for that Contract.

You may select a higher contemplated premium than the Scheduled Premium. We will bill you for the chosen premium. In general, the regular payment of higher premiums will result in higher cash surrender values and, at least under Form B, in higher death benefits. Under the original version of the Contracts, such payments may also provide a means of obtaining a paid-up Contract earlier than if only Scheduled Premiums are paid.

In some cases the payment of greater than Scheduled Premiums or favorable investment experience may result in the Contract becoming paid-up so that no further premium payments will be necessary. If this happens, Pruco Life may refuse to accept any further premium payments. If a Contract becomes paid-up, the death benefit then in-force becomes the guaranteed minimum death benefit; apart from this guarantee, the death benefit and the cash surrender value of the paid-up Contract will thereafter vary daily to reflect the investment experience of amounts invested under the Contract. Contracts sold beginning in September 1986 in jurisdictions where all necessary approvals have been obtained will no longer become paid-up. Instead, the death benefit will be increased so that it is always at least as great as the Contract Fund divided by the net single premium for the insured's attained age at such time. See How a Contract's Death Benefit Will Vary . The term “Contract Fund” refers generally to the total amount invested under the Contract and is defined under CHARGES AND EXPENSES . The term “net single premium,” the factor which determines how much the death benefit will increase for a given increase in the Contract Fund, is defined and illustrated under item 2 of How a Contract's Death Benefit Will Vary . Whenever the death benefit is determined in this way, Pruco Life reserves the right to refuse to accept further premium payments, although in practice the payment of the lesser of two years' Scheduled Premiums or the average of all premiums paid over the last five years will generally be allowed.

The payment of premiums substantially in excess of Scheduled Premiums may cause the Contract to be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. If this happens, loans and other distributions which otherwise would not be taxable events may be subject to federal income taxation. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Allocation of Premiums

On the Contract date, we deduct a $2 administrative charge, a deduction of up to 5% for sales charges, and 2.5% for taxes attributable to premiums from the initial premium. Then the first monthly charges are deducted. The remainder of the initial premium will be allocated among the variable investment options, the fixed rate option, or the Real Property Account according to the allocations you specified in the application form. The invested portion of any part of the initial premium in excess of the Scheduled Premium is generally placed in the selected investment options on the date of receipt in Good Order at the Payment Office, but not earlier than the Contract date.

After the Contract date, we deduct a $2 administrative charge, a deduction of up to 5% for sales charges, and 2.5% for taxes attributable to premiums from each subsequent premium payment. After the deductions from premiums and the monthly charges are made, the remainder of each subsequent premium payment will be invested as of the end of the valuation period in which it is received in Good Order at the Payment Office in accordance with the allocation you previously designated. The “valuation period” means the period of time from one determination of the value of the amount invested in a variable investment option to the next. Such determinations are made when the net asset values of the portfolios of the Series Fund are calculated, which is as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.)

You may change the way in which subsequent premiums are allocated by giving written notice to a Service Office, by our website, provided you are enrolled to use Prudential Online ^® Account Access, or by telephoning a Service Office, provided the Contract is not in default and you are enrolled to use the Telephone Transfer System. There is no charge for reallocating future premiums among the investment options. If any portion of a premium is allocated to a particular variable investment option, to the fixed rate option or to the Real Property Account, that portion must be at least 10% on the date the allocation takes effect. All percentage allocations must be in whole numbers. For example, 33% can be selected but 33 ? % cannot. Of course, the total allocation to all selected investment options must equal 100%.

When a Contract Becomes Paid-Up

Under the original Contracts, it is possible that favorable investment experience, either alone or with greater than Scheduled Premium payments, will cause the Contract Fund to increase. The Contract Fund may increase to the point where no further premium payments are necessary to provide for the then existing death benefit for the remaining life of the insured. If this should occur, Pruco Life will notify the Contract owner that no further premium payments are needed. We reserve the right to refuse to accept further premiums after the Contract becomes paid-up. The purchase of an additional fixed benefit rider may, in some cases, affect the point at which the Contract becomes paid-up. See RIDERS . The revised Contracts will not become paid-up.

We guarantee that the death benefit of a paid-up Contract then in-force will not be reduced by the investment experience of the investment options in which the Contract participates. The cash surrender value of a paid-up Contract continues to vary daily to reflect investment experience and monthly to reflect continuing mortality charges, but the other monthly deductions (see items 4 and 5 under CHARGES AND EXPENSES ) will not be made. The death benefit of a paid-up Contract on any day (whether the Contract originally was Form A or Form B) will be equal to the amount of paid-up insurance that can be purchased with the Contract Fund on that day, but never less than the guaranteed minimum amount.

Contracts issued on insureds of 14 years of age or less include a special provision under which the face amount of insurance increases automatically to 150% of the initial face amount on the Contract anniversary after the insured reaches the age of 21. If a Contract becomes paid-up prior to that anniversary, Pruco Life will, instead of declaring the Contract to be paid-up, increase the death benefit by the amount necessary to keep the Contract in-force as a premium paying Contract. If this should occur, the increase in the death benefit on the Contract anniversary after the insured reaches the age of 21 will be smaller in dollar amount, than the increase in the face amount of insurance.

Transfers/Restrictions on Transfers

If the Contract is not in default, you may, up to four times each Contract year, transfer amounts from one variable investment option to another variable investment option, to the fixed rate option, or to the Real Property Account, without charge. Additional transfers may be made with our consent. Currently, we will allow you to make additional transfers. For the first 20 transfers in a calendar year, you may transfer amounts by proper written notice to a Service Office, by our website, provided you are enrolled to use Prudential Online ^® Account Access, or by telephone, provided you are enrolled to use the Telephone Transfer System. You will automatically be enrolled to use the Telephone Transfer System unless the Contract is jointly owned or you elect not to have this privilege. Telephone transfers may not be available on Contracts that are assigned, depending on the terms of the assignment. See Assignment .

After you have submitted 20 transfers in a calendar year, we will accept subsequent transfer requests only if they are in a form acceptable to us, bear an original signature in ink, and are sent to us by U.S. regular mail. After you have submitted 20 transfers in a calendar year, a subsequent transfer request by telephone, fax or electronic means will be rejected, even in the event that it is inadvertently processed.

Multiple transfers that occur during the same day, but prior to the end of the valuation period for that day, will be counted as a single transfer.

Currently, certain transfers affected systematically under the dollar cost averaging program do not count towards the limit of four transfers per Contract year or the limit of 20 transfers per calendar year. In the future, we may count such transfers towards the limit.

Transfers among investment options will take effect as of the end of the valuation period in which a transfer request is received in Good Order at a Service Office. The request may be in terms of dollars, such as a request to transfer $5,000 from one investment option to another, or may be in terms of a percentage reallocation among investment options. In the latter case, as with premium reallocations, the percentages must be in whole numbers.

We will use reasonable procedures, such as asking you to provide certain personal information provided on your application for insurance, to confirm that instructions given by telephone are genuine. We will not be held liable for following telephone instructions that we reasonably believe to be genuine. We cannot guarantee that you will be able to get through to complete a telephone transfer during peak periods such as periods of drastic economic or market change.

Only one transfer from the fixed rate option will be permitted during each Contract year and only within 30 days following each Contract anniversary. The maximum amount that may be transferred out of the fixed rate option each year is currently the greater of: (a) 25% of the amount in the fixed rate option; and (b) $2,000. Such transfer requests received prior to the Contract anniversary will take effect on the Contract anniversary. Transfer requests received within the 30-day period beginning on the Contract anniversary will take effect as of the end of the valuation period in which a transfer request is received in Good Order at a Service Office. We may change these limits in the future or waive these restrictions for limited periods of time in a non-discriminatory way, (e.g., when interest rates are declining). Transfers to and from the Real Property Account are subject to restrictions described in the attached prospectus for the Real Property Account.

The Contract was not designed for professional market timing organizations, other organizations, or individuals using programmed, large, or frequent transfers. Large or frequent transfers among variable investment options in response to short-term fluctuations in markets, sometimes called “market timing”, can make it very difficult for Fund advisers/sub-advisers to manage the variable investment options. Large or frequent transfers may cause the Fund to

hold more cash than otherwise necessary, disrupt management strategies, increase transaction costs, or affect performance to the disadvantage of other Contract owners. If we (in our own discretion) believe that a pattern of transfers or a specific transfer request, or group of transfer requests, may have a detrimental effect on the performance of the variable investment options, or we are informed by a Fund (e.g., by the Fund’s adviser/sub-adviser) that the purchase or redemption of shares in the variable investment option must be restricted because the Fund believes the transfer activity to which such purchase or redemption relates would have a detrimental effect on performance of the affected variable investment option, we may modify your right to make transfers by restricting the number, timing, and amount of transfers. We reserve the right to prohibit transfer requests made by an individual acting under a power of attorney on behalf of more than one Contract owner. We will immediately notify you at the time of a transfer request if we exercise this right.

Any restrictions on transfers will be applied in a uniform manner to all persons who own Contracts like this one, and will not be waived, except as described above with respect to transfers from the fixed rate option. However, due to the discretion involved in any decision to exercise our right to restrict transfers, it is possible that some Contract owners may be able to effect transactions that could affect Fund performance to the disadvantage of other Contract owners.

In addition, Contract owners who own variable life insurance or variable annuity Contracts that do not impose the transfer restrictions described above, might make more numerous and frequent transfers than Contract owners who are subject to such limitations. Contract owners who are not subject to the same transfer restrictions may have the same underlying variable investment options available to them, and unfavorable consequences associated with such frequent trading within the underlying variable investment option (e.g., greater portfolio turnover, higher transaction costs, or performance or tax issues) may affect all Contract owners.

The Funds have adopted their own policies and procedures with respect to excessive trading of their respective shares, and we reserve the right to enforce these policies and procedures. The prospectuses for the Funds describe any such policies and procedures, which may be more or less restrictive than the policies and procedures we have adopted. Under SEC rules, we are required to: (1) enter into a written agreement with each portfolio or its principal underwriter that obligates us to provide to the Fund promptly upon request certain information about the trading activity of individual Contract owners, and (2) execute instructions from the Fund to restrict or prohibit further purchases or transfers by specific Contract owners who violate the excessive trading policies established by the Fund. In addition, you should be aware that some Funds may receive “omnibus” purchase and redemption orders from other insurance companies or intermediaries such as retirement plans. The omnibus orders reflect the aggregation and netting of multiple orders from individual owners of variable insurance contracts and/or individual retirement plan participants. The omnibus nature of these orders may limit the Funds in their ability to apply their excessive trading policies and procedures. In addition, the other insurance companies and/or retirement plans may have different policies and procedures or may not have any such policies and procedures because of contractual limitations. For these reasons, we cannot guarantee that the Funds (and thus Contract owners) will not be harmed by transfer activity relating to other insurance companies and/or retirement plans that may invest in the Funds.

A Fund also may assess a short term trading fee in connection with a transfer out of the variable investment option investing in that Fund that occurs within a certain number of days following the date of allocation to the variable investment option. Each Fund determines the amount of the short term trading fee and when the fee is imposed. The fee is retained by or paid to the Fund and is not retained by us. The fee will be deducted from your Contract Value to the extent allowed by law. At present, no Fund has adopted a short-term trading fee.

Although our transfer restrictions are designed to prevent excessive transfers, they are not capable of preventing every potential occurrence of excessive transfer activity.

Dollar Cost Averaging

We offer a feature called Dollar Cost Averaging (“DCA”). Upon your request, premiums will be allocated to the portion of the Money Market subaccount used for this feature (the “DCA account”). Designated dollar amounts will be transferred monthly from the DCA account to other investment options available under the Contract, excluding the Money Market subaccount and the fixed rate option, but including the Real Property Account. Automatic monthly transfers must be at least 3% of the amount allocated to the DCA account (that is, if you designate $5,000, the minimum monthly transfer is $150), with a minimum of $20 transferred into any one investment option. These amounts are subject to change at our discretion. The minimum transfer amount will only be recalculated if the amount designated for transfer is increased.

When you establish DCA at issue, you must allocate to the DCA account the greater of $2,000 or 10% of the initial premium payment. When you establish DCA after issue, you must allocate to the DCA account at least $2,000. These minimums are subject to change at our discretion. After DCA has been established and as long as the DCA account has a positive balance, you may allocate or transfer amounts to the DCA account, generally subject to the limitations

on premium payments and transfers. In addition, if you pay premiums on an annual or semi-annual basis, and you have already established DCA, your premium allocation instructions may include an allocation of all or a portion of all your premium payments to the DCA account. Each automatic monthly transfer will take effect as of the end of the valuation period on the Monthly Date, provided the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open on that date. If the NYSE is not open on the Monthly Date, the transfer will take effect as of the end of the valuation period on the next day that the NYSE is open. If the Monthly Date does not occur in a particular month (e.g., February 30), the transfer will take effect as of the end of the valuation period on the last day of the month that the NYSE is open. Automatic monthly transfers will continue until the balance in the DCA account reaches zero, or until the Contract owner gives notification of a change in allocation or cancellation of the feature. If you have an outstanding premium allocation to the DCA account, but your DCA option has previously been canceled, premiums allocated to the DCA account will be allocated to the Money Market subaccount. Currently there is no charge for using the DCA feature.

DEATH BENEFITS

Contract Date

There is no insurance under this Contract until the minimum initial premium is paid. If a medical examination is required, the Contract date will ordinarily be the date the examination is completed. Under certain circumstances, we may allow the Contract to be backdated up to six months for the purpose of lowering the insured's issue age, but only to a date not earlier than six months prior to the application date. This may be advantageous for some Contract owners as a lower issue age may result in lower current charges.

When Proceeds Are Paid

Generally, we will pay any death benefit, cash surrender value, loan proceeds or partial withdrawal within seven days after all the documents required for such a payment are received at the Payment Office. Other than the death benefit, which is determined as of the date of death, the amount will be determined as of the end of the valuation period in which the necessary documents are received at a Service Office. However, we may delay payment of proceeds from the variable investment option[s] and the variable portion of the death benefit due under the Contract if the disposal or valuation of the Account's assets is not reasonably practicable because the New York Stock Exchange is closed for other than a regular holiday or weekend, trading is restricted by the SEC, or the SEC declares that an emergency exists.

We have the right to delay payment of the cash surrender value attributable to: (1) the fixed rate option; and (2) Contracts in-force as extended term insurance, for up to six months (or a shorter period if required by applicable law). We will pay interest of at least 3% per year if such a payment is delayed for more than 30 days (or a shorter period if required by applicable law).

Death Claim Settlement Options

The beneficiary may choose to receive death claim proceeds by any of the settlement options described in the Contract or by payment of a lump sum amount. In addition to the settlement options described in your Contract, the beneficiary may choose the payment of death claim proceeds, by way of Prudential's retained asset settlement option (the "Alliance Account"). Upon verification of a death claim, Prudential will provide a kit to the beneficiary, which includes: (1) an account certificate describing the death claim proceeds, the current interest rate, and the terms of the Alliance Account; (2) a guide that explains how the Alliance Account works; and (3) checks and a checkbook, that the beneficiary can use to access the available amount of death claim proceeds. Any Pruco Life representative authorized to sell this Contract can explain this option upon request.

Types of Death Benefit

You may have selected from two types of death benefit at issue. A Contract with a Form A death benefit has a death benefit, which will generally equal the initial face amount. Favorable investment results and additional premium payments will generally increase the cash surrender value and decrease the net amount at risk and result in lower charges. This type of death benefit does not vary with the investment performance of the investment options you selected, unless the Contract becomes paid-up or, under a revised version of the Contract, except when the premiums you pay or favorable investment performance causes the Contract Fund to grow to the point where we may increase the death benefit to ensure that the Contract will satisfy the Internal Revenue Code’s definition of life insurance. The Scheduled Premium shown in the Contract will be the same for a given insured, regardless of what Contract Form you chose. See How a Contract's Cash Surrender Value Will Vary .

A Contract with a Form B death benefit has a death benefit, which will generally equal the face amount plus, if any, excess Contract Fund over the Tabular Contract Fund Value. Favorable investment performance and additional premium payments will generally increase your Contract's death benefit and cash surrender value. However, the increase in the cash surrender value for Form B Contract may be less than the increase in cash surrender value for a Form A Contract because a Form B Contract has a greater cost of insurance charge due to a greater net amount at risk. As long as the Contract is not in default, there have been no withdrawals, and there is no Contract debt, the death benefit may not fall below the face amount stated in the Contract, plus the amount, if any, by which the Contract Fund exceeds the Tabular Contract Fund Value.

Both Form A and Form B Contracts covering insureds of 14 years of age or less contain a special provision providing that the face amount of insurance will automatically be increased, on the Contract anniversary after the insured's 21st birthday, to 150% of the initial face amount, so long as the Contract is not then in default. This new face amount becomes the new guaranteed minimum death benefit. The death benefit will also usually increase, at the same time, by the same dollar amount. In certain circumstances, however, it may increase by a smaller amount. See When a Contract Becomes Paid-Up . This increase in death benefit will also generally increase the net amount at risk under the Contract, thus increasing the mortality charge deducted each month from amounts invested under the Contract. See CHARGES AND EXPENSES . The automatic increase in the face amount of insurance may affect the level of future premium payments you can make without causing the Contract to be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Contract owners of a Form A Contract should note that any withdrawal may result in a reduction of the face amount and the deduction of any applicable surrender charges. We will not allow you to make a withdrawal that will decrease the face amount below the minimum face amount. For Form B Contracts, withdrawals will not change the face amount, will not incur a surrender charge for a withdrawal, and are not restricted if a minimum size Contract was purchased. See Withdrawals .

Under the original versions of these Contracts, there are other distinctions between the Contract Forms. Contract Form A will become paid-up more rapidly than a comparable Form B Contract. But Contract owners of Form A Contracts should be aware that since premium payments and favorable investment experience do not increase the death benefit, unless the Contract has become paid-up, the beneficiary will not benefit from the possibility that the Contract will have a large cash surrender value at the time of the insured's death.

Under a revised version of the Contract that was made available beginning in September 1986, in jurisdictions where it is approved, the Contract will never become paid-up. Instead, the death benefit under these revised Contracts is always at least as great as the Contract Fund divided by the net single premium. Thus, instead of becoming paid-up, we will increase the Contract's death benefit so it will always be large enough to meet the Internal Revenue Code's definition of life insurance. Whenever the death benefit is determined in this way, we reserve the right to refuse to accept further premium payments, although in practice the payment of at least Scheduled Premiums will be allowed.

How a Contract's Death Benefit Will Vary

There are two forms of the Contract, Form A and Form B. Moreover, in September 1986 we began issuing revised versions of both Form A and Form B Contracts. The primary difference between the original Contract and the revised Contract is that the original Contract may become paid-up, while the death benefit under the revised Contract operates differently and will not become paid-up.

1. Original Contracts:

Each Contract contains a table that sets forth the Tabular Contract Fund Value as of the end of each of the first 20 years of the Contract. Tabular Contract Fund Values between Contract anniversaries are determined by interpolation.

Thus, under a Form B Contract with no Contract debt, the death benefit will equal the face amount if the Contract Fund equals the Tabular Contract Fund Value. If, due to investment results greater than a net return of 4%, or to greater than Scheduled Premiums, or to lesser than maximum charges, the Contract Fund value is a given amount greater than the Tabular Contract Fund Value, the death benefit will be the face amount plus that excess amount. If, due to investment results less favorable than a net return of 4%, the Contract Fund value is less than the Tabular Contract Fund Value, and the Contract remains in-force because Scheduled Premiums have been paid, the death benefit will not fall below the initial face amount stated in the Contract. The death benefit will also reflect a deduction for the amount of any Contract debt. See Loans . Any unfavorable investment experience must subsequently be offset before favorable investment results or greater than Scheduled Premiums will increase the death benefit.

2. Revised Contracts:

Under the revised Contracts issued since September 1986 in approved jurisdictions, the death benefit will be calculated as follows:

Generally, whenever the death benefit is determined in this way, we will continue to accept the average of all premiums paid over the last five years; however, we reserve the right to refuse to accept any further premium payments.

You may increase or decrease the face amount of your Contract, subject to certain conditions, regardless of the form type or the issue date of your Contract. See Increases in the Face Amount and Decreases in the Face Amount .

Increases in the Face Amount

After your first Contract anniversary, you may increase your amount of insurance by increasing the face amount of the Contract (which is also the guaranteed minimum death benefit). The increase will be subject to state approval and the underwriting requirements we determine.

The following conditions must be met:

If we approve the change, we will send you new Contract Data pages showing the amount and effective date of the change and the recomputed charges, values and limitations. If the insured is not living on the effective date, the change will not take effect. Currently, no transaction charge is being made in connection with an increase in the face amount. However, we reserve the right to deny the increase if we change any of the bases on which benefits and charges are calculated for newly issued Contracts between the Contract Date and the date of your requested increase.

An increase in the face amount resulting in a total face amount under the Contract of at least $100,000 may, subject to strict underwriting requirements, render the Contract eligible for a Select Rating for a nonsmoker, which provides lower current cost of insurance rates.

Upon an increase in the face amount, we will recompute the Contract's Scheduled Premiums, deferred sales and transaction charges, tabular values, and monthly deductions from the Contract Fund. Requests for increases received within six months after the most recent Contract anniversary will be effective on your choice of the prior or the next Contract anniversary and is limited only by applicable state law. Requests for increases received more than six months after the most recent Contract anniversary will be effective on the following anniversary. A payment will be required on the date of increase, which will depend, in part, on the Contract anniversary you select for the recomputation. We will tell you the amount of the required payment. You should also note that an increase in the face amount may cause the Contract to be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits . Therefore, before increasing the face amount, you should consult your own tax adviser and Pruco Life representative.

If the increase is approved, the new insurance will take effect once we receive the proper forms, any medical evidence necessary to underwrite the additional insurance, and any additional premium amount needed for the increase.

We will assess, upon lapse or surrender, following an increase in the face amount, the sum of (a) the deferred sales and transaction charges that would have been assessed if the initial base Contract had not been amended and had lapsed or been surrendered; and (b) the deferred sales and transaction charges that would have been assessed if the increase in death benefit had been achieved by the issuance of a new Contract, and that Contract had lapsed or been surrendered. All premiums paid after the increase will, for purposes of determining the deferred sales charge applicable in the event of surrender or lapse, be deemed to have been made partially under the base Contract, and partially in payment of the increase, in the same proportion as that of the original Scheduled Premium and the increase in Scheduled Premiums. An increase in the face amount triggers new contingent deferred sales and transaction charges, therefore, you should not elect to increase the face amount of your Contract if you are contemplating a total or partial surrender or a decrease in the face amount of insurance.

An increase in the face amount will be treated comparably to the issuance of a new Contract for purposes of the non-guaranteed waiver of the 5% front-end sales load. See CHARGES AND EXPENSES . Thus, premiums paid after the increase will, for purposes of determining whether the 5% front-end sales load will be waived, be allocated to the base Contract and to the increase based on the proportional premium allocation rule as described. The waiver will apply to the premiums paid after the increase only after the premiums so allocated exceed five scheduled annual premiums for the increase. Thus, a Contract owner considering an increase in the face amount should be aware that such an increase will incur charges comparable to the purchase of a new Contract.

If you elect to increase the face amount of your Contract, you will receive a “free-look” right and a right to convert to a fixed benefit Contract, which applies only to the increase in the face amount, not the entire Contract. The “free-look” right is comparable to the right afforded to the purchaser of a new Contract. You may exercise the “free-look” right within 45 days after execution of the application for the increase or within 10 days after you receive your Contract with the increase, whichever is later. Some states allow a longer period of time during which a Contract may be returned for a refund. See Canceling the Contract . Charges deducted after the increase will be recomputed as though no increase had been applied.

You may transfer the total amount attributable to the increase in the face amount from the variable investment options or the Real Property Account to the fixed rate option at any time within two years after an increase in the face amount.

The right to convert the increase in the face amount to a fixed benefit policy will exist for 24 months after the increase is issued and the form of exchange right will be the same as that available under the base Contract purchased. There may be a cash payment required upon the exchange.

Decreases in the Face Amount

You have the option of decreasing the face amount of insurance of the Contract without withdrawing any cash surrender value. If a change in circumstances causes you to determine that your amount of insurance is greater than needed, a decrease will reduce your insurance protection and the monthly deductions for the cost of insurance.

The following conditions must be met:

If we approve the decrease, we will send you new Contract Data pages showing the new face amount, tabular values, scheduled premiums, charges, values, and limitations. A Contract is no longer eligible for the Select Rating if the face amount is reduced below $100,000. Currently, a $15 transaction fee is deducted from the Contract Fund in connection with a decrease in the face amount of insurance. We will also reduce your Contract Fund value by deducting a proportionate part of the contingent deferred sales and surrender charges, if any.

We may decline a reduction if we determine it would cause the Contract to fail to qualify as "life insurance" for purposes of section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

It is important to note, however, that if the face amount is decreased there is a possibility that the Contract will be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits . You should consult with your tax adviser and your Pruco Life representative before requesting any decrease in the face amount.

CONTRACT VALUES

Surrender of a Contract

You may surrender your Contract, in whole or in part, for its cash surrender value while the insured is living. A partial surrender involves splitting the Contract into two Contracts. One Contract is surrendered for its cash surrender value; the other is continued in-force on the same terms as the original Contract except that premiums and cash surrender values will be based on the new face amount. You will be given a new Contract document. The cash surrender value and the guaranteed minimum death benefit of the new Contract will be proportionately reduced. The reduction is based upon the face amount of insurance. The face amount of insurance must be at least equal to the minimum face amount applicable to the insured's Contract. See REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF A CONTRACT . For reduced paid-up Contracts, both the death benefit and the guaranteed minimum death benefit will be reduced.

To surrender your Contract, we may require you to deliver or mail the following items, in Good Order, to a Service Office: the Contract, a signed request for surrender, and any tax withholding information required under federal or state law. Generally, we will pay your Contract’s cash surrender value within seven days after all the documents required for such a payment are received in Good Order at a Service Office. Surrender of all or part of a Contract may have tax consequences. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Additional requirements exist if you are exchanging your Contract for a new one at another insurance company. We specifically require a properly signed assignment to change ownership of your Contract to the new insurer and a request for surrender, signed by an authorized officer of the new insurer. The new insurer should submit these documents directly to Prudential by sending them in Good Order to our Customer Value Service Center in Minneapolis. Generally, we will pay your Contract’s cash surrender value to the new insurer within seven days after all the documents required for such a payment are received in Good Order at our Customer Value Service Center.

How a Contract’s Cash Surrender Value Will Vary

The cash surrender value (taking into account the deferred sales and transaction charges, if any) will be determined as of the end of the valuation period in which a surrender request is received in Good Order at the Customer Value Service Center. The Contract’s cash surrender value on any date will be the Contract Fund less any deferred sales and transaction charges, if any, and less any Contract debt. The Contract Fund value changes daily, reflecting:

The Contract Fund value also changes to reflect the receipt of premium payments after any charges are deducted and the monthly deductions described under CHARGES AND EXPENSES . Upon request, we will tell you the cash surrender value of your Contract. It is possible that the cash surrender value of a Contract could decline to zero because of unfavorable investment performance or outstanding Contract debt, even if you continue to pay Scheduled Premiums when due.

Loans

You may borrow up to the “loan value” of your Contract, using the Contract as the only security for the loan. The loan value is equal to (1) 90% of an amount equal to the portion of the cash value attributable to the variable investment options; plus (2) 100% of an amount equal to the portion of the cash value attributable to the fixed rate option and to prior loan[s] supported by the fixed rate option, minus the portion of any charges attributable to the fixed rate option. The minimum loan amount you may borrow at any one time is generally $500, unless the proceeds are used to pay premiums on your Contract. The minimum loan amount may be lower in some states.

If you request a loan you may choose one of two interest rates. You may elect to have interest charges accrued daily at a fixed effective annual rate of 5.5%. Alternatively, you may elect a variable interest rate that changes from time to time. You may switch from the fixed to variable interest loan provision, or vice-versa, with our consent.

If you elect the variable loan interest rate provision, interest charged on any loan will accrue daily at an annual rate we determine at the start of each Contract year (instead of at the fixed 5.5% rate). This interest rate will not exceed the greatest of: (1) the “Published Monthly Average” for the calendar month ending two months before the calendar month of the Contract anniversary; (2) 5%; or (3) the rate permitted by law in the state of issue of the Contract. The “Published Monthly Average” means Moody's Corporate Bond Yield Average - Monthly Average Corporate, as published by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to that service, or if that average is no longer published, a substantially similar average established by the insurance regulator where the Contract is issued. For example, the Published Monthly Average in 2008 ranged from 5.35% to 5.86%.

Interest payments on any loan are due at the end of each Contract year. If interest is not paid when due, it is added to the principal amount of the loan. The Contract debt is the principal amount of all outstanding loans plus any interest accrued to date. If at any time your Contract debt exceeds the Contract fund, we will notify you of its intent to terminate the Contract in 61 days, within which time you may repay all or enough of the loan to keep the Contract in-force. If the policy is terminated for excess Contract debt, it cannot be reinstated.

When a loan is made, an amount equal to the loan proceeds is transferred out of the applicable investment options. The reduction is generally made in the same proportions as the value that each investment option bears to the total value of the Contract.

A loan will not affect the amount of the premiums due. If the death benefit becomes payable while a loan is outstanding, or should the Contract be surrendered, any Contract debt will be deducted from the death benefit or the cash surrender value otherwise payable.

A loan will have a permanent effect on a Contract's cash surrender value and may have a permanent effect on the death benefit, even if the loan is fully repaid, because the investment results of the selected investment options will apply only to the amount remaining in those investment options. The longer the loan is outstanding, the greater the effect is likely to be. The effect could be favorable or unfavorable. If investment results are greater than the rate being credited upon the amount of the loan balance while the loan is outstanding, the Contract values will not increase as rapidly as they would have if no loan had been made. If investment results are below that rate, Contract values will be higher than they would have been had no loan been made.

Loan repayments are applied to reduce the total outstanding Contract debt, which is equal to the principal plus accrued interest. Interest accrues daily on the total outstanding Contract debt, and making a loan repayment will reduce the amount of interest accruing. If your repayment is received within 21 days of the Contract anniversary, it will be applied first to the accrued interest, then to capitalized interest, with any remainder applied to the original loan principal. Most repayments received prior to this time period will be applied first to capitalized interest, then to accrued interest, then to the original loan principal.

The amount of a loan repayment that is applied to the principal loan amount is first allocated based on the same proportion in which it was taken from the fixed rate option and variable investment options, including the Real Property Account. The variable portion is then applied proportionately to the applicable variable investment options, based on the balances in those options, at the time of the loan repayment.

If you fail to keep the Contract in-force, the amount of unpaid Contract debt will be treated as a distribution and will be immediately taxable to the extent of gain in the Contract. Reinstatement of the Contract after lapse will not eliminate the taxable income, which we are required to report to the Internal Revenue Service. See LAPSE AND REINSTATEMENT and Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits - Pre-Death Distributions.

Loans you take against the Contract are ordinarily treated as debt and are not considered distributions subject to tax. However, you should know that the Internal Revenue Service may take the position that the variable rate loan should be treated as a distribution for tax purposes because of the relatively low differential between the loan interest rate and the Contract’s crediting rate. Distributions are subject to income tax. Were the Internal Revenue Service to take this position, we would take reasonable steps to attempt to avoid this result, including modifying the Contract’s loan provisions, but cannot guarantee that such efforts would be successful.

Loans from Modified Endowment Contracts may be treated for tax purposes as distributions of income. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Withdrawals

You may withdraw a portion of the Contract's cash surrender value without surrendering the Contract, subject to the following restrictions:

There is a transaction fee for each withdrawal equal to the lesser of: (a) $15 and; (b) 2% of the withdrawal amount. An amount withdrawn may not be repaid except as a scheduled or unscheduled premium subject to the applicable charges. Upon request, we will tell you how much you may withdraw.

Under a Form A Contract, the face amount of insurance is reduced by no more than the withdrawal amount. We will not permit a withdrawal if it will result in a new face amount of less than the minimum face amount shown under List of Contract Minimums in your Contract Data pages. A withdrawal under a Form A Contract may also result in a reduction in the Contract Fund by the withdrawal amount and by a proportionate amount of any applicable withdrawal charges, based upon the percentage reduction in the face amount. Form A Contract owners who make a withdrawal will be sent replacement Contract pages showing the new face amount, Scheduled Premiums, maximum surrender charges, Tabular values, and monthly deductions.

It is important to note that if the face amount is decreased, there is a possibility that the Contract might be classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. Before making any withdrawal that causes a decrease in the face amount, you should consult with your tax adviser and your Pruco Life representative. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Under a Form B Contract, the cash surrender value and the Contract Fund value are reduced by the amount of the withdrawal, and the death benefit is reduced accordingly. Neither the face amount of insurance nor the amount of Scheduled Premiums will change due to a withdrawal of excess cash surrender value under a Form B Contract. No surrender charges will be assessed for a withdrawal under a Form B Contract. Withdrawal of any portion of the cash surrender value increases the risk that the Contract Fund may be insufficient to provide Contract benefits. If such a withdrawal is followed by unfavorable investment experience, the Contract may go into default, even if Scheduled

Premiums continue to be paid when due. Withdrawal of part of the cash surrender value may have tax consequences. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

Generally, we will pay any withdrawal amount within seven days after all the documents required for such a payment are received in Good Order at a Service Office. See When Proceeds Are Paid .

A Contract returned during the “free-look” period shall be deemed void from the beginning, and not considered a surrender or withdrawal.

LAPSE AND REINSTATEMENT

If Scheduled Premiums are paid on or before each due date or received within 61 days after the Scheduled Premiums are due, (or missed premiums are paid later with interest) and there are no withdrawals, a Contract will remain in-force even if the investment results of that Contract's variable investment option[s] have been so unfavorable that the Contract Fund has decreased to zero or less.

In addition, even if a Scheduled Premium is not paid, the Contract will remain in-force as long as the Contract Fund on any Monthly date is equal to or greater than the Tabular Contract Fund Value on the next Monthly date. (A Table of Tabular Contract Fund Values is included in the Contract; the values increase with each year the Contract remains in-force.) This could occur because of such factors as favorable investment experience, deduction of less than the maximum permissible charges, or the previous payment of greater than Scheduled Premiums.

However, if a Scheduled Premium is not paid, and the Contract Fund is insufficient to keep the Contract in-force, the Contract will go into default. Should this happen, we will send the Contract owner a notice of default setting forth the payment necessary to keep the Contract in-force on a premium paying basis. This payment must be received at the Payment Office within the 61 day grace period after the notice of default is mailed or the Contract will lapse. A Contract that lapses with an outstanding Contract loan may have tax consequences. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

A Contract that has lapsed may be reinstated within three years after the date of default unless the Contract has been surrendered for its cash surrender value. To reinstate a lapsed Contract, we require renewed evidence of insurability, and submission of certain payments due under the Contract.

If a Contract does lapse, it may still provide some benefits. Those benefits are described under Options on Lapse , below.

Options on Lapse

If your Contract does lapse, it will still provide some benefits. You can receive the cash surrender value by making a request of Pruco Life prior to the end of the 61 day grace period. You may also choose one of the two options described below for which no further premiums are payable.

Contracts issued on the lives of certain insureds in high risk rating classes and Contracts issued in connection with tax qualified pension plans will include a statement that extended term insurance will not be provided. In those cases, variable reduced paid-up insurance will be the automatic benefit provided on lapse.

Loans . Acquisition of reduced paid-up insurance may result in your Contract becoming a Modified Endowment Contract. See Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits .

As explained above, variable reduced paid-up insurance is the automatic benefit on lapse for Contracts issued on certain insureds. Owners of other Contracts who want variable reduced paid-up insurance must ask for it in writing, in a form that meets Pruco Life's needs, within three months of the date of default; it will be available to such Contract owners only if the initial amount of variable reduced paid-up insurance would be at least $5,000. This minimum is not applicable to Contracts for which variable reduced paid-up insurance is the automatic benefit upon lapse.

TAXES

Tax Treatment of Contract Benefits

This summary provides general information on the federal income tax treatment of the Contract. It is not a complete statement of what the federal income taxes will be in all circumstances. It is based on current law and interpretations, which may change. It does not cover state taxes or other taxes. It is not intended as tax advice. You should consult your own tax adviser for complete information and advice.

Treatment as Life Insurance. The Contract must meet certain requirements to qualify as life insurance for tax purposes. These requirements include certain definitional tests and rules for diversification of the Contract’s investments. For further information on the diversification requirements, see Taxation of the Fund in the statement of additional information for the Series Fund.

We believe we have taken adequate steps to insure that the Contract qualifies as life insurance for tax purposes. Generally speaking, this means that:

Although we believe that the Contract should qualify as life insurance for tax purposes, there are some uncertainties, particularly because the Secretary of Treasury has not yet issued permanent regulations that bear on this question. Accordingly, we reserve the right to make changes -- which will be applied uniformly to all Contract owners after advance written notice -- that we deem necessary to insure that the Contract will qualify as life insurance.

Pre-Death Distributions. The tax treatment of any distribution you receive before the insured’s death depends on whether the Contract is classified as a Modified Endowment Contract. Contracts Not Classified as Modified Endowment Contracts

Modified Endowment Contracts

Investor Control . Treasury Department regulations do not provide specific guidance concerning the extent to which you may direct your investment in the particular variable investment options without causing you, instead of Pruco Life, to be considered the owner of the underlying assets. Because of this uncertainty, we reserve the right to make such changes as we deem necessary to assure that the Contract qualifies as life insurance for tax purposes. Any such changes will apply uniformly to affected Contract owners and will be made with such notice to affected Contract owners as is feasible under the circumstances.

Withholding. You must affirmatively elect that no taxes be withheld from a pre-death distribution. Otherwise, the taxable portion of any amounts you receive will be subject to withholding. You are not permitted to elect out of withholding if you do not provide a social security number or other taxpayer identification number. You may be subject to penalties under the estimated tax payment rules if your withholding and estimated tax payments are insufficient to cover the tax due.

Other Tax Considerations. If you transfer or assign the Contract to someone else, there may be gift, estate and/or income tax consequences. If you transfer the Contract to a person two or more generations younger than you (or designate such a younger person as a beneficiary), there may be Generation Skipping Transfer tax consequences. Deductions for interest paid or accrued on Contract debt or on other loans that are incurred or continued to purchase or carry the Contract may be denied. Your individual situation or that of your beneficiary will determine the federal estate taxes and the state and local estate, inheritance and other taxes due if you or the insured dies.

Business-Owned Life Insurance. If a business, rather than an individual, is the owner of the Contract, there are some additional rules. Business Contract owners generally cannot deduct premium payments. Business Contract owners generally cannot take tax deductions for interest on Contract debt paid or accrued after October 13, 1995. An exception permits the deduction of interest on policy loans on Contracts for up to 20 key persons. The interest deduction for Contract debt on these loans is limited to a prescribed interest rate and a maximum aggregate loan amount of $50,000 per key insured person. The corporate alternative minimum tax also applies to business-owned life insurance. This is an indirect tax on additions to the Contract Fund or death benefits received under business-owned life insurance policies.

For business-owned life insurance coverage issued after August 17, 2006, death benefits will generally be taxable as ordinary income to the extent it exceeds cost basis. Life insurance death benefits will continue to be generally income tax free if, prior to policy issuance, the employer provided a prescribed notice to the proposed insured/employee, obtained the employee's consent to the life insurance, and one of the following requirements is met: (a) the insured was an employee at any time during the 12-month period prior to his or her death; (b) the insured was a director or highly compensated employee or individual (as defined in the Code) at the time the policy was issued; or (c) the death benefits are paid to the insured's heirs or his or her designated beneficiaries (other than the employer), either directly as a death benefit or received from the purchase of an equity (or capital or profits) interest in the applicable

policyholder. Annual reporting and record keeping requirements will apply to employers maintaining such business-owned life insurance.

Tax-Qualified Pension Plans

You may have acquired the Contract to fund a pension plan that qualifies for tax favored treatment under the Internal Revenue Code. We issued such Contracts with a minimum face amount of $10,000, and with increases and decreases in the face amount in minimum increments of $10,000. The monthly charge for anticipated mortality costs and the scheduled premiums is the same for male and female insureds of a particular age and underwriting classification, as required for insurance and annuity contracts sold to tax-qualified pension plans. We provided you with illustrations showing premiums and charges if you wished to fund a tax-qualified pension plan. Only certain riders are available for a Contract issued in connection with a tax-qualified pension plan. Variable reduced paid-up insurance and payment of the cash surrender value are the only options on lapse available for Contracts issued in connection with a tax-qualified pension plan. See LAPSE AND REINSTATEMENT . Finally, a Contract issued in connection with a tax-qualified pension plan may not invest in the Real Property Account.

You should consult a qualified tax advisor before purchasing a Contract in connection with a tax-qualified pension plan to confirm, among other things, the suitability of the Contract for your particular plan.

DISTRIBUTION AND COMPENSATION

Pruco Securities, LLC (“Prusec”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Prudential Financial, acts as the principal underwriter of the Contract. Prusec, organized on September 22, 2003 under New Jersey law, is registered as a broker and dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is a registered member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). (Prusec is a successor company to Pruco Securities Corporation, established on February 22, 1971.) Prusec’s principal business address is 751 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102-3777. Prusec serves as principal underwriter of the variable insurance Contracts issued by Pruco Life. The Contract was sold by registered representatives of Prusec who are also our appointed insurance agents under state insurance law. The Contract may have also been sold through other broker-dealers authorized by Prusec and applicable law to do so. Prusec received gross distribution revenue for its variable life insurance products of $80,907,743 in 2008, $90,865,268 in 2007, and $91,615,140 in 2006. Prusec passes through the gross distribution revenue it receives to broker-dealers for their sales and does not retain any portion of it in return for its services as distributor for the policies. However, Prusec does retain a portion of compensation it receives with respect to sales by its representatives . Prusec retained compensation of $15,852,244 in 2008, $16,112,532 in 2007, and $11,528,129 in 2006. Prusec offers the Contract on a continuous basis.

On July 1, 2003, Prudential Financial combined its retail securities brokerage and clearing operations with those of Wachovia Corporation (“Wachovia”) and formed Wachovia Securities Financial Holdings, LLC (“Wachovia Securities”), a joint venture headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Currently, Prudential Financial has a minority ownership interest in the joint venture.

Wachovia Securities is a national retail brokerage organization providing securities brokerage and financial advisory services to individuals and businesses. Wachovia and Wachovia Securities are key distribution partners for certain products of Prudential Financial affiliates, including life insurance, mutual funds, and individual annuities that are distributed through their financial advisors, bank channel and independent channel. In addition, Prudential Financial is a service provider to the managed account platform and certain wrap-fee programs offered by Wachovia Securities.

Wachovia and Wells Fargo & Company (“Wells Fargo”) announced that they entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, pursuant to which Wachovia would be merged into Wells Fargo, which would succeed to Wachovia’s rights and obligations under the joint venture arrangements. As reported by Wells Fargo, this merger was completed on December 31, 2008.

Compensation (commissions, overrides, and any expense reimbursement allowance) is paid to broker-dealers that are registered under the Exchange Act and/or entities that are exempt from such registration (“firms”) according to one or more schedules. The individual representative will receive all or a portion of the compensation, depending on the practice of the firm. Compensation is based on the scheduled premium. The scheduled Premium will vary by issue age, sex, smoker/non smoker, substandard rating class, and any riders selected by the Contract owner.

Broker-dealers will receive compensation of up to 99% of premiums received in the first 12 months following the Contract Date on total premiums received since issue up to the first Scheduled Premium, and up to 8% on premiums received up to the next nine Scheduled Premiums. Moreover, broker-dealers will receive compensation of up to 6% on premiums received to the extent that premiums exceed the first 10 Scheduled Premiums in years two through five, up to 4.5% on premiums received in years six through 10, and up to 3% beyond 10 years.

If the face amount is increased, broker-dealers will receive compensation of up to 99% on premiums received up to the first Scheduled Premium for the increase received in the first 12 months following the effective date of the increase and up to 8% of premiums received up to the next nine Scheduled Premiums for the increase. Moreover, broker-dealers will receive compensation of up to 6% on premiums received following the effective date of the increase to the extent that premiums exceed the first 10 Scheduled Premiums in years two through five, up to 4.5% on premiums received in years six through 10, and up to 3% beyond 10 years.

Prusec registered representatives who sell the Contract are also our life insurance agents, and may be eligible for various cash bonuses and insurance benefits and non-cash compensation programs that we or our affiliates offer such as conferences, trips, prizes and awards, subject to applicable regulatory requirements. In some circumstances and to the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, we may also reimburse certain sales and marketing expenses.

In addition, in an effort to promote the sale of our variable products (which may include the placement of our Contracts on a preferred or recommended company or product list and/or access to a broker-dealer’s registered representatives), we or Prusec may enter into compensation arrangements with certain broker-dealer firms authorized by Prusec to sell the Contract, or branches of such firms, with respect to certain or all registered representatives of such firms under which such firms may receive separate compensation or reimbursement for, among other things, training of sales personnel, marketing and/or administrative and/or other services they provide to us or our affiliates.

To the extent permitted by applicable rules, laws, and regulations, Prusec may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments in the form of cash or non-cash compensation. These arrangements may not be offered to all firms, and the terms of such arrangements may differ between firms. You should note that firms and individual registered representatives and branch managers within some firms participating in one of these compensation arrangements might receive greater compensation for selling the Contract than for selling a different Contract that is not eligible for these compensation arrangements.

While compensation is generally taken into account as an expense in considering the charges applicable to a variable life insurance product, any such compensation will be paid by us, and will not result in any additional charge to you or to the separate account. Y our registered representative can provide you with more information about the compensation arrangements that apply upon the sale of the Contract.

In addition, we or our affiliates may provide such compensation, payments and/or incentives to firms arising out of the marketing, sale and/or servicing of variable annuities or life insurance offered by different Prudential business units.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Pruco Life is subject to legal and regulatory actions in the ordinary course of its businesses, including class action lawsuits. Legal and regulatory actions may include proceedings relating to aspects of the businesses and operations that are specific to Pruco Life and that are typical of the businesses in which Pruco Life operates. Class action and individual lawsuits may involve a variety of issues and/or allegations, which include sales practices, underwriting practices, claims payment and procedures, premium charges, policy servicing and breach of fiduciary duties to customers. Pruco Life may also be subject to litigation arising out of its general business activities, such as its investments and third party contracts. In certain of these matters, plaintiffs may seek large and/or indeterminate amounts, including punitive or exemplary damages.

Pruco Life's litigation and regulatory matters are subject to many uncertainties, and given their complexity and scope, the outcome cannot be predicted. It is possible that results of operations or cash flow in a particular quarterly or annual period could be materially affected by an ultimate unfavorable resolution of pending litigation and regulatory matters depending, in part, upon the results of operations or cash flow for such period. In light of the unpredictability of Pruco Life's litigation and regulatory matters, it is also possible that in certain cases an ultimate unfavorable resolution of one or more pending litigation or regulatory matters could have a material adverse effect on Pruco Life's financial position. Management believes, however, that, based on information currently known to it, the ultimate outcome of all pending litigation and regulatory matters, after consideration of applicable reserves and rights to indemnification, is not likely to have a material adverse effect on Pruco Life's financial position.

On April 17, 2009, AST Investment Services, Inc. ("ASISI") one of the Investment Managers of Advanced Series Trust, settled separate administrative proceedings brought by the SEC and the New York Attorney General's Office ("NYAG") regarding market timing activities of ASISI related to certain variable annuities and Advanced Series Trust. The settlements relate to conduct that generally occurred between January 1998 and September 2003. Prudential Financial, Inc. ("Prudential Financial") acquired ASISI, formerly named American Skandia Investment Services, Inc., from Skandia Insurance Company Ltd. (publ) in May 2003. Subsequent to the acquisition, Prudential Financial implemented controls, procedures and measures designed to protect customers from the types of activities involved in these settlements. Under the terms of the settlements, ASISI is paying a total of $34 million in disgorgement and an additional $34 million as a civil money penalty, and ASISI has undertaken that by the end of 2009 it will undergo a compliance review by an independent third party, who shall issue a report of its findings and recommendations to ASISI's Board of Directors, the Audit Committee of Advanced Series Trust and the Staff of the SEC. Neither Pruco Life nor Prudential Investments LLC, the other Investment Manager of Advanced Series Trust, is involved in the settlements.