Kansas Real Estate Pass Rate 2026: 64.6% State Portion

In July 2026, Kansas real estate salesperson candidates passed the Kansas state portion of the licensing exam 64.6% of the time and the national portion 57.0% of the time. Neither percentage appears anywhere on the Kansas Real Estate Commission's website, because KREC does not publish a computed pass rate. It publishes something rarer: the raw Pearson VUE results file for the prior month, sitting by sitting. We pulled the file on August 16, 2026 — the current edition is dated August 5, 2026 and covers July 1–31, 2026 — and counted it ourselves. State portion: 126 passes out of 195 delivered sittings, which is 64.6%. National portion: 85 passes out of 149 delivered sittings, which is 57.0%. Both figures count every delivered sitting in the month, first attempts and retakes together. Neither is a first-time pass rate, and the two are not interchangeable.

Every Kansas exam figure in the July 2026 file

This is the complete set of results the commission published for that month. The pass-rate column is our arithmetic on the commission's own counts, not a figure KREC states.

License & portion	Attempt basis	Sittings	Passed	Pass rate	Period
Salesperson — Kansas state portion	All delivered sittings (first + repeat)	195	126	64.6%	Jul 1–31, 2026
Salesperson — national/general portion	All delivered sittings (first + repeat)	149	85	57.0%	Jul 1–31, 2026
Broker — Kansas state portion	All delivered sittings (first + repeat)	15	10	66.7%	Jul 1–31, 2026
Broker — national/general portion	All delivered sittings (first + repeat)	10	7	70.0%	Jul 1–31, 2026
All exams, both licenses	All delivered sittings (first + repeat)	369	228	61.8%	Jul 1–31, 2026

The broker rows rest on 25 sittings between them. Treat them as a headcount, not a rate — one additional pass moves the broker national figure by ten points. The salesperson rows are the only ones with enough volume to mean much, and even those cover four weeks.

What this number does and does not count

It counts sittings, not people. The 195 state-portion sittings came from 159 distinct candidate IDs, and the 149 national-portion sittings came from 130. So 36 of the state sittings (18.5%) and 19 of the national sittings (12.8%) were repeat visits by someone who had already sat that same portion earlier in the same month. Kansas lets a candidate rebook 24 hours after a failure, so retakes pile up inside a single reporting period faster than they would in most states.

Stripping in-month repeats barely moves it. Counting only each candidate's first July sitting, the state portion runs 104 of 159, or 65.4%, and the national portion 76 of 130, or 58.5%. The repeats themselves passed at 61.1% and 47.4% respectively. Those first-sitting figures are still not first-attempt rates — a candidate who failed in June and passed in July looks like a first-timer in a one-month file — but they bracket the answer. Kansas's true first-attempt rates sit somewhere above 65.4% and 58.5%, and the commission does not report them.

It counts delivered exams only. The same file lists 58 no-shows, 18 cancellations, and 9 appointments still scheduled. None carry a grade and none are in the denominator.

The two portions are not the same people. Per the Kansas candidate handbook, applicants who qualify through licensure in another state take only the Kansas portion, and any candidate who fails one portion retakes only that one. That is why 195 state sittings outnumber 149 national sittings in a state where new candidates must pass both. Averaging the two into a single salesperson figure — 211 of 344 sittings, or 61.3% — blends two different exams taken by two overlapping but distinct populations. We have shown it here only so you can recognize it when a competing page quotes it as "the" Kansas pass rate.

What the Kansas salesperson exam actually is

Kansas administers two separately scheduled, separately scored exams through Pearson VUE. Details below are from the Kansas Real Estate Candidate Handbook.

• National/general portion: 80 scored items plus 5 unscored pretest items, 2.5 hours. The largest single block is Real Estate Contracts and Agency at 16 of 80 items.
• Kansas state portion: 30 scored items plus 10 unscored pretest items, 1.5 hours. The largest single block is the Brokerage Relationships in Real Estate Transactions Act (BRRETA) at 11 of 30 items, with Prohibited Acts next at 8.
• Passing score: a scaled 70 on a 0–100 scale, on each portion independently, for salesperson and broker alike. A scaled score is not a percentage correct; Pearson VUE equates raw scores across exam forms. Numeric scores are reported only to candidates who fail.
• Fee: $70 per exam scheduled. Booking both sections for the same day gets a two-for-one combination price; booking them separately does not.
• Retakes: 24-hour wait before rebooking, and only the failed portion is retaken. The complete license application must reach KREC within six months of the earlier of your two exam dates.

What the portion split says about where candidates lose

The split runs opposite to the usual advice. Thirty items of Kansas statute passed at 64.6%; the eighty-item national portion passed at 57.0%. In July 2026 the general real estate body of knowledge, not Kansas law, was the harder half by 7.6 points.

The failing scores sharpen the picture. Median failing score was 62 on the national portion and 60 on the state portion, against a passing line of 70. But the failures are shaped differently. On the national portion, 18 of 64 failures (28.1%) scored 65–69 — within five points of passing. On the state portion only 13 of 69 failures (18.8%) landed in that band, while 29 of 69 (42.0%) came in below 60.

That is two different problems. National-portion failures cluster just under the line, which is what thin, even coverage across eight content areas looks like: the candidate half-knows most of it and a handful of items decides the sitting. State-portion failures skew further out, a pattern more consistent with candidates who did not work through the Kansas statute list at all. If you are in the second group, the gap is unusually cheap to close — 19 of the 30 scored state items come from just two areas, BRRETA and Prohibited Acts. Passing candidates, for reference, posted a median 77 on the national portion and 79 on the state portion.

The bottom line

For July 2026, Kansas salesperson candidates passed the state portion at 64.6% and the national portion at 57.0%, counting all delivered sittings including retakes. Both numbers are ours, derived from KREC's published results file; the commission states neither. Do not set them beside another state's published figure unless that state also reports all attempts rather than first attempts, and unless you are comparing the same portion. Kansas's own two portions differ by 7.6 points inside a single month and a single license — which is a fair measure of how much the label attached to a pass rate matters before the number does.

The practical read: budget your preparation toward the national portion, where most Kansas candidates fail, and clear the Kansas statute portion first because it is the smaller and more tractable of the two. Work timed, mixed sets until you are landing comfortably above the scaled 70 line rather than near it, then book both sections for the same day. You can start with our free Kansas Real Estate Salesperson practice exam.