Oregon Real Estate Pass Rate 2026: 46% State Portion

The official pass rate for the state portion of the Oregon real estate broker exam is 46%, and it counts first attempts only. The figure comes from the Oregon Real Estate Agency's Licensing Division report in the August 3, 2026 Real Estate Board meeting packet, and it covers 2026 year to date through June 2026. The same table reports the national portion of the same exam at 65%. Those two numbers describe the same candidates sitting the same exam on the same morning, and they are nineteen points apart — which is why quoting either one on its own as "the Oregon pass rate" tells you almost nothing. Oregon is one of roughly ten state real estate commissions that publish a pass rate at all, and rarer still in publishing a five-year series split by portion. The series, not the single year, is the story.

Every official Oregon real estate pass rate

Oregon publishes one table, headed "First Time Pass Rate Percentage," on the Exam Statistics page of each Real Estate Board meeting packet. This is the complete series as of the August 3, 2026 packet.

Licence and portion	Attempt basis	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (thru June)
Broker — state portion	First attempt only	44%	42%	44%	46%	46%
Broker — national portion	First attempt only	66%	64%	62%	61%	65%
Principal broker — state portion	First attempt only	54%	47%	51%	44%	48%
Principal broker — national portion	First attempt only	65%	54%	71%	74%	74%
Property manager (single exam)	First attempt only	65%	63%	60%	57%	52%

Two things the table does not print. The 2026 column is a partial year — this version covers data through June 2026. And Oregon publishes percentages without denominators: no tested or passed counts are attached to the pass-rate series, so the sample size behind any single cell is not public. The nearest volume figure on the same page is a monthly exam count, which records 287 broker exams for June 2026.

Partial-year columns move, and this one already has. The previous packet, dated June 1, 2026 and covering data through April, showed broker state at 45% and broker national at 66%. Two extra months shifted both by a point, in opposite directions. Treat the 2026 column as provisional until the year closes, and check which packet any figure came from before repeating it.

What this number does and does not count

Three qualifiers are built into the phrase "First Time Pass Rate Percentage." Each one changes what 46% means.

It counts first attempts only. Retakes are excluded entirely, and Oregon publishes no retake series and no all-attempts series. So 46% is not the share of candidates who eventually get licensed — that number is certainly higher, and it is not published. It is the share of first sittings on the state section that cleared the bar.

It counts one portion at a time. The Oregon broker exam has a national section and a state section, scored separately, and the Agency reports them as separate rows. Neither row is the probability of clearing the whole exam in one visit. Passing requires 75% on both sections, and Oregon publishes no combined both-sections-first-time rate. Whatever that joint figure is, it is necessarily lower than either published number.

It is not comparable to most other states' figures. Among the minority of commissions that publish anything, some report all attempts including retakes, some break out first-time and repeat candidates separately, and some publish one blended rate that merges the national and state portions into a single percentage. Oregon's 46% and another state's 60% can easily be measuring different quantities. Compare Oregon only against another first-attempt, single-portion figure — and say that is what you are doing.

The exam behind the number

Oregon's entry-level real estate licence is called a broker. That trips up candidates arriving from other states, where the entry-level credential is a salesperson or sales associate licence and "broker" means the tier above. In Oregon, broker is where you start; principal broker is the supervisory licence above it. PSI administers the exam.

Section	Questions	Time	Passing score
National	80 multiple choice	150 minutes	75%
State	50 multiple choice	90 minutes	75%

The exam fee is $75. Fingerprinting costs $61.25, paid to PSI at the test site, and the broker licence application itself carries a $300 nonrefundable fee paid to the Agency. Oregon also requires 150 hours of approved pre-licence education before you sit.

Do the arithmetic on that 75% and the two sections stop looking alike. On the national section, 75% of 80 questions is exactly 60 correct, leaving room for 20 misses. On the state section, 75% of 50 is 37.5 — meaning 38 correct in practice, and a ceiling of twelve misses. The shorter section is the one with less margin for error, not more.

Sections are scored independently and a passed section stays valid for 12 months, so a split result means retaking only the half you failed. You cannot retest the same day; PSI's bulletin describes rebooking the following day and sitting again as soon as two days later, subject to seat availability.

What the portion split says about what to study

A low state rate next to a high national rate is a diagnostic, and it points somewhere specific. If the national section were the problem, the fix would be more real estate fundamentals — finance, agency, contracts, valuation. It is not the problem. At 65%, the national portion passes at close to two in three, and the national half is the part that commercial prep courses are built around, because it is the part that is broadly the same in every state.

The state section is where Oregon candidates fail, and the concentration in its blueprint explains a lot.

State section topic	Items	Share of section
Oregon Real Estate Related Statutes	15	30%
Regulation of Broker Activities	12	24%
License Law and Disciplinary Measures	6	12%
Agency Law and Rules	5	10%
Document Handling and Recordkeeping	5	10%
Property Management	4	8%
Handling of Clients' Funds	3	6%

Oregon statutes and regulation of broker activities are 27 of the 50 items between them — 54% of the section. Set that against a twelve-miss ceiling and the exposure is obvious: a candidate who is merely shaky on those two blocks, missing half of the 27, has already failed the section before the other five topics are scored. There is no wide, forgiving base of general knowledge to absorb the damage the way there is across 80 national questions.

The trend reinforces it. The state row reads 44, 42, 44, 46, 46 across five years — essentially flat. A rate that stable is a structural feature of the exam and of how candidates prepare for it, not a hard form or an unlucky cohort. The national row moved more, sliding from 66% to 61% and recovering to 65%, which is what ordinary year-to-year variation looks like by comparison.

The clearest corroboration sits two rows down in the same table, on the same first-attempt basis, published by the same agency — so the comparison is legitimate. Principal broker candidates, pursuing Oregon's supervisory licence, pass the national portion at 74% and the state portion at 48%. More advanced candidates post a higher national rate and the same depressed state rate. The gap is not inexperience or weak test-taking. It is Oregon-specific law.

The bottom line

46% of first attempts at the Oregon broker state section passed in 2026 through June; 65% of first attempts at the national section did. Neither figure is the odds of walking out fully licensed on day one, because Oregon does not publish a combined rate and does not publish retakes at all. What the published data does support is a clear allocation decision: the national section is the bigger half of the exam and the easier one to clear, while the state section — 50 questions, a twelve-miss ceiling, and 54% of its content in Oregon statutes and broker regulation — is the half that has failed more than half of first-time candidates every year since 2022.

The state section rewards recall of specific Oregon rules rather than general real estate reasoning, which makes it the part you can most reliably test yourself on before test day. Working through a free Oregon Real Estate Broker practice exam under the real 75% standard is the fastest way to find out whether those 27 statute and broker-regulation items are actually secure.