Delaware Real Estate Cheat Sheet.
The night-before summary, built like the exam.

The numbers to remember

• Exam fee: $88
• Application fee: $149
• Time limit: 4 hours for both portions combined
• Passing score: scaled 70 on a 0-100 scale, per portion
• National portion: 80 scored + 5 unscored pretest items
• State portion: 40 scored + 10 unscored pretest items
• Minimum age: 18
• Pre-licensing course: 99 hours
• Retake window for a failed portion: within 1 year of completing pre-licensing education
• Reexam wait: 24 hours before booking; reservations need 24 hours lead time
• Attempt limit before repeating the course: 3 attempts
• Application submission window: 6 months from when you begin
• New-licensee course requirement: 12 hours within 90 days of licensure

Content domains and weights

National (80 items): Contracts & Agency 16 · Real Property Characteristics 11 · Property Value & Appraisal 11 · Real Estate Practice 10 · Forms of Ownership/Transfer/Title 9 · Property Disclosures & Environmental 9 · Financing & Settlement 7 · Math Calculations 7.

Delaware state (40 items): Statutory Requirements Governing Licensees 17 · Additional State Topics 16 · Duties & Powers of the Commission 4 · Licensing Requirements 3.

Both portions are scored independently against the same scaled-70 standard, so a strong national score does not offset a weak state score, and vice versa.

High-yield review areas

• Agency relationships and fiduciary duties — the single heaviest national domain.
• Delaware statutory requirements for licensees — the single heaviest state domain.
• Legal descriptions and property characteristics — dense but high-weight.
• Appraisal methods and value approaches — recurring across scenario questions.
• Math formulas (commission splits, prorations, area calculations) — fewer items but slower to solve.
• Additional state topics and Commission duties — smaller in count but easy to overlook in favor of the bigger domains.

Top traps

• Confusing general national concepts with Delaware-specific statutory rules — study them as separate tracks.
• Assuming pretest items are identifiable — they are mixed in and cannot be distinguished from scored items.
• Running out of time on math items by not budgeting extra minutes for calculation-heavy questions.
• Waiting until the last month of your 6-month application window or your 1-year retake window to act.
• Forgetting the 12-hour, 90-day new-licensee course requirement after you pass.
• Booking a reexamination without accounting for the mandatory 24-hour wait, which can delay a retake you were counting on.