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

The numbers to remember

• 110 total questions, 4-hour time limit
• Pass at 70% correct — that's 77 of 110 right
• Exam fee: $38, paid to PSI Services LLC
• Cancel at least 2 days before your scheduled date or you may forfeit the slot
• Failed attempts can typically be rescheduled within a couple of business days
• Minimum age to apply: 18; prelicensure course: 75 hours at a licensed school
• New Jersey has no reciprocity with any other state
• Initial salesperson license fee (separate from the exam fee): $160

Content domains and weights

National portion (by percentage):

• Contracts — 19%
• Agency — 13%
• Practice of Real Estate — 12%

New Jersey state-law portion (by item count, salesperson level):

• Statutes and Rules Governing Licensee Activities — 22 items
• Licensing Requirements — 3 items
• Additional Requirements — 3 items
• Duties and Powers of the Real Estate Commission — 2 items

Treat the national percentages and the state-law item counts as two separate study budgets rather than one combined list — they are scored on different scales, so a low item count does not mean a topic is unimportant, only that fewer questions probe it.

High-yield review areas

• Contracts is the single heaviest national topic — review contract formation, essential elements, and remedies for breach closely.
• Statutes and Rules is the single heaviest state-law topic by a wide margin — this is where most New Jersey-specific rule questions will live.
• Agency duties (client vs. customer, disclosure obligations) show up throughout the national portion, not just in the Agency section alone.
• Don't skip the small state-law categories (Licensing Requirements, Additional Requirements, Duties and Powers of the Commission) just because they carry fewer items — they're still testable, and a few careless misses there add up.
• Revisit eligibility basics too: the 18-year minimum age and the 75-hour prelicensure course are foundational facts that can turn up in Licensing Requirements questions.

Top traps

• Answering state-law questions using general real estate logic instead of New Jersey's specific statutory wording.
• Assuming broker-level or instructor-level item counts apply to the salesperson exam — they don't; each license level has its own breakdown.
• Leaving questions blank instead of making your best answer within the 4-hour window.
• Forgetting that the $38 test fee and the $160 initial license fee are two separate payments to two separate parties.
• Assuming reciprocity with a prior real estate license from another state — New Jersey does not offer it, so the full course and exam apply regardless of out-of-state credentials.