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Real Estate Salesperson licensing

State-mandated pre-licensing for real estate salespersons.

43 published exams, administered by 43 separate bodies. Official exam lengths run from 100 to 152 questions. Time limits run from 1h 30m to 4h. 3,315 free practice questions are live across the family. State-specific versions: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV and WY.

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Exams in Real Estate Salesperson licensing

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The entry licence, state by state: what actually differs

Every page in this family is one state's entry-level real estate licence exam. The national portion is the same body of knowledge in every state — agency, contracts, property ownership, financing, valuation, fair housing — which is why the national practice set here is shared. What differs is everything around it, and those differences are what decide whether you pass on the first attempt: the pre-licence course the state requires, the testing company that delivers the exam, the state-law portion, the retake rule, the background check and the deadline for applying once you have passed.

Course hours are the first fork. Every state requires a commission-approved pre-licence course before you may sit the exam, but the hour count and the structure vary widely — Minnesota, for instance, splits its education into three courses and requires only the first before the exam, the rest before application. Montana adds a general-education prerequisite. Attorneys are exempt from the course in some states, Missouri among them. The state page shows the exact requirement from the commission.

Delivery and retakes are the second. Pearson VUE and PSI split the states between them, each publishes a candidate bulletin with the outline, and the retake rule is the commission's: retake only the failed portion within a window in Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana and Louisiana; no same-day retest in Iowa; unlimited retakes before the course certificate expires in Maine. Background checks come before or after the exam depending on the state — Kentucky's FBI check must be started before you can even schedule — and the application deadline after passing is the last trap: Maryland allows a year, others less.

Which page to open

Every state page carries its own course hours, exam fee, question counts per portion, passing standard and retake rule from the commission or testing-company bulletin.

The biggest markets
Texas Real Estate Sales AgentCalifornia Real Estate SalespersonFlorida Real Estate Sales AssociateNew York Real Estate SalespersonGeorgia Real Estate Salesperson

Texas calls it sales agent, Florida sales associate, the rest salesperson. Florida requires a physical test centre; the others offer online proctoring through their contractor.

States whose entry licence is titled 'broker'
colorado/real/estate/brokeroregon/real/estate/brokerwashington/real/estate/brokernorth/carolina/real/estate/broker

Same entry tier, different word — these pages are filed in the broker family with every broker-titled licence, and each says which tier it certifies. Colorado's qualifying-education rules and Washington's scaled passing standard per portion are on their pages.

States with a separate national and state registration
Arkansas Real Estate

Arkansas registers the general and state-specific portions separately. Most states register both in one sitting; the page says which.

States where the background check gates the exam
Kentucky Real EstateArizona Real Estate Salesperson

Kentucky's FBI check must be initiated before scheduling and is valid for a limited period; Arizona requires a fingerprint clearance card for an original licence.

States with unusual retake or deadline rules
Idaho Real EstateIowa Real EstateMaine Real EstateMaryland Real Estate

Idaho caps the time between passing one portion and applying; Iowa bars same-day retests; Maine allows unlimited retakes before the certificate expires; Maryland sets a one-year application deadline after passing.

Licensed elsewhere and moving
Missouri Real EstateGeorgia Real Estate Salesperson

Missouri lets out-of-state licensees sit the state portion only; reciprocity elsewhere ranges from full recognition of specific states to the complete exam. The background check is never waived.

The national material on its own
Real Estate Salesperson

One practice set for the national portion. Pair it with your state page for the state-law portion.

Same order in every state

  1. 01Complete the commission-approved pre-licence course for your state; the hour count and any split into required-before-exam and required-before-application courses are on the state page.
  2. 02Start the background check when the state requires it — before scheduling in some states, after passing in others.
  3. 03Register with the state's testing contractor, sit the national and state portions, and if you split the result, retake only the failed portion within the window.
  4. 04Apply to the commission before the post-exam deadline, naming a sponsoring broker where required, then renew on the state's cycle with its continuing-education hours.

Fee, format and passing standard

The 8 exams asked about most, of 43 on this page. Each figure is that exam's verified fact, cited to the regulator's page on the exam guide it links to. A blank cell means the regulator publishes no fixed figure.

ExamFeeQuestionsTimePassingWritten by
Texas Real Estate Sales Agent$581254h56 national + 28 state (raw correct)Texas Real Estate Commission
California Real Estate Salesperson$1001503h70%California DRE
Florida Real Estate Sales Associate$371003h 30m75%Florida DBPR / FREC
New York Real Estate Salesperson$15—1h 30mPass/Fail (no numeric score reported)New York State Department of State, Division of Licensing Services
Georgia Real Estate Salesperson$175152—Pass required on both portions (100 national + 52 state)Georgia Real Estate Commission (GREC)
Arizona Real Estate Salesperson$1301404h75%Arizona Department of Real Estate
Kentucky Real Estate$1001204h75%Kentucky Real Estate Commission
Missouri Real Estate$52——National portion 70%; state portion 75%Missouri Real Estate Commission

Who writes these exams

State real estate commissions and boards
Fifty-one sets of rules. Each state page names its commission, cites its licensing page or bulletin, and shows the figures from it.

Official pages this section is drawn from

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Pass-rate breakdowns and independent prep-course comparisons for real estate salesperson licensing exams. Every figure links back to the body that publishes it.

Grounding

Official sources

Every exam number on this page traces to a document published by the body that sets or administers the exam. These are the primary publishers cited across Real Estate Salesperson licensing.

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