Hello All
I have had my real estate lic for over 13 years and am going to take the BROKERS test in a few weeks. I have been doing all the practice tests and questions. Just wondering if anyone has any helpful advice on how to study for the state exam and pass. I am located in California.
Thanks

If you are doing practice tests and drills, that's really all you need to do, so long as you're scoring well on the practice exams. California's broker exam covers the same subject matter as the sales person exam, just more questions and you need to get a higher passing score.

That is what Im currently doing. Lots of practice tests and questions. I am getting about 90+% on them.

Are some questions on the brokers test identical to the practice questions? Im going through Allied.

Im in your same boat in NJ. Just completed all of my hours, past all my test exams, now just waiting to take the actual state exam. Best of luck to you. You're almost there!!!!

Thank you
Good luck to you too.
Once I get this studing out of the way and pass the test, I feel like I will have my life back!

I always find it helpful to make 3X5 flashcards for all the important terms, concepts, and formulas. Do it by hand. By the time you have written them down, you already have absorbed a ton of information.

If you usually wear contacts, wear glasses instead.

When I took my Brokers test the air in the room was so dry one of my contacts fell out. Then the other tore. Everyone was having that problem.

Fortunately I had a pair of glasses with me.

That is crazy Auburn CA...........thank you for the advice.

How long has it been since you took the test? Im also in California. Did you just basically memorize the questions? Im just going over and over and over the practice questions and quizzes. I feel like my brain in going to explode with all the info that I am retaining!

I really hope that I pass the first time! I really want to get this over with.

I'm thinking of getting mine too. I've been licensed for 30 yrs now, but never bothered with the Broker's license, especially since my husband has his. But I think I just want to have it anyway. Did you use Lumbleau RE School Online??? They are probably the oldest school out there and all their tests are online, which I prefer, verses books.

I am needing to get mine as well. Is the test really that hard? I want to take it in class, but its looking like online is much more time effective.

I am taking mine through Allied. I have finished all my courses which were easy to get thought since it is an open book test. I am now just reviewing a memorizing questions/answers. Everything is online, which is very easy and convienent. My husband just passed his salesperson and is also studing for the brokers also. I just hope that by getting 90% or more on the practice test means that I am ready to take the final. I take it in a few weeks!

I did mine through Allied as well.

Their exam cram DVD was well worth it. I had it playing on my laptop in my car on the way to the test.

I took my test a couple of years ago. At the time I was living in San Luis Obispo, so I took my test in Fresno. The 2 hour drive allowed me to listed to the whole DVD on my way there, so the info was still fresh in my head.

Their test questions are pretty much exactly the same ones you'll see on the state exam.

I am taking the classes now.People advised me they wold be hard, so far not so hard, but then again I got my license 3.5 years ago and some concepts are still fresh, plus all I have put into practice over the years. I think if you understand the concepts you will be fine.

I PASSED!!!!!! That test was sooo hard! Out of 200 questions I knew that 80 were correct and the others I could get it to 50/50. A couple didnt even make sense! May brain was soooo fried after that test............5 hours! I am so relieved. Thank you all for your advice and good luck to anyone about to take it!

I studied with Allied and was getting 95%-99% on their practice brokers test. I did NOT feel that confident at all after I took the state exam. The state exam had many questions that were not on the practice testing.

Congratultions. The California broker exam is one tough cookie. Takes most people three times to pass it.

Well congrats! It gives me hope. And our test is 2.5 hours. I think 5 hours would kill me.

Anyone taken the newer simulated exam in Georgia? I heard it was tough. I studying for right now.

I passed also. The test was very hard and althought I knew alot some were very ambiguous.

Congrats ruv12 on passing at your first sitting. Unlike the sales agent exam the broker exam is a piece of work. I've passed most of the CPA exam. I've an insurance broker having passed those exams and I had the exact same experience you did.

During the morning session I blazed through thinkin, wow, so easy everyone should be a broker. The afternoon session I stopped marking the questions I didn't know after I had 38 tick marks for unknown questions. By the time I got to question 58 I loosened my tie. At question 63 I removed my baseball cap. When I got to question 72 I started to think about when the test was being offered again. At question 88 or 90 I just gutted through just to finish what I started. I drove back to the Oakland field office the next day for lunch with Raj not to find out the results but just to be in that building without the stress associated with that exam. After lunch Raj used my soc to find out the results. He's a good guy but I didn't believe I actually belive I passed until my file actually updated on the DRE website. That test was so hard there were questions that having an accounting degree, decades of senior or executive level financial, management and business experience didn't come close to helping me answer. I think some of the questions didn't have a correct answer. What worked for me was making flash cards and writing out the answers to the questions I missed on the Allied CD. If looked at licensing in Florida, Georgia and a few other places that made since in 2004 an none were a rigorous as what you went through. Congrats ruv.

"If looked at licensing in Florida, Georgia and a few other places that made since in 2004 an none were a rigorous as what you went through. Congrats ruv."

Well I took the Ga exam within the last year for the brokers and it is not easy at all.My friend took the brokers the year before when they had an easy multiple choice test that was almost identical the sales persons test.

Then they totally change the brokers exam last year to where it's all situational about agents stealing money and other hairbrained questions about carpet running the wrong way in a condo the buyer wants to purchase etc.

The ga broker test has changed recently do not take it lightly if you are testing.

At last look GA offered reciprocity to a great many states. There was a time I thought I could do great things for others in Cobb, Gwinnett, Fulton an Clayton Counties based on things I did for myself in the early 90s.

I passed the California Broker Exam the first time too. I attribute some of the success my prep course. I took Real Estate Trainers -- http://www.retrainers.net or http://www.retrainers.com, I can't remember. But attending the weekend sessions and then doing practice exams during the week put me over the top.

Well, I failed the Georgia simulated exam. I did well in Decision Making (DM), but failed the Information Gathering (IG) by 2 points. In my opinion, the test is very vague. One has to assume too much. In the real world, I assume nothing; It's better to gather too much information than not enough.

Anyhow, I'll dust myself off and try again.

Update: I passed!

Congrats!

Thanks! That is one mind-draining test.

Can someone clarify the advantages of having a Broker's license to a sales license? I'm looking for information on the benefits, verses continuing as a sales person. Thanks

It gives you the option of opening your own brokerage.

Exactly, you don't need to work under another broker. However, it also means keeping more records and paperwork and having more liability and responsibilities.

Second time was the charm for me. The first time I got 74% (needed 75%). The guy sitting in front of me was taking it for the 5th time. I'm glad I didn't have to study for a third time.

Illinois now has the same national exam portion as Georgia and a few other places. I failed the exam last week by 4 points on the information gathering section and scored a 87 on the decision making section. For any of you that have passed this exam do you have any suggestions? I have been a salesperson for 8 years and this is the first time I have not passed a test in my real estate career.

Never mind I passed.

After 8 years, if you've been paying attention, you probably know everything you need to know anyway. Just don't let 'exam jitters" interfer with your drawing from the knowledge you have.

Just passed the state exam today! I had to take two weeks off from taking any bpo work to get it done, although I continued to work on a couple of closings. I enrolled in the online class nine months ago but was so busy that I could never complete all modules.