Passed my CA real estate exam today!
Hello everyone, passed my exam today on my 1st attempt. Hope this doesn’t come off as bragging sounding, not my intention. Actually the opposite I did not think stood a chance at passing 1st try. I figured would be 2nd or 3rd. I haven’t taken any test or exam in 20 plus years and was so nervous, anxious and didn’t think had it in me to learn all this info. Big Thanks to some knowledge of this community and reading some others advice.
Here’s what I did(in hopes it reaches someone that needs it). I took my courses through Colibrri, kinda slacked first month back in Jan, wasted a lot of time reading each word in the chapters and taking notes. Then just started skimming and reading the chapter reviews, doing chapter quizzes and then each exam. After completed my courses end of April. I signed up for month with prep agent Joe. I really enjoyed his videos, he’s funny and chill but did not realize when purchased the program was aceable agent and was lots of others teaching with the 50 bucks a month package. So I didn’t get any live webinars with Joe, but still watched a lot of his videos and got a decent understanding of some concepts and memorization. I thought I got all I could from prep agent and didn’t sign up again after month expired .
Next I signed up for RE exam pro, from the suggestion of another person on Reddit. This was my most valuable tool, IMO it’s worded way harder than the actually exam and it prepared me over time to handle the questions, stay calm and read every question and answer . My scores were pretty low and kinda broke my confidence abit. But then I discovered Dee kumars vidoes like week and half ago and it all clicked for me. Started getting a lot of answers right on his channel , and remembering the concepts. He breaks it down nicely and little more speed up than prep agent Joe(no diss) but still just enough to get it memorized . I watched a ton of his videos, cuts it down to what you really need to focus on, coupled with taking my RE exams before and after work(or quick 10-20 questions ones slow times at work) . I’m married and Work 2 jobs so free time was hard to come by. I purchased Dees 48hr review for like 10-12 bucks and prob didn’t need it, all stuff knew and vidoes up already up for free but wanted to support his channel and team. Plus it was nice to have structed breakdown, on what to do days leading up to exam. I used chat a tiny bit for some quizzes on California, and touch up few week points(financing)
My best scores on RE full simulated exams before was like just barely 70, and then 71, even with cheating a little and asking google(side note google was wrong a good amount times). I read every wrong and right answer, wrote down all the wrong ones(worst hand writing and did not read it again but it helped). Then Just yesterday I took a timed exam and got a 80. Felt as ready as was going be but still not 100 sure and booked test month ago. Point of no return. I got up ealry followed instructions, ate nice breakfast got there early etc and listened to vocab and touch of contract video on car ride over to Oakland.
Once got to the center, my anxiety kinda kicked in, and don’t really remember the first 20-30 questions. But you can go back and re click/change answers. No math on mine and the mile question popped up. Remember that and acre, acre did not for me but had it memorized. I don’t really remember anh other ones. I skipped ones wasn’t sure on and went through the rest. I went back to ones I didn’t click, and tried focus best I could on the 50 or so mins had left. Couple jus had to make education guess or 50-50, and then went back and tickerd with first 20-40 questions, def fixed a couple mistakes and maybe made few more I’ll never know? Spent the full 3hrs and when leaving, getting my things for sure thought failed. The lady at the desk told me would have results in hour(I completely forgot this was most likely that I passed since didn’t get print out) lack of awareness or jus the exhaustion from exam but she told me before I left wouldn’t be seeing me again and smiled. I instantly got teary eyed, said thank you and walked away fast. I couldn’t believe it, and honestly still can’t. I did not think had it in me but it was all there with all this prep, and study. Shoot out to all the comments on here, encouraging me, prep agent Joe, Dee kumar and most importantly RE exam pro. Not joking that was the best 11-12 bucks I spent, it will break you down some but it will also get you over the goal line. The real exam was not as hard as RE exam, maybe few questions worded this way but most part seemed much easier. Anyway hope this helps atleast one person as others have helped me. Keep on trucking and studying, you got this!