It was hard! Lot of questions seemed like they tried to make you second guess yourself, and sometimes there were 2 possible answers in my opinion. Glad this part of it is over time to get to work! 🫡
Studied for ~5 days, didnt feel that confident going in, with no prior experience in the industry. Used prep agent, then re exam practice pro, and then went back to prepagent.
ok so Ive been reading through this sub a lot lately, the passes, the "I failed for the 3rd time" ones, the 2am panic posts, all of it. and I keep noticing the same pattern so I wanted just say it plainly.
the people who pass are NOT the ones who had it together. they're not the one with the perfect Notion study tracker or the color coded flashcards(ok some of them do have that, but that's not why they passed lol).
they passed because they didn't stop showing up, even on the days it was 20 mins squeezed in before a shift, even on the days they got half the practice questions wrong and felt like garbage about it.
I got my licence doing the exact thing while working full time, some nights the "studying" was genuinely just me half asleep rereading agency law for the 4th time going "ok this still isn't sticking" and it didn't feel like progress. it just felt like showing up and being confused, over and over, until one day it wasn't confusing anymore. that's actually what studying for this exam looks like for almost everyone. It's just nobody post about the boring middle part, they only post the "I passed" part at the end.
so if you're in the middle of this right nwo and it feels like it's not working, that's not a sign you're behind. that's just what week 4 of studying for a licensing exam feel like for literally everybody. the disorientation isn't a bug, it's just part of the process working on you slower than you'd like.
You don't need to feel ready on the test day. almost nobody does. you just need to have put in the reps.
Keep going. see you on the passed post.
by the way, it's hot this week, stay cool as well.
Anyone who recently cleared the GA real estate exam or preparing for one, any helpful tips. I am reaching at at the end of my course but still have to review all the chapters again to be bit more confident. Any websites for crash course or mock texts. Thank you 😊
Passed my Ohio Real Estate exam. :)
I'm currently preparing for the real estate licensing exam and I'm starting to realize the way most people study is completely backwards.
Right now I read the textbook in the evening, highlight, and review my notes. But I've noticed something: I "recognize" the material when I re-read it, but I'm not sure it would come out on exam day. There's nothing to recognize during an exam — it has to come out on its own.
I've been reading that pass rates are lower than people expect, and most failures come from candidates who relied only on passive reading. I recently switched to doing practice questions and timed simulations and I can already feel the difference. Way less comfortable, but way more honest about what I actually know.
For those of you who already passed:
- Did you rely on reading alone, or did you drill practice questions?
- How many practice exams did you do before the real thing?
- What single thing made the biggest difference for you?
Any advice would be really appreciated. Thanks!
ok I'm still kind of shaking lol but I passed today and I need to write this down while it's fresh because didn't think I'd get here some days.
quick backstory - I have two kids(7 and 9) and a full time job, so studying for this was never gonna be some cure "I studied 4 hours a day" story. I gave myself about 8-9 weeks and just did one hour a day, whatever hour I could find. some nights it was after the kids finally went down and I was already exhausted. some days it was my lunch break eating a sandwich with one hand and reading with the other. not glamorous at all but I showed up basically every day and that's what mattered in the end.
I only used AgentSmartly for this, didn't touch a textbook or buy any other course. and honestly what I liked about it is it didn't drown me in the random info, it just gave me the core concepts that actually matter for each topic. then the practice questions were literally built off those same concepts so it all connected instead of feeling like random trivia.
my routine wa pretty simple - review the concepts for a topic, then immediately do practice questions on the SAME topic before moving on( to me,I aim for 70% score for each practice session). I think this part actually mattered a lot because it meant I couldn't fool mysefl. like I'd think I understood agency law and then bomb the practice questions and realize nope, I didn't actually get it, I just recognized the words. so back I'd go. did this for every topic - disclosures, agency, transfer of property, owership/land use, valuation, financing, contracts, all of it.
also NO MATH on my exam!!!!
and ngl during the actual test I had this moment where I reallized like 70-80 of the questions were basically the same core concepts I'd drilled over and over, wasn't random at all, it was stuff I'd already seen a hunderd times. that's when I stopped panicking and just trused what I'd put it.
just wanna say - this sub genuinely helped me so much while I was prepping. reading everyone else's post, seeing people in the same baat as me(working, tired, still grinding), it kept me going more than I expected. so this is me trying to pay a little of that back.
if you're working full time or have kids or both and you're wondering if you even have time for this - you do, you don't need hours, you need like one hour you protect and something that doesn't waste your time on stuff that won't even show up.
happy to answer questions if anyone's in the thick of studying right now, I remrember exactly how that feels.
I’m going to take my Real Estate exam for GA on Monday, which is in a few days. It’s just the online portion that comes with my course. With that being said, I was wondering if anyone has worn AirPods during the Testing or if that is not allowed.
Is that correct? I know you had to complete three courses but of all the “I passed” posts I came across, I did not see this detail. 3 exams, to be taken at least 15?18? Days apart? Is that correct? In CA.
I thought I’d be able to go through all the courses but I’m using Aceable (which I regret a bit) and it won’t even let me move on to the next course materials until I pass the first course
This is a 100% completely true story.
About a year ago I was studying for the Florida Real Estate exam, enrolled at Gold Coast Schools. Long story short, I hated the course so much that after I passed the state exam, I decided to work on a better school rather than practicing real estate.
When I was taking the course I kept finding myself opening ChatGPT (specifically the Voice mode) and asking it to explain the latin terms like Habendum, or helping me find ways to remember Littoral vs Riparian, etc. I felt like I always had Chat open on the side of the slides/videos.
And when I took a practice exam, they would basically tell me: you got this answer wrong, the correct answer was B. But they wouldn't tell me why or what chapter/slide to review. So once again, I found myself turning to chatgpt. I would basically export all of my quiz results into Chat and would say something like "based on everything I got wrong, create a curriculum for my weak spots."
I remember having a 40 min conversation back n forth with Chat on the way to the Pearson Vue exam, really just drilling into all my weak spots.
Anyways, I passed the exam thanks to ChatGPT, but instead of activating my license, I focused on building a better school. I'm going to shamelessly plug it below, because it's the exact school I wish I had when I was studying for the real estate exam.
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I took both tests at the PSI center, and hated it big time. Bright florescent lights, hot one minute, cold the next. The computer program was very outdated, and my picture was huge on the screen and a distraction. They shoved the question to the upper left corner, which drew your eyes up, and now I'm watching people leave-another distraction. I'm seriously thinking taking the next exams at home. THOUGHTS about Online???
Took my Maryland and National exam Monday and passed them both my first time! While it wasn’t easy, I thought my final exam was harder in the 60 hr prep class I took. I plan to take the Virginia State test in the next couple of weeks but heard that was much tougher. Ask me anything!
I have recently finished my real estate pre licensing classes, took my time with it as it was online. I work full time, took for about three months to finish since I was in no rush to finish the pre licensing classes. For some background, I graduated college in may with my finance degree and realized it was not what I wanted to do my entire life so this is how I came to my conclusion to start learning real estate.
I am feeling discouraged, I have been taking practice test after practice test but it feels like I am learning nothing and not remembering anything.
Did anyone else feel the same way when studying? I consider myself to have a lot of perseverance, I just want to hear other people’s tips on what worked for them.
Like a book or some print out pages that I can carry when im somewhere not home. Any chance I can print out so I can study making circles and lines on papers iykyk.
I passed my pre licensing course today on Aceable agent. It says my course is locked and they need to review the footage of my exam. Can anyone please tell me what happens next and how soon do they get back to me? I’m a little anxious/excited about it. Thank you in advance
Hi everyone! My exam is this Friday. I've been studying very hard. I've been using Real Estate Wizard's practice tests for Michigan. I've taken it almost 20 times or so. Does anyone have any recommendations for other resources for studying for this exam?
Does anyone have any advice for passing the NC real estate exam? I have failed the exam for the third attempt and its starting to become discouraging. I feel that I can talk about concepts and information all day..but cant seem to pass. The wording is horribly tricky. Has anyone tried "Just Call Maggie" on youtube? Were you able to pass? If so, how did you prepare for it?
Anybody else have trouble being able to schedule your PSI exam in GA after finishing school? Everything is passed, Colibri sent records to commission, who sent records to PSI, and now I’m at a standstill. The call center is located outside of US I believe, and I can not get them to authorize me to schedule my test. I even called them WITH a lady from the GREC who has been helping me all week. Any advice I’m trying to get licensed ASAP.
Made another one of these infographic study sheets — this time contracts, since it's easily one of the most confusing topics for me. So many "vs" comparisons that sound similar until you actually break them down(bilateral vs unilateral, assignment vs novation, vaild vs void vs voidable... it's a lot).
Pulled all the concepts from AgentSmartly(the main prep tool I been using) and just condensed the ones I kept getting wrong into one visual. Hope it help someone else too.
If you found this useful, I've been doing one of these for every major topic — links in case you missed them:
Good luck to everyone grinding through this exam.
Hello! It’s been 10 days since I mailed in my application and money order. I do not see that the money order has been cashed yet and it’s making me nervous
The website said as of August 3rd they’re processing apps received on July 28th. (So before mine of course)
Anyone have experience with this process or any insight into processing times and stages?
My fingerprints show they were already transmitted so it’s literally just waiting on the DRE to get my app and approve it.
