Texas broker exam

Texas Real Estate Broker Exam

What the Texas broker exam tests, how it is scored, and 118 broker-track practice questions with cited sources.

Texas broker exam format

TREC licensing exam administered by Pearson VUE; national and state portions are scored separately.

The Texas broker exam runs as two separately scored portions: 85 national questions and 60 Texas law questions.

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Texas broker-track questions

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Under Texas law, ultimate responsibility for the trust account and the conduct of sponsored sales agents rests with:

  1. The sponsoring broker
  2. TREC
  3. Each individual sales agent
  4. The title company handling closing
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The sponsoring broker — The sponsoring broker holds the trust account and is legally responsible for supervising sponsored sales agents' conduct, even though the agents perform the day-to-day work.

Source: Texas Real Estate Commission

Which Texas real estate license type allows a person to operate independently, without being sponsored by another license holder?

  1. Broker
  2. Sales agent
  3. Provisional sales agent
  4. Inactive sales agent
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Broker — Only a broker license, which requires additional education and experience beyond the sales agent level, permits practicing without sponsorship by another broker.

Source: TREC — Become an Individual Real Estate Broker

To qualify for a Texas broker license, an applicant must show active experience as a licensed sales agent or broker for at least how many years during the 60 months preceding the application?

  1. 1 year
  2. 4 years
  3. 2 years
  4. 6 years
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4 years — TREC requires at least four years of active licensed experience during the five-year, 60-month period immediately before the broker application is filed.

Source: TREC — Become an Individual Real Estate Broker

Under current TREC rules, a Texas broker applicant's qualifying practical experience must total at least how many experience points?

  1. 360 points
  2. 1,200 points
  3. 720 points
  4. 900 points
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720 points — TREC's broker experience requirement is a minimum of 720 experience points accumulated through qualifying real estate activity during the 60-month lookback period.

Source: TREC — Become an Individual Real Estate Broker

Texas broker exam FAQ

What is on the Texas real estate broker exam?

The Texas broker exam runs as two separately scored portions: 85 national questions and 60 Texas law questions. You need 68% to pass, within 240 minutes.

Is the Texas broker exam harder than the salesperson exam?

It carries a higher passing score (68% versus 62%) and adds brokerage-operations material - supervision, trust accounting, and firm responsibility - on top of the salesperson outline.

How many Texas broker practice questions does Freehold have?

118 Texas law questions apply to the broker track, including 34 written specifically for brokers, alongside the national broker bank.

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