The Exams
The salesperson and broker exams of every state, each in its published question count, time limit and passing score — the national portion beside your state’s law portion, or the exam your state writes itself.
Not one national bank with a state chapter bolted onto it.
Every state requires pre-licensing education hours from a provider it has approved before you may sit. We are not one, and this is not that.
How your exam is built
Most states buy a national portion from a testing vendor and write a state portion themselves.
A few of the largest states write the whole thing.
Shape one — two portions
A national portion of about 80 scored questions in around two and a half hours, then your state’s portion — usually 30 to 60 scored questions in its own time — scored separately against its own passing mark. You can pass one and fail the other, and if you do, you retake only the one you failed. Which is exactly why studying them as a single undifferentiated blob is a mistake.
Shape two — one exam
California, Florida and New York do not use a separate national portion. Their exams are written to their own outlines, mixing the national material and the state material in their own proportions, on one clock with one passing score. The national material is still most of what is on them — it is just not a separately scored half.
Either way, the course is built to your state’s outline, not to a generic one. The engine composes practice exams to the published section counts and weights of the exam you are actually going to sit, so a practice test feels like a rehearsal rather than a sampler.
The larger half
Pearson VUE’s national salesperson outline runs 80 scored questions plus 5 unscored pretest items in 150 minutes, across eight sections in a published distribution.
Practice exams here are composed to that distribution, not to a round number.
The salesperson distribution, and the broker distribution beside it — the same eight sections, weighted differently, which is the shape of the whole product in one table:
| Section | Salesperson | Broker |
|---|---|---|
| Real property, legal descriptions and property use | 11 | 10 |
| Ownership, transfer and recording | 9 | 8 |
| Value and appraisal | 11 | 10 |
| Contracts and agency | 16 | 15 |
| Practice | 10 | 12 |
| Disclosures and environmental issues | 9 | 9 |
| Financing and settlement | 7 | 8 |
| Real estate mathematics | 7 | 8 |
| Scored total | 80 | 80 |
Counts are from the vendor’s published national and general content outlines effective April 1, 2025, and each section carries its own published mix of recall, application and analysis. Five additional unscored pretest items are embedded and are not identified to you. States delivered by PSI use that vendor’s own national outline — property ownership, land use, valuation and market analysis, financing, agency, property disclosures, contracts, leasing and property management, transfer of title, practice and calculations — typically 80 items in 150 minutes. Confirm your own exam’s current shape in your state’s candidate handbook, which is the authority and which changes.
Named, not counted
Every prep company in this category advertises “all 50 states”.
We are going to name ours instead, and we are not going to name one before it is real.
No state is live yet, because the product has not launched.
That is a real answer rather than a placeholder. AccelaStudy® AI Real Estate opens in May 2027, and the states covered at launch will be listed on this page by name — each one appearing when its law cluster has been built from that state’s published exam outline, its license act and its commission rules, and has passed the check that refuses to ship a half-built one.
Published shapes
Stated because a candidate deciding how to study deserves the real numbers, and because the numbers differ more than most people expect.
This is not the coverage list — that is the section above, and it names states.
| State | Salesperson exam, as published |
|---|---|
| Texas | 85 national questions in 150 minutes and 40 state questions in 90 minutes, scored separately — 56 of 85 to pass the national portion and 28 of 40 to pass the state portion. The broker exam adds a state portion of 50 scored items, passing at 60 and 38. |
| California | One state-written exam of 150 questions in 3 hours 15 minutes, passing at 70 percent. The broker exam is 200 questions in 5 hours, passing at 75 percent. |
| Florida | One exam of 100 questions in 3 hours 30 minutes, passing at 75 — 45 national principles, 45 Florida law and 10 mathematics. |
| New York | One state-administered exam of 75 questions in 90 minutes, passing at 70 percent. |
| New Jersey | 110 questions in 4 hours — 80 national and 30 state — passing at 70 percent. |
| Arizona | The national portion plus a state portion of 60 scored items. |
| Georgia | 152 questions in total across the national and state portions. |
From each state’s published candidate information and the vendors’ content outlines, as of August 2026. Examination fees across the states run from about $37 to about $175, and the pre-licensing education requirement runs from 40 hours to 180 hours depending on the state. All of it changes. Your state’s current candidate handbook is the authority, not this table.
The ladder
It repeats most of the salesperson exam and adds brokerage management, supervision and trust accounting on top.
Everywhere else in this category, you buy that overlap twice.
The broker national portion moves weight out of the fundamentals and into practice, financing and mathematics. You do not sit through the fundamentals again from zero — the engine opens on what shifted and on what is genuinely new.
Several states examine broker candidates on a longer state portion than salespeople, and some add a case-study section that is a different kind of question entirely. Where your state does, the simulation does.
Commingling, the deadline for depositing earnest money, reconciliation, what comes out of the account and when — on a worksheet you actually fill in, because this is the part of the broker exam that punishes people who only read about it.
Come back whenever the experience requirement and your own plans line up. Resubscribe for the weeks you need; your salesperson history, your proficiency and your weak areas are all still there.
Where the line is
Every state requires pre-licensing education from a provider it has approved before you are allowed to take the exam at all.
That is a different product from exam preparation, and in every state you need both.
Property, contracts and agency at the foundational level — estates and interests, how title moves, what a contract needs to be enforceable, who the client is and what is owed to them. It is the material the first week of every pre-licensing course covers and the material a lot of candidates are still shaky on in week ten, and it is free permanently, on the same engine as every paid course.
It sits beside Home Buying and Real Estate Basics, our free course on the same transaction from the buyer’s side of the table — already live, also free, also no card.
Exam preparation only: AccelaStudy AI is not a real estate school. It does not provide pre-licensing, post-licensing or continuing-education hours, it is not an approved education provider in any state, and nothing here counts toward an education requirement or produces a certificate. It does not administer, register for, schedule, score or guarantee any examination.
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