Real Estate Practice Exam (2026): Free Questions and the Prep Courses Worth Buying

Thirty free real estate practice exam questions are sitting a few inches below this paragraph. They cover the national portion, they run on this page in your browser, and they ask for no email address, no account and no card. Answer one and the explanation appears immediately. Finish all thirty and you get a score, a percentage, a read against the seventy percent line, and a topic breakdown showing which subject is costing you the exam.

The buying advice comes after the questions, because that is the honest order. Most pages ranking for real estate practice test are affiliate pages, and the ranking follows the commission. This one reports what each vendor publishes, what none of them publish, and where the marketing headline and the terms disagree.

I am Saad Jamil. Licensed since 2007, still selling today at Samson Properties in Chantilly, Virginia, with more than $500M and over 800 homes closed. I sat this exam myself years ago and I coach new agents for a living, so I run real estate coaching for new agents that competes for the same dollar these prep companies want. Treat me as an interested party. I have also not bought or tested any product reviewed here. Everything below comes from vendor pages, state candidate handbooks and named third parties, checked on 21 August 2026.

Take the practice exam

Thirty questions, one at a time, four options each. All of it is national portion material: ownership, land use, valuation, financing, contracts, agency, fair housing, transfer of title, practice of real estate and one math problem. No state licence law, because that half of the exam can only be taught by your own commission's handbook.

Answer and it tells you at once whether you were right and why. You cannot change an answer once it is locked, because clicking again until the box turns green teaches you nothing. At the end you get a percentage, a read against seventy percent and a topic breakdown.

How to read your score

Two things about that percentage. Seventy percent is the widget's convention, not your state's rule. Connecticut passes salespersons at 70 percent and brokers at 75, California requires at least 70 percent. Florida wants 75 points out of 100, and a District of Columbia bulletin last revised in October 2018 sets 75 percent. Texas states it as raw counts, 56 of 80 scored national items and 28 of 40 scored state items, which is 70 percent of each.

Second, thirty questions is a small sample. A 73 percent here does not predict a pass and a 63 percent does not predict a fail, because the sampling error on thirty items swallows that gap.

The part worth acting on is the topic breakdown. Drop two of the four contracts questions and two of the four agency questions and that is not noise, it is a study plan. Contracts and agency are the heaviest scored material on both outlines.

What is on the national portion

The national portion tests general principles that hold across state lines: how estates in land work, what an easement appurtenant is, who owes fiduciary duties to whom, how a mortgage differs from a deed of trust. The state portion tests your licence law. In most jurisdictions the two are scored and passed separately.

Now the exception that catches people. Some states have no national portion at all. Florida's Sales Associate exam is a single 100 question exam on Florida's own 19 topic outline, and California's is a single 150 question exam on its own seven area outline. Test in either state and a national question bank is background reading, not a rehearsal.

The two outlines, and why they differ

Here is what most practice exam pages get wrong. There is no such thing as the national outline. Pearson VUE and PSI each write their own, weight the areas differently and do not use the same number of areas. Averaging them describes no exam anybody sits.

Pearson VUE publishes counts. Its National and General Exam Content Outline for Salespersons, document 099913, effective January 2025, spreads 80 scored items across eight areas, with five unscored pretest items on top. Texas reproduces the identical split.

PSI publishes percentages instead, across eleven areas, in force since 1 October 2023. Georgia's bulletin dated 1 July 2026 and Connecticut's dated 13 November 2025 carry identical figures, which is two independent confirmations.

Side by side, the trap is obvious. PSI lists Contracts at 19 percent and Agency at 13 percent, roughly a third of the exam between them. Pearson VUE folds the same material into one area worth 16 of 80 items, or 20 percent. Math is 7 percent on PSI and 8.75 percent on Pearson VUE.

One more warning. That PSI revision, documented by the Colorado Division of Real Estate in a notice dated 20 June 2023, moved Contracts from 17 percent to 19 and Calculations from 10 to 7. If you see Contracts quoted at 17 percent, that page is stale.

Which of them scores you is not something either company maps cleanly. Pearson VUE's A to Z list shows 21 United States real estate programmes. PSI states it holds 29 contracts and publishes no roster. Third vendors exist too, since CompuCram sells an AMP national package alongside its PSI and Pearson VUE ones. Ask your state commission, not a blog.

How many questions, how long you get

The sourced range across the states checked here is 100 to 152 total questions, 180 to 240 minutes, and passing scores of 70 to 75 percent, every figure taken from a regulator's or a test vendor's own candidate bulletin. The District of Columbia sits in the same band, 110 questions in 210 minutes, on a bulletin last revised in 2018.

Fees are not consistent either. Texas charges $43 whether you sit one portion or both, and the District of Columbia charged $61.50 on the same basis. Connecticut is $59 first time and $51 to retake, Georgia $175 an attempt and non refundable, California $100 and $100 again to re-sit.

Florida is the gap. Neither the state candidate booklet nor Pearson VUE's Florida page publishes an exam fee, so I am not going to invent one.

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What passing takes, and failing

Where the exam has two portions you pass them separately. Texas puts it in raw counts: "For salespersons, you need to answer 56 questions correctly on the National examination and 28 questions correctly on the State examination in order to pass the examination." Fail one, keep the other, retake only the one you failed.

Retake rules are where states diverge hardest. Texas makes you wait 24 hours, charges $43 again, and caps you at three attempts within one year of filing. After three failures you owe 30 more education hours for one failed section, 60 for both.

California is the opposite posture: "There is no limitation on the number of examinations you may take during the two-year period following the date of the filing of your original application." With one caveat, also its own: do not submit a new application and fee before your result arrives.

Georgia will not rebook the same day but can seat you again as soon as the Friday, at the full $175 each time, and the District of Columbia gives six months to retake the failed portion. Florida lets a failed candidate review the questions they got wrong within 21 days, the best post mortem here.

None of this is guessable from a national article, this one included. Pull your own state's bulletin. Testing in my market, the sequence is in the walkthrough on how to become a real estate agent in Virginia.

Do you need a paid prep course

Sometimes, and less often than the advertising suggests. The questions above are free, and your state's candidate handbook is free and is the only document here written by the people who score your exam.

Buy prep when one of three things is true. You failed once and cannot say which topic sank you, you are weak on math, or you will not study without a progress bar and a deadline.

Do not buy when you already own it. The CE Shop includes Exam Prep Edge in every pre-licensing package except its most basic, and Colibri sells packages with exam prep built in, so check the school account you already paid for first. If you have not picked a school, the ownership map is in the comparison of the best online real estate schools.

And do not buy on question count, because there is no question count. Not one vendor here publishes how many practice questions it holds. PrepAgent says "thousands." The CE Shop advertises "unlimited practice exams," a claim about attempts, not bank size. Any figure you are quoted came from an affiliate.

PrepAgent, what you get and do not

PrepAgent is the brand you meet first, and Aceable owns it. Aceable's brands page lists five: Aceable, AceableAgent, Aceable Mortgage, Aceable Insurance and PrepAgent. AceableAgent says it plainly: "AceableAgent and PrepAgent are owned by Aceable, the leader in online licensing education." Buy the AceableAgent course, then PrepAgent for a second opinion, and you have bought twice from one company. That course is covered in the AceableAgent review.

Pricing on 21 August 2026 was $59 for one week, $79 for one month and $99 for three months, with an identical feature list on all three tiers. The only thing you buy more of is time.

What you get, from the sign up page: national and state specific questions, interactive flashcards, a vocabulary worksheet, an ebook Aceable calls 100 plus pages, hundreds of hours of recorded webinars, 75 plus animated videos, hours of audio, and live webinars Aceable says run five times weekly. For anyone who learns by watching and listening, that is the deepest library here.

What you do not get, first: state specific content in all fifty states. The sign up page says "We support all 50 states in the United States." The same company's FAQ names 28 states, introduced with "PrepAgent is a great study tool for the national exam and offers state specific content for the following states." Both sit on prepagent.com. Read it as national coverage everywhere, state specific banks in 28 states.

On ratings, tread carefully. PrepAgent scored 2.5 out of 5 on Trustpilot on 21 August 2026 across 15 reviews, eleven one star and two five star, nothing in between. Against a company claiming more than 300,000 students, 15 reviews is not a sample and not a reliable signal. The 4.8 from 10,988 reviews you may see quoted belongs to AceableAgent and covers the pre-licensing course. No mobile app is claimed on any PrepAgent page I reached.

CompuCram, and who really owns it

CompuCram's BBB profile lists the parent as Hondros Education Group, also a Colibri company, and the two guarantees carry the same four conditions in nearly the same words.

Pricing on 21 August 2026, direct: $69 state only, $69 national only, $109 national plus state. Access runs 180 days, and 30, 60 or 90 day extensions are sold separately.

The product is narrower than PrepAgent's and does not pretend otherwise. It markets interactive study tools, dynamic practice tests and simulated exams, flashcards, and a Readiness Indicator described as giving continuous feedback as you study. No video library is claimed and the standalone product has no live instruction. The state index lists all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

The product page claims "86.5% of CompuCram users pass their licensing exam the first time" and that over 500,000 students have passed first time. No methodology, no denominator, no date, no auditor, and a BBB complainant disputed the pass rate on 26 January 2024. Treat it as marketing.

The CE Shop and Exam Prep Edge

Exam Prep Edge is The CE Shop's product. It gets misattributed to Colibri constantly, including by pages that rank well for this search. Colibri's products are Exam Prep, Exam Prep Live and Exam Prep Ultimate, so if a table puts Exam Prep Edge in Colibri's column, stop reading it.

Now the awkward part. On 21 August 2026 theceshop.com returned HTTP 405 to nearly every automated request: the exam prep page, the pass guarantee page, the legal page, every state pricing page and the Exam Prep Edge Pass Guarantee affidavit PDF. Two paths resolved, a 2019 press release and its own encyclopedia section, and that is the whole evidence base here.

So the exact price is unverified. The only figure The CE Shop publishes anywhere I could open is a range on its own encyclopedia page: real estate exam prep, $50 to $125. Per state and per tier prices could not be checked, and I would rather say so than borrow an affiliate's number.

The features, from that page: an initial assessment, unlimited practice exams, content based on your state's candidate handbook, individual lessons per topic, an interactive dashboard, a mobile friendly interface and support when you need it. Video, flashcards and live instruction do not appear, which is absence of evidence, not evidence of absence.

It sells both ways: HousingWire, published 12 February 2024 and updated 1 July 2025, reports Exam Prep Edge is included in all but the most basic pre-licensing package, or can be bought separately. On reputation, print both numbers or neither. On 21 August 2026 The CE Shop showed 4.5 out of 5 across 8,811 Trustpilot reviews and 1 out of 5 across 16 BBB reviews, at the same moment. Both were true, and they measure different populations of reviewer. It is not owned by Colibri or Aceable, but Waud Capital Partners completed a recapitalization announced 22 December 2020, so independent needs that qualifier.

Kaplan and Colibri, priced

Kaplan sells parts, not a subscription, and Kaplan, Inc. sits inside Graham Holdings Company. On the California salesperson pages the exam prep package was $199, the Live Online Learning Hub version also $199, a Drill and Practice QBank $69 and a math OnDemand course $29.

On the national pages the Real Estate Study Package was $99, holding an audio version of The Language of Real Estate, the reference itself with over 2,800 terms, and 700 plus flashcards. Kaplan lists an exam prep app without publishing its price, and publishes no pass or satisfaction guarantee on any exam prep page I reached.

Colibri's ladder, list prices from its California pages, is Exam Prep $115, Exam Prep Live $239 and Exam Prep Ultimate $399, and prices are state specific. Exam Prep is the CompuCram engine, Live adds a Q&A webinar series with local instructors, and Ultimate adds six one hour crammer webinars, monthly live Q&A and a 30 hour post-license course, an odd thing to bundle into exam prep and worth understanding first, because post-license course requirements vary by state and carry their own deadlines.

Note the arithmetic. Colibri Exam Prep lists at $115 and CompuCram national plus state at $109, the same engine from the same owner. Colibri publishes no access duration; the underlying CompuCram entitlement is 180 days. Discount codes were live on nearly everything that day, so list prices are printed here.

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The pass guarantees, read properly

Three of these vendors have something they call a guarantee, and only two are about passing anything. PrepAgent's is the satisfaction refund above: five days from purchase, no exam attempt, no proof of failure, and only on the 1 week, 1 month and 3 month plans. It is a returns policy, and a short one.

CompuCram's is real, with four gates on its own guarantee page. Buy a qualifying package. "Complete at least three simulated exams with passing grades of 80% or higher." "Take your state licensing exam within 30 days of completing the curriculum." Then "Email your exam results to CompuCram within 30 days of the failed attempt," with a photo of the failed result. It applies only to purchases through CompuCram.com, extensions are excluded, and "The states of Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, and Tennessee do not permit guarantees on passing the state real estate license exam." Separately there is a full refund inside five business days if you do not like it.

Colibri's Pass or Don't Pay is the same mechanism in nearly the same words. "Within exam prep, complete at least three simulated exams with a passing grade of 80% or higher." "Sit for your exam within 30 days of completing our exam prep curriculum." "Email us with a copy of your first-try exam results within 30 days of the failed exam attempt." Same four excluded states, though Colibri's own pages disagree: the Exam Prep Ultimate page names only Florida, New Jersey and Tennessee while the FAQ and the Pass or Don't Pay page name all four. Treat all four as operative.

The 80 percent condition catches buyers. Failing the real exam is not enough: you must show three simulated exams passed at 80 or better and have sat the real thing inside thirty days of finishing. Most people who feel cheated by a pass guarantee never cleared that gate.

The CE Shop's terms could not be verified. Its pass guarantee page and its Exam Prep Edge Pass Guarantee affidavit PDF both returned HTTP 405 on every attempt, and a claim needing a sworn affidavit is not a one click refund. HousingWire describes two different refund objects, the cost of the licensing exam for bundled students and the full cost of the course for standalone buyers, with restrictions and exclusions on both. I have not read the conditions and will not paraphrase from memory.

Kaplan has no guarantee. And AceableAgent's Ace or Don't Pay attaches to the pre-license course, not to PrepAgent, so do not buy PrepAgent expecting cover.

What is genuinely free

Start with the myth. Pearson VUE's own practice tests are not free. Its page says "The practice tests costs $19.95 USD per one-time test." There are two, one for brokers and one for sales, and once bought you have 30 days to start. They cover general content only, and Pearson VUE states that "State-specific practice tests are not available." Any article saying Pearson VUE gives these away free has not opened the page.

PrepAgent runs a free sample, nine questions, labelled Question 1 of 9 in the tool. Whether an email is required is not stated. The purpose is disclosed: it funnels to the paid plans.

CompuCram's free test is email gated, asking for email address, first name and last name before it shows you anything, and not saying how many questions you get. The CE Shop has a page titled Take a Free Real Estate Exam Prep Test, whose terms and gating could not be verified.

Then the free resource nobody markets, because nobody earns a commission on it: the candidate handbooks. PSI and Pearson VUE publish a bulletin for every programme they run, free, no email, no account. Each carries the exact content outline, question count, time limit, passing score and fees for your state, and every number in the tables above came from those documents. The catch is that they hold no practice questions, which is what the thirty at the top of this page are for.

Prep is not pre-licensing education

This confuses more new licensees than anything else here. Exam prep does not count toward your required hours.

The Arkansas Real Estate Commission states it outright: "Courses identified as 'Exam Prep' courses generally do not fulfill the pre-license requirement." Every other state rule I checked says the same thing structurally. Colorado defines its requirement as six named courses totalling 168 hours, from Real Estate Law and Practice at 48 hours down to Trust Accounts and Record-Keeping at 8 hours. Exam prep is nowhere on it, because that list is a list of courses, not of study aids.

PrepAgent's own page says the first step is your state's required pre-licensing coursework, and points you at parent company Aceable to buy it. It claims no hour credit anywhere.

One honest caveat. I could not source a categorical fifty state statement that no state accepts exam prep hours, and Arkansas hedges with the word generally. What is safe to say is that regulators define pre-license credit as named courses with fixed hours, exam prep is not among them, and at least one commission says so plainly. Budget those hours first, and the guide to how long real estate school takes sets out the sequence.

What I would actually buy

First, nothing. Download your state's candidate bulletin and read the content outline: free, and written by the people who score you. Then work the thirty questions above and any free sample you can reach without paying. If you are scoring in the eighties on national material, a question bank buys reassurance.

Second, check what you already own, because a school package that included exam prep is already paid for. If you still need a bank and a deadline, CompuCram at $109 for national plus state is the plainest deal here. The price is visible, access runs 180 days, and the guarantee is at least mechanically claimable if you buy direct, sit within 30 days, hold three simulated exams at 80 or better and do not live in Florida, Michigan, New Jersey or Tennessee. Do not also buy Colibri Exam Prep at $115: same engine, same owner, higher price.

If you learn by watching and listening rather than drilling, PrepAgent's $79 month is the cheapest way into the biggest library here. Buy it with clear eyes: not a pass guarantee, a five day refund window, and national material only if your state is outside the 28.

Kaplan suits a specific hole rather than a syllabus, and a $29 math module is rational if math is the only thing beating you. I cannot recommend Exam Prep Edge on price, because the price is not verifiable. If you already have it bundled, use it rather than buying twice.

Whatever you buy, do not choose on question count, because nobody publishes one. Choose on a price you can see, terms you can read and whether your state is covered. That is the habit I hand new agents inside my real estate coaching program, because the exam is the cheapest problem you will face this year.

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Frequently asked questions

Are these real estate practice exam questions free?

Yes. All thirty questions on this page are free, they run in your browser, and no email address, account or card is required. They cover national portion content only, because state licence law varies and only your state's candidate handbook can teach it.

How many questions are on the real estate exam?

It depends on your state. Across the bulletins checked here the range was 100 to 152 questions and 180 to 240 minutes. Texas sits 125 items in 240 minutes across both portions, Connecticut 110 items in 165 minutes, Georgia 152 questions, Florida 100 in 3.5 hours and California 150 in 3 hours.

What score do I need to pass the real estate exam?

Between 70 and 75 percent in the states checked here, set per portion where the exam has two portions. California requires at least 70 percent, Connecticut 70 percent for salespersons and 75 for brokers, Florida 75 points out of 100, and Texas 56 of 80 national items plus 28 of 40 state items.

Does PrepAgent have a pass guarantee?

No. PrepAgent offers a satisfaction refund, not a pass guarantee. Its own FAQ says to contact the company within 5 days of purchase for a refund, and that the guarantee applies only to the 1 week, 1 month and 3 month plans. No exam attempt or proof of failure is required, so that window usually closes before a buyer sits the exam.

Is CompuCram the same company as Colibri Real Estate?

They share an owner. CompuCram's privacy notice states that CompuCram is part of the Colibri Group portfolio of companies and brands, and Colibri's own exam prep page says its courses are powered by CompuCram. Their guarantees carry the same four conditions, including three simulated exams at 80 percent or higher.

Does Pearson VUE offer free practice tests?

No. Pearson VUE's own page prices its real estate practice tests at $19.95 each as a one time purchase, with 30 days to start. They cover general content only, and Pearson VUE states that state specific practice tests are not available.

How many practice questions does each exam prep course include?

No vendor in this article publishes a number. PrepAgent says thousands, The CE Shop advertises unlimited practice exams, which describes attempts rather than bank size, and CompuCram, Colibri and Kaplan publish nothing. Any specific figure you see quoted came from an affiliate, not the vendor.

Is real estate exam prep the same as a pre-licensing course?

No, and exam prep does not count toward your required hours. The Arkansas Real Estate Commission states that courses identified as Exam Prep courses generally do not fulfill the pre-license requirement, and states define pre-license credit as named courses with fixed hours. PrepAgent itself points buyers to a separate company for pre-licensing coursework.

Every price, count, quotation, rating and exam figure here was captured from the named source on 21 August 2026 and is subject to change. Exam structures, fees, passing scores and retake rules are set by each state and its testing vendor, which is why every figure names its state. Items recorded as not published or could not be verified are recorded that way deliberately. The practice questions are study material written for this page, not actual exam questions from any state, vendor or licensing body. This article is independent commentary, is not endorsed by any company named, and is educational content only. Confirm pricing, guarantee terms and exam requirements with the vendor and your state real estate commission before relying on anything here.