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What's on This Practice Exam

The California Real Estate Broker License Examination is a 200-question test with a 240-minute time limit — and you need to score at least 75% to pass. That means getting 150 questions right while managing your time and staying sharp across seven distinct topic areas. Preparation matters, and realistic practice is one of the most effective ways to get there.

This page gives you two ways to practice:

• Free practice exam: Get started immediately with 10 questions per attempt drawn from a limited question pool. You can retake it as many times as you like — it's a great way to get a feel for the question style, test your baseline knowledge, and decide whether you're ready to go deeper.
• Full practice exam (paid): This is your serious prep tool. It mirrors the real exam exactly — 200 questions, a 240-minute timer, and questions pulled from a pool of 62+ items so every attempt delivers a unique set. You'll never see the exact same exam twice, which means more exposure to the material and less chance of memorizing your way through a fixed question set. All questions are built around the official topic breakdown provided by the California exam authority.

Topics Covered

Your broker exam spans seven topic areas, each testing a distinct layer of real estate knowledge:

• Property Ownership and Land Use Controls and Regulations (30 questions): Covers types of property ownership, easements, encumbrances, zoning laws, and government regulations affecting land use.
• Laws of Agency and Fiduciary Duties (34 questions): Examines how agency relationships are created and terminated, broker and agent obligations, disclosure duties, and the legal standards brokers are held to.
• Property Valuation and Financial Analysis (28 questions): Tests your ability to understand appraisal methods, market value concepts, comparative market analysis, and investment performance metrics.
• Financing (18 questions): Covers mortgage types, lending regulations, loan qualification, and the financial instruments common in California real estate transactions.
• Transfer of Property (16 questions): Includes deeds, title insurance, escrow procedures, and the legal process of conveying ownership from one party to another.
• Practice of Real Estate and Disclosures (50 questions): The largest section — addresses day-to-day brokerage operations, mandatory disclosures, fair housing laws, property management, and specialty practice areas.
• Contracts (24 questions): Tests your knowledge of contract formation, validity, performance, breach, and the specific contracts used in California real estate transactions.

How This Practice Exam Helps

Knowing the material is one thing — performing under exam conditions is another. The full practice exam puts you in timed mode so you can practice pacing yourself across 200 questions in 240 minutes. After each attempt, you'll see your score and a topic-by-topic breakdown, so you can quickly identify which areas need more attention and focus your study time where it counts.

Because the full exam draws from a pool of 62+ questions and never repeats the same combination twice, repeated attempts genuinely build your knowledge rather than just reinforcing a single question set. Every question reflects the official topic weightings — so what you practice is directly relevant to what you'll face on exam day.

Start with the free exam to get comfortable with the format. When you're ready to prep in earnest, the full practice exam gives you the depth and realism you need to walk in confident.

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