Texas Real Estate Sales Agent Exam - State Portion Practice Exam

The state portion of the Texas sales agent exam is Texas law: what the Texas Real Estate Commission may do, who needs a license, how license holders must behave, how agency and brokerage relationships are formed and disclosed, how TREC's promulgated contract forms work, and a set of Texas-specific statutes on homesteads, liens, estates, landlord-tenant matters and foreclosure. The questions are rule questions. They ask for the exact deadline, the exact acreage cap, the exact font size, the exact exception written into a statute or a TREC rule.

You have two ways to practice here. The free practice exam gives you 10 questions per attempt, and you can retake it as often as you like. The full practice exam gives you 40 questions and allows 90 minutes, drawn fresh from our question bank on every attempt, so repeat sittings are not the same paper twice. The full practice exam follows the official outline's topic weights. The exam is closed book, so practice closed book.

Score your practice attempt against the real standard: 28 correct answers out of 40 scored questions. Read a first attempt as a diagnostic, not a prediction. What matters on attempt one is the shape of the result, not the total.

Take the topic breakdown apart before you study anything. Because the outline weights are uneven, the same number of missed questions hurts differently depending on where they fall. Agency and Brokerage carries 11 items and Standards of Conduct and Contracts carry 9 each, so those three account for the bulk of the scored state questions. Commission Duties and Powers and Licensing carry 3 items apiece. Repairing a weak spot in a heavy topic moves your total far more than perfecting a light one, so study in descending weight order until the heavy topics are reliable.

Then look at how you missed. A question missed because you picked a plausible number you never learned is a memorization gap with a quick fix. A question missed because you misread which party or which deadline the stem asked about is a reading problem, and rereading the rule will not solve it.

Retake the full practice exam after each study block. Because every attempt draws fresh, a rising score across attempts reflects knowledge rather than recall of one paper. Use the free practice exam (10 questions) for short daily review between full sittings.

Two clocks in the same trust account rule. Money received must be deposited or delivered by a set time (22 TAC §535.146(b)(3)), while money the broker has become entitled to must be removed by a different, much later deadline (TREC Rules, 22 TAC §535.146(c)(5)). Standards of Conduct questions deliberately offer the deposit deadline as a distractor in the removal question. Learn the two deadlines as a pair with their direction of travel.

Mistaking common practice for a statutory minimum. In Texas Agency and Brokerage, the minimum services a broker must provide under an exclusive agreement are answering the party's questions and presenting offers (TRELA (Occ. Code Ch. 1101), Section 1101.557(b)). Market analyses, MLS advertising and closing attendance are negotiated, not required. The same trap appears in the title advisory question, where a survey or an inspection report is offered instead of the statutory alternative of having an abstract examined by an attorney (Texas Occupations Code (TRELA), §1101.652(b)(29)).

Assuming a missed step ends the contract. Under TREC No. 20-19, One to Four Family Residential Contract (Resale), Paragraph 5D, failing to deliver the option fee on time does not terminate the contract; it removes the unrestricted right to terminate. Failing to obtain a new survey does not refund earnest money or shift the duty to the seller; it costs a specific termination right under Paragraph 6C(2). In Contracts questions, "the contract automatically terminates" is almost always the trap answer.

Skipping the words that limit a rule. The duty to submit later offers ends only when the principal agreed in writing in advance (22 TAC §535.156(a)), and the fiduciary duty to convey known information yields only when disclosure is prohibited by other law (TREC Rules, 22 TAC §535.2(b)). Options that substitute an accepted contract, an expired option period or the offer amount are wrong because they drop the written or statutory qualifier.

Confusing homestead numbers. Special Topics pairs the tax exemption acreage cap (Tax Code Sec. 11.13(j)(1)) with the creditor-protection figure as a distractor, and pairs the rural lien acreage limit (Property Code Sec. 53.022(d)) with both. Write the figures in one table with their statute, and read every stem for whether it asks about taxation, creditor protection or liens.

Losing time on reading rather than recall. 90 minutes for 50 questions (40 scored, 10 unscored) is about 1 minute 48 seconds per question. That is enough for a careful read of a two-sentence scenario, but not enough to reconstruct a rule you never learned. Mark and move on.