California Real Estate Salesperson
Practice Exams
Twelve distinct 150-question exams under the real 3-hour clock, scored against the real 70 percent pass mark. Free, no sign-up, every answer explained and cited.
Best scores are stored on this device only.
What the real salesperson exam looks like
Every exam here mirrors these conditions. The weighting comes from the DRE Salesperson Examination Content outline.
| Content area | Share of exam | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Property Ownership and Land Use Controls | 15% | 23 |
| Laws of Agency and Fiduciary Duties | 17% | 26 |
| Property Valuation and Financial Analysis | 14% | 21 |
| Financing | 9% | 13 |
| Transfer of Property | 8% | 12 |
| Practice of Real Estate and Disclosures | 25% | 37 |
| Contracts | 12% | 18 |
How to use these exams
Sit the first exam timed and untutored, as a diagnostic. Your results page ranks the content areas by how many points each would recover on the real 150-question test, which tells you where study time pays. Drill your weakest area untimed, then sit the next exam fresh. Because all twelve exams are distinct, your score movement between them measures real learning rather than memorization.
The state exam samples differently every sitting, so no two candidates see the same test. What stays fixed is the outline: seven content areas in published proportions, with Practice of Real Estate and Disclosures alone worth a quarter of your score. These exams hold that outline constant so your practice matches the odds.
What exam day allows
The state exam is multiple choice with four options per question, and the DRE lets you bring a silent, battery-operated, pocket-sized calculator so long as it is not programmable. The Department supplies the scratch paper, because computations may only be written on paper it furnishes. Cell phones are barred from the room entirely, including during breaks. Every math question here is solvable on a basic calculator for that reason.
What the salesperson exam covers
The heaviest areas are Practice of Real Estate and Disclosures at 25 percent, Laws of Agency at 17 percent, and Property Ownership at 15 percent. Together they are more than half the exam. Trust fund handling, fair housing, the Transfer Disclosure Statement, agency relationships, and disclosure timing rules dominate, with valuation math and financing making up most of the rest.