Real Estate License Exams For Dummies with Online Practice Tests, 4th Edition

Chapter 2

Using Successful Study and Test-Taking Techniques

IN THIS CHAPTER

Figuring out how to get ready for the exam

Understanding tips on how to pass the exam with ease

I want to share something with you that I tell all my students on the first day of class. If you read through Chapter 3 and then the rest of the book, you discover that real estate sales and brokerage is much more than just driving people around and showing them houses. As you read this book, you also find out that you have to know much more information than you originally thought. At that point, your head may explode. Just remember, however, that what you’re tackling is real estate sales and brokerage, not rocket science or brain surgery. It’s doable by anyone with reasonable intelligence and a decent command of the language. You’ve already established that you’re intelligent, because you’ve already taken the most important step as far as I’m concerned: You bought this book. So now, all things being equal, with the right preparation, you should do just fine on the state exam.

This chapter is all about preparing to take the state real estate exam and then taking and passing the exam. In the first part of the chapter, I talk about ways to prepare for the exam. In the second part, I give you some hints for doing ...