Florida real estate exam
Florida does not split its exam into a national portion and a Florida portion. There is one 100-question sales associate examination, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation writes it rather than a national vendor, and Chapter 475 of the Florida Statutes runs through the whole of it rather than sitting in a separate section at the end.
The exam
One paper, 100 questions, three and a half hours, and 75 points to pass. Because the Department builds the examination to its own nineteen-area outline rather than to a national one, a national-only question bank leaves real gaps here — licence law and Commission rules alone are 8 percent of the paper, and authorised relationships another 7.
| Exam | Items | Time | To pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales associate | 100 | 210 min | 75 points of 100 |
| Mutual recognition — Florida law exam | 40 | not published | 30 points of 40 |
Delivered by Pearson VUE, on contract to the DBPR Bureau of Education and Testing. Every figure here comes from the documents listed at the foot of this page, with the date each was read.
Requirements and fees
- Minimum age
- 18, under § 475.17(1)(a) F.S.
- General education
- A high school diploma or its equivalent
- Qualifying education
- 63 hours of 50 minutes each, inclusive of the examination
- Commission Course I. The rule counts fifty-minute hours, so 63 hours is about 52½ clock hours of instruction — and a distance course must be delivered on a classroom-hour-per-classroom-hour basis.
- End-of-course examination
- 70 percent, administered by the school
- The school may not issue the completion notice if the student missed more than 8 hours of instruction. This examination is separate from, and earlier than, the state examination.
- Course validity
- Two years from the date of completion
- An expired certificate is refused at the test centre even if your authorisation to test is still live.
- Application fee
- $11 for a sales associate
- 61J2-1.011 F.A.C. A broker application is the same $11.
- Initial licence fee
- $46.75 for a sales associate
- $54.00 for a broker.
- Biennial renewal
- $64.00 for a sales associate
- $72.00 for a broker.
- Post-licence education
- 45 hours before the first renewal
- Miss it and the licence goes null and void — not inactive, void — and the whole 63-hour course and state examination have to be done again. Only a four-year degree in real estate exempts you.
- Pilot questions
- A small number, unidentified and unscored
- Extra time is added for them, so they do not come out of the three and a half hours.
- Mutual recognition
- Ten states, and a 40-question Florida law examination
- Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Rhode Island and West Virginia. You must not be a Florida resident at the time of application. Colorado, Indiana, Oklahoma and Tennessee agreements have all been dissolved.
- Review after a failure
- Within 21 days, at a test centre, on incorrect questions only
- You get half the examination time to review and may challenge in writing during the session — but only during it. Candidates who take the examination remotely give up the right to review.
What this page does not tell you
- The examination fee. The Department’s own booklet does not print one, and Pearson VUE’s Florida page does not either. The booklet goes as far as saying that DBPR application and licence fees “are being reduced to offset the increases in examination fees” and that new fees take effect on 3 January — without naming either the old or the new amount. Any figure you find for this is somebody’s recollection, so this page does not carry one.
- The broker examination’s shape. Florida publishes a separate Candidate Information Booklet for the broker examination and it has not been opened for this page. The sales associate figures above do not transfer to it.
Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC), Division of Real Estate, DBPR
Practice the material this exam is built on
These questions cover the general real estate principles every state tests — the eight content areas of the national outline. They do not cover Florida statute and commission rule, which no national bank does; for that, the state’s own published material is the source.
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One paper changes what a national question bank is worth
In a split state you can study the national portion first and know that every hour of it counts, because Pearson VUE and PSI build that portion to one outline in every state they serve. Florida has no such portion. The Department’s nineteen content areas mix general practice and Florida law throughout: real estate contracts 12 percent, brokerage activities and procedures 12, residential mortgages 9, appraisal 8, property rights 8, authorised relationships and disclosures 7, titles and deeds 7.
Add the four explicitly statutory areas — licence law and qualifications 6, licence law and Commission rules 2, violations and penalties 3, federal and state laws 3 — and 14 percent of the paper is law that no national bank contains. The general material on this site covers most of the remaining ground; the Chapter 475 corners it does not.
Seventy-five points is seventy-five questions
The booklet is explicit: the examination “shall be graded based on 100 points for a perfect examination” and a candidate scoring 75 points or higher has passed. All questions are equally weighted, so the target is arithmetic — 75 right, 25 wrong, and no scaling in between.
That puts Florida with Virginia and against Pennsylvania. It also means a practice score on a 100-question paper is directly comparable, which is not true in a state that reports a scaled 75.
The 63 hours are not 63 hours
Rule 61J2-3.008 defines Course I as “63 hours of 50 minutes each, inclusive of examination”. Fifty-minute hours are the unit throughout Florida’s education rules, so the real figure is roughly 52½ clock hours, and the end-of-course examination is inside it rather than added to it.
Two consequences worth knowing before you buy a course. You must pass that school examination at 70 percent to get the completion notice at all, and the notice is void if you missed more than 8 hours of instruction. The certificate then lasts two years — after which the course, not just the state exam, has to be taken again.
Frequently asked
- How many questions are on the Florida real estate exam?
- 100 multiple-choice questions for a sales associate, with three and a half hours to answer them. There is no separate national portion — Florida gives one combined examination covering nineteen content areas.
- What score do you need to pass the Florida real estate exam?
- 75 points out of 100. Every question is worth one point and all are weighted equally, so 75 correct answers passes and 74 does not.
- How long is the Florida pre-licence course?
- 63 hours for a sales associate — but hours of fifty minutes each, inclusive of the end-of-course examination, which is about 52½ clock hours. You need 70 percent on that school examination, and the completion certificate is good for two years.
- Does Florida have a national portion like Texas or Georgia?
- No. Florida writes and grades its own single examination through the DBPR Bureau of Education and Testing. Pearson VUE schedules and delivers it but does not build it, which is why a national-only question bank leaves gaps on Chapter 475.
- Can I use my licence from another state in Florida?
- Florida has mutual recognition with ten states — Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Rhode Island and West Virginia. You must hold a current active licence there, must not be a Florida resident when you apply, and must still pass a 40-question Florida law examination at 30 points or better.
Other states
Sources
Key factual claims on this page are grounded in the documents below, with the day each was read. Rules and requirements change — open the source if you need today's wording.
- Florida DBPR — Candidate Information Booklet, Real Estate Sales Associate Examination (effective January 2025) Read September 3, 2026
- 61J2-3.008 F.A.C. — Pre-licensing Education for Broker and Sales Associate Applicants Read September 3, 2026
- 61J2-1.011 F.A.C. — License Fees Read September 3, 2026
- § 475.17, Florida Statutes — Qualifications for practice Read September 3, 2026
- Florida Real Estate Commission — Division of Real Estate licensee information Read September 3, 2026
Page facts last verified September 3, 2026.
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