How many questions are on the real estate exam?

The national portion is 85 items — 80 scored plus 5 unscored pretest items — in 150 minutes. Your state portion is separate and its length is set by your state.

What is the passing score on the real estate exam?

There is no national passing score. Each state commission sets its own and they are not expressed in the same units: Texas publishes a number of correct answers, California a percentage.

Are these real exam questions?

No, and nobody publishing real ones would be doing so lawfully. These are original questions written for study, built to the exam’s published content outline so the weighting matches.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up, no paywall and nothing to buy. The questions reshuffle every time you retake a test.

Does this count toward my pre-licensing hours?

No. Qualifying education has to come from a provider your state has approved, and this is exam preparation rather than a course.

Free real estate practice test

145 questions across the eight content areas of the national exam outline, in the proportions the exam itself uses. Every answer comes with an explanation of why it is the answer.

Mixed national practice Question 1 of 10

An owner spends $40,000 on a swimming pool and the property’s value rises by $15,000. The principle at work is:

Practice one area at a time

The mixed test tells you where you stand. These tell you what to do about it. The number on each card is how many of the exam’s 80 scored items that area carries — which is also, roughly, how much of your study time it deserves.

Property and land use 11 What counts as real property, how it is described, and who else has rights in it Ownership and title 9 Estates, how title moves from one owner to the next, and what recording does Valuation and appraisal 11 What value means, the three approaches to estimating it, and where a CMA stops Contracts and agency 16 What makes a contract enforceable, and what a licensee owes the person they represent Brokerage and fair housing 10 Listing agreements, supervision, fair housing, and the ways a licensee gets sued Disclosures and environment 9 Hazards a licensee must know by name, and what has to be disclosed to whom Financing and settlement 7 How the purchase gets paid for, who regulates the lending, and what happens at closing Real estate math 7 Seven calculation items — area, value, commission, loan costs, prorations, investment

Why the weighting matters more than the question count

Most free practice tests are a pile of questions in no particular proportion. The exam is not: it publishes a content outline that says how many items come from each area, and those numbers are uneven enough to change how you should study.

Contracts and agency is sixteen items — one in five. Real estate maths is seven, tied for the smallest area on the paper, and it is the one candidates spend most of their anxiety on. A study plan built from the outline looks quite different from one built from instinct.

These banks are sized and weighted to that outline, which is why the mixed test above deals more contracts questions than maths ones. That is not an accident and it is not a shortage.

Your state portion is a separate exam

In most states the license exam has two portions taken in one appointment and scored separately: the national portion, which is what this page prepares you for, and a state portion covering that state’s own license law. No national question bank covers the second one, including this one.

A few states do it differently again. California gives one combined exam with no separately scored national portion at all.

California exam Texas exam National vs state, explained

Frequently asked

How many questions are on the real estate exam?: The national portion is 85 items — 80 scored plus 5 unscored pretest items — in 150 minutes. Your state portion is separate and its length is set by your state.
What is the passing score on the real estate exam?: There is no national passing score. Each state commission sets its own and they are not expressed in the same units: Texas publishes a number of correct answers, California a percentage.
Are these real exam questions?: No, and nobody publishing real ones would be doing so lawfully. These are original questions written for study, built to the exam’s published content outline so the weighting matches.
Do I need an account?: No. There is no sign-up, no paywall and nothing to buy. The questions reshuffle every time you retake a test.
Does this count toward my pre-licensing hours?: No. Qualifying education has to come from a provider your state has approved, and this is exam preparation rather than a course.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the date it was read. Requirements change; if a source has moved on since that date, the source is right and this page is out of date.

Pearson VUE — Texas Real Estate Candidate Handbook (#094400, January 2026) Read August 22, 2026

Independent exam preparation. Real Estate Exam Bank is not a state-approved pre-licensing course and completing anything here does not satisfy any state education requirement. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorized by any state real estate commission, Pearson VUE, or PSI. Practice questions here are original study material, not the official exam.