How hard is the Missouri Real Estate Broker exam?

You need to score 75% on each portion on the Missouri Real Estate Broker exam.

The Missouri Real Estate Broker exam has 165 questions, with a 270-minute time limit.

The Missouri Real Estate Commission (MREC), within the Division of Professional Registration, licenses brokers and salespersons and approves the pre-license education and exam.

Broker applicants must have held an active Missouri salesperson license for at least 24 of the 30 months immediately preceding application, and complete the 48-hour broker pre-examination course. The application must be submitted within six months of completing that course.

PSI administers both portions in one 270-minute appointment: a 90-item national portion scored to 100 points in 150 minutes, and a 75-item Missouri state portion scored to 75 points in 120 minutes. You need 75% on each. The state portion is the largest of any state in this family — nearly double the 40-item salesperson state portion — and Missouri publishes a separate broker state outline. The national broker exam is scenario-based, with some items carrying more than four options and one best answer scored up to two points; the Missouri state portion is ordinary four-option multiple choice.

PSI bulletin 4673 sets six areas: Licenses (7 items), Educational Requirements (2), Business Conduct and Practices (40), Disciplinary Proceedings (8), Listing, Offer, and Closing Contract Forms and Costs (12), and Brokerage Relationships (6). Business Conduct alone is 53% of the state portion, so most of your study time belongs in Chapter 339, RSMo and the Commission's rules at 20 CSR 2250-8.

Twelve hours during each two-year license period, at least three of which must be a core course the Commission designates and posts on its website. For the 2026-2028 renewal period the designated core topic is Fair Housing, so a broker taking only one core course must take Fair Housing. Broker licenses expire 30 June of each even-numbered year (salesperson licenses expire 30 September).

Focus your time on the heaviest content areas, then drill practice questions by topic until you consistently clear the standard you need. PrepPass has 491+ free Missouri Real Estate Broker practice questions with full explanations and a timed mock exam.