How hard is the New Jersey Real Estate Broker exam?

You need to score 70% (PSI bulletin 1663: “70% (84 correct)”) on the New Jersey Real Estate Broker exam.

The New Jersey Real Estate Broker exam has 115 questions, with a 240-minute time limit.

The New Jersey Real Estate Commission (NJREC), within the Department of Banking and Insurance, licenses brokers, broker-salespersons and salespersons. NJREC contracts with PSI to deliver the licensing exams.

Broker candidates must have worked three years on a full-time basis as a salesperson and completed the 150 hours of broker prelicensure education. The order matters: the 90-hour general course must be completed first, then the two 30-hour courses, and only then may the experience approval application go to NJREC with its $25 fee. PSI will not seat a broker candidate until the Commission has approved that experience.

It is one integrated 115-question computer-based exam in a single 4-hour session, covering the national/general body of knowledge and New Jersey law together, plus 5 to 10 unscored experimental items. The pass mark is 70%, which PSI's bulletin states as 84 correct; the 115 questions are worth 120 points because some national broker items score up to two points.

No. New Jersey uses one integrated exam with a single pass mark, so unlike states that score the national and state halves separately, there is no state-only cut score to clear. In practice a candidate can do poorly on New Jersey law and still pass on national strength — which is exactly why the 40 New Jersey items are worth studying rather than gambling on.

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