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Wisconsin Real Estate Broker Exam Cheat Sheet (2026)

A free, printable Wisconsin Real Estate Broker exam cheat sheet: the 57 highest-yield points to know, grouped into 17 sections that follow the exam's content areas, each section with its published weight.

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  • Last updated: September 2026.
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Property Ownership

10% of the exam
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  • Real vs. Personal Property and the Bundle of Rights
  • Estates in Land
  • Forms of Co-Ownership

Land Use Controls and Regulations

5% of the exam
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  • Government Powers Over Land
  • Zoning and Public Land-Use Tools
  • Private Land-Use Controls

Valuation and Market Analysis

8% of the exam
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  • Value, Price, and Cost
  • The Three Approaches to Value
  • CMA, BPO, and the Limits of a License

Financing

9% of the exam
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  • Notes and Security Instruments
  • Loan Types and Common Clauses
  • Federal Lending Laws

Contracts

19% of the exam
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  • Essential Elements and Validity
  • Offer, Acceptance, and Counteroffers
  • Common Real Estate Contracts
  • Performance, Breach, and Remedies

General Principles of Agency

13% of the exam
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  • Creating Agency and Fiduciary Duties
  • Clients, Customers, Single and Dual Agency
  • Broker Supervision and Vicarious Liability

Property Disclosures

7% of the exam
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  • The Duty to Disclose Material Facts
  • Latent vs. Patent Defects
  • Federally Required Disclosures

Property Management

5% of the exam
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  • The Management Agreement and Trust Funds
  • Leasehold Estates and Lease Types
  • Landlord and Tenant Rights

Transfer of Title

6% of the exam
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  • How Title Transfers
  • Types of Deeds
  • Recording and Title Assurance

Practice of Real Estate

12% of the exam
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  • Brokerage Management and Supervision
  • Trust Accounts, Commingling, and Conversion
  • Fair Housing, Antitrust, and Risk Management

Real Estate Calculations

6% of the exam
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  • The Basic Percentage Formula
  • Area, Volume, and Investment Measures
  • Finance and Proration Calculations

Real Estate Practice

19% of the exam
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  • Chapter 452 and the firm-based structure
  • Duties to parties and to clients
  • Disclosure of relationships and multiple representation
  • Supervision, disclosure limits and administrative duties

Trust Accounts

12% of the exam
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  • Holding client funds is optional; how it is done is not
  • Deposit, notification and designation deadlines
  • Receipts, escrows and disbursement
  • Commingling and recordkeeping

Conduct and Ethical Practices for Real Estate Licensees

22% of the exam
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  • Competent service and advertising
  • Disclosure of compensation and of the licensee's own interest
  • Inspection, disclosure and prohibited arrangements
  • Offers: confidentiality, drafting and presentation

Approved Forms and Legal Advice

6% of the exam
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  • What counts as an approved form
  • When approved forms must be used
  • The legal-advice boundary
  • Reproducing and modifying forms

Drafting and Supervision Knowledge

37% of the exam
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  • The named forms
  • WB-1 and WB-36: earning, extension and termination
  • WB-11 mechanics
  • Amendments, notices, counters and records

Miscellaneous: Fair Housing and Lead-Based Paint

4% of the exam
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  • Wisconsin's open housing law
  • Discrimination and the licensee
  • Federal lead-based paint disclosure

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