Connecticut Real Estate Salesperson Exam — All Questions
12 questions
How many hours of approved pre-license education must a Connecticut salesperson applicant complete before the licensing exam?
- a.30 hours
- b.60 hours✓
- c.90 hours
- d.120 hours
Connecticut requires 60 clock hours of approved Principles and Practices of Real Estate pre-license education to qualify for the salesperson examination. Applicants must also pass the exam and meet the Commission's application requirements.
Before being admitted to the Connecticut real estate salesperson examination, an applicant must prove completion of an approved course in real estate principles and practices of at least:
- a.Thirty classroom hours of study
- b.Forty-five classroom hours of study
- c.Sixty classroom hours of study✓
- d.Ninety classroom hours of study
Connecticut requires a salesperson applicant to complete a commission-approved course in real estate principles and practices consisting of at least sixty classroom hours of study, or to show equivalent experience or education accepted by the commission, before sitting for the examination. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-314(d)(3).
To qualify by experience for a Connecticut real estate broker's license, an applicant must have been actively engaged as a licensed salesperson under a supervising licensee for:
- a.Three years immediately preceding application, engaging in the real estate business at least 1,500 hours✓
- b.One year immediately preceding application, engaging in the real estate business for at least 1,000 hours
- c.Two years immediately preceding application, engaging in the real estate business at least 2,000 hours
- d.Five years immediately preceding application, engaging in the real estate business at least 2,500 hours
The broker qualification requires three years of active licensed salesperson work immediately preceding the application, totaling at least one thousand five hundred hours, certified on a form by the supervising licensee or that licensee's authorized representative. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-314(d)(1)(A)(i).
Besides the sixty-hour principles and practices course, which additional approved coursework must a Connecticut broker applicant complete?
- a.A fifteen-hour appraisal course, a fifteen-hour property management course, and two fifteen-hour electives
- b.A thirty-hour legal compliance course and two thirty-hour elective courses of the applicant's choosing
- c.A sixty-hour brokerage course plus one fifteen-hour elective approved by the commission
- d.A fifteen-hour legal compliance course, a fifteen-hour brokerage course, and two fifteen-hour electives✓
A broker applicant must add a fifteen-hour real estate legal compliance course, a fifteen-hour real estate brokerage principles and practices course, and two elective courses of fifteen classroom hours each. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-314(d)(1)(A)(iii) to (v).
Connecticut broker applicants must also show a record of closed transactions. How many, and over what period?
- a.At least two closed transactions during the two years preceding the application
- b.At least four closed transactions during the three years preceding the application✓
- c.At least six closed transactions during the three years preceding the application
- d.At least ten closed transactions during the five years preceding the application
The applicant must have represented a seller, buyer, lessor or lessee in at least four real estate transactions that closed during the three years immediately preceding the date the application was filed. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-314(d)(1)(A)(vi).
The two fifteen-hour elective courses required of a Connecticut broker applicant are waived if the applicant has successfully completed:
- a.At least twenty real estate transactions within the five years preceding application✓
- b.At least ten real estate transactions within the two years preceding application
- c.At least forty real estate transactions within the ten years preceding the application
- d.At least five real estate transactions within the single year preceding application
The commission or commissioner must waive the elective course requirement where the applicant has successfully completed at least twenty real estate transactions within the five years immediately preceding the date of application. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-314(d)(2).
A Connecticut real estate licensee applying for a two-year renewal license must satisfy a continuing education requirement of at least:
- a.Six classroom hours
- b.Nine classroom hours
- c.Twelve classroom hours✓
- d.Twenty classroom hours
The continuing education requirement may be met by completing commission-approved courses in current real estate practices and licensing laws consisting of not less than twelve hours of classroom study during the two-year period preceding renewal, by passing an approved written examination, or by equivalent study allowed by regulation. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-319(b).
Within the twelve continuing education hours required for a Connecticut renewal, the Department of Consumer Protection requires licensees to include:
- a.A three-hour course in appraisal methods chosen by the licensee
- b.A three-hour mandatory course designated by the department✓
- c.A six-hour course in federal fair housing enforcement practice
- d.A six-hour course in common interest community management law
The department publishes a mandatory course for each two-year cycle: licensees take one three-hour mandatory Connecticut real estate license law course plus nine hours of electives to reach twelve. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-319(b); DCP, Real Estate Salesperson - Continuing Education.
A Connecticut licensee who did not complete continuing education during the license period, but finished it within two months after that period expired, owes the department a fee of:
- a.One hundred fifty dollars
- b.Two hundred dollars
- c.Six hundred twenty-five dollars
- d.Three hundred fifteen dollars✓
The statute sets two late fees: three hundred fifteen dollars where the licensee completes the requirement not later than two months after the license period expired, and six hundred twenty-five dollars where completion is more than two but not more than four months after. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-319(e).
A Connecticut real estate license that has been lapsed for at least three years:
- a.Cannot be reinstated; the former licensee must apply for a new license✓
- b.May be reinstated on payment of all late fees and all back renewal fees
- c.May be reinstated at any time within ten years of the expiration date
- d.Is reinstated automatically once continuing education is completed
Reinstatement is available only while the license has been expired for less than three years. Once a license has lapsed for at least three years the former licensee is ineligible for reinstatement and may apply for a new license. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-314(f).
An applicant licensed in another state whose licensure requirements are not substantially similar to Connecticut's must:
- a.Complete the full sixty-hour Connecticut principles and practices course
- b.Wait two years before applying for any Connecticut real estate license
- c.Pass the Connecticut portion of the real estate licensing examination✓
- d.Obtain a waiver from the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities
Connecticut recognizes an out-of-state license where that state examines applicants in writing, has requirements substantially similar to or higher than Connecticut's, and the applicant has no pending discipline or unresolved complaint; otherwise the applicant must pass the Connecticut portion of the examination. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-317(a).
The Connecticut Real Estate Commission, appointed by the Governor, consists of:
- a.Seven members: four brokers, one salesperson and two public members
- b.Eight members: three brokers, two salespersons, three public members✓
- c.Nine members: five brokers, two salespersons and two public members
- d.Five members: two brokers, two salespersons and one public member
The commission created within the Department of Consumer Protection has eight members, all electors of the state: three licensed real estate brokers, two licensed real estate salespersons and three public members, with at least one member from each congressional district. Cite: Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 20-311a(b).