Missouri Real Estate Salesperson Exam — All Questions

To keep a Missouri real estate license active, a licensee must complete continuing education during each renewal period, which in Missouri occurs on a:

• a.Monthly basis
• b.Biennial (every two years) basis✓
• c.Five-year basis
• d.One-time basis that never repeats

Missouri real estate licenses are renewed biennially, and licensees must complete required continuing education, including a Missouri Real Estate Commission core course, during each two-year renewal period to renew on active status.

Missouri requires a salesperson applicant to complete an approved pre-examination course of how many hours before sitting for the license exam?

• a.Sixty hours
• b.Forty-eight hours✓
• c.Seventy-five hours
• d.Ninety hours

Accredited Missouri schools teach a forty-eight-hour Salesperson Pre-Examination Course, and the completion certificate must be in hand before the candidate attempts the examination. The broker pre-examination course is also forty-eight hours. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-6.060(1); 20 CSR 2250-3.010(4)(A)1., (9).

When may a Missouri salesperson applicant take the 24-hour Missouri Real Estate Practice Course?

• a.Before starting the 48-hour pre-examination course
• b.During the first renewal period after licensure
• c.Within thirty days after the license is issued
• d.After completing the 48-hour pre-examination course✓

The practice course may be taken before or after the exam date, but only after the forty-eight-hour pre-examination course has been successfully completed, and it must be finished before the license application is submitted. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-3.010(4)(A)3.; MREC, Examination and Licensure Eligibility Requirements.

How long does a Missouri applicant have after completing the required pre-examination course to pass the exam and apply for a license?

• a.Six months✓
• b.Twelve months
• c.Ninety days
• d.Twenty-four months

After six months, credit for the course and the examination expires, and both the course and the examination must be repeated before applying. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-3.010(8).

A Missouri broker applicant must show active licensed real estate experience of:

• a.12 of the last 24 months
• b.36 of the last 60 months
• c.24 of the last 30 months✓
• d.18 of the last 36 months

The commission's rule requires evidence of active licensure as a salesperson, in Missouri or another jurisdiction, for no fewer than twenty-four of the thirty months immediately preceding the date of application. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-3.010(6)(A)1.; RSMo 339.040.5.

A Missouri real estate broker license expires on:

• a.September 30 of each even-numbered year
• b.December 31 of each odd-numbered year
• c.June 30 of each odd-numbered year
• d.June 30 of each even-numbered year✓

Broker, entity, broker-officer, broker-partner, broker-associate, broker-salesperson and inactive broker licenses all expire June 30 in each even-numbered year. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-4.020(1)(A); MREC 2026-2028 Renewal Information.

A Missouri real estate salesperson license expires on:

• a.June 30 of each even-numbered year
• b.September 30 of each even-numbered year✓
• c.September 30 of each odd-numbered year
• d.December 31 of each even-numbered year

Salesperson, inactive salesperson and professional corporation (salesperson) licenses expire September 30 in each even-numbered year, three months after the broker deadline. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-4.020(1)(B); MREC 2026-2028 Renewal Information.

Which statement about Missouri's continuing education core requirement is correct?

• a.Six of the twelve hours must be a core course
• b.Core courses are optional for active licensees
• c.Three of the twelve hours must be a core course✓
• d.All twelve hours must be core course credit

At least three of the twelve hours must be taken in a course the commission identifies as core and notices on its website no later than March 31 of each even-numbered year. For the 2026-2028 renewal period the commission has designated Fair Housing. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-10.100(3); MREC, Continuing Education Requirements/Renewal Deadlines.

A Missouri licensee completes eighteen continuing education hours in one renewal period. The six extra hours:

• a.May not be applied to a later renewal period✓
• b.Carry forward to the next renewal period
• c.Reduce the next period's core requirement
• d.Count toward the broker experience requirement

Hours obtained in excess of the twelve required during a renewal period may not be carried forward to satisfy the requirement for any subsequent renewal period. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-10.100(8).

A Missouri licensee who did not complete the continuing education requirement must submit with the renewal:

• a.A written waiver request signed by the broker
• b.Double the continuing education hours in the next period
• c.An affidavit of inactivity for the renewal period
• d.Proof of the 24-hour Missouri Real Estate Practice Course✓

The practice course must have been completed no more than six months before the renewal application is received by the commission. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-4.020(1)(F); 20 CSR 2250-6.060.

Missouri charges a delinquency fee on a late license renewal of:

• a.$25 per month, capped at $100
• b.$50 per month, capped at $200✓
• c.$10,000 flat for any late filing
• d.$100 per month, capped at $400

The delinquent fee is fifty dollars per month or partial month elapsed since expiration, not to exceed two hundred dollars. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-4.020(1)(E); MREC 2026-2028 Renewal Information.

Every applicant for an original Missouri real estate license must:

• a.Be fingerprinted for state and federal background checks✓
• b.Post a surety bond with the commission
• c.Provide three letters of character reference
• d.File a credit report with the application

Applicants register through the Missouri Automated Criminal History Site and are printed by the commission's statewide vendor for a Missouri State Highway Patrol and FBI criminal history check. Cite: 20 CSR 2250-3.010(3); RSMo 339.015; MREC, Examination and Licensure Eligibility Requirements.