New Jersey Real Estate Salesperson Exam — All Questions
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To qualify for a New Jersey real estate salesperson license, an applicant must complete an approved pre-license course of:
- a.60 hours
- b.40 hours
- c.75 hours✓
- d.120 hours
New Jersey requires 75 hours of approved pre-license education before an applicant may sit for the salesperson examination. After passing the exam, the applicant must be sponsored by a licensed broker to activate the license and must meet continuing-education requirements to renew.
What is the minimum age at which New Jersey will issue a real estate salesperson's license?
- a.At least 21 years old
- b.At least 18 years old✓
- c.At least 19 years old
- d.At least 20 years old
No salesperson's or referral agent's license may be issued to a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. New Jersey sets no higher age for a salesperson; 21 is the threshold in some other states and for some other occupational licenses, not here. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-3.6
Besides meeting the age requirement, what must a New Jersey salesperson applicant certify about their schooling?
- a.An associate degree from any college
- b.At least two years of college coursework
- c.Completion of the eighth grade only
- d.A high school education or equivalency✓
Applicants for a salesperson or referral agent license must certify that they possess a high school education or its equivalency. No college-level study is required, and an eighth-grade education is not enough. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-3.6
How many hours of prelicensure education must a New Jersey salesperson applicant complete at a licensed school?
- a.75 hours✓
- b.60 hours
- c.90 hours
- d.45 hours
The salesperson and referral agent prelicensure course is a minimum of 75 hours. The 90-hour figure is the general broker course, which is only one part of the broker's larger requirement. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-2.1; NJ Real Estate Commission, Requirements for Licensure
How is New Jersey's 150-hour broker prelicensure requirement divided among courses?
- a.A 75-hour course and a 75-hour course
- b.A 120-hour course and a 30-hour course
- c.A 90-hour course and two 30-hour courses✓
- d.A 60-hour course and three 30-hour courses
Broker candidates take a 90-hour general broker course plus two 30-hour courses, one on agency and ethics and one on office management, totaling 150 hours. All three must be completed within a two-year period or previously taken courses must be repeated. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-2.1
What licensed experience must a New Jersey broker applicant have immediately before applying?
- a.Two years, continuous and full time
- b.Three years, continuous and full time✓
- c.Five years, continuous and full time
- d.One year, continuous and full time
The applicant must have been continuously licensed and employed on a full-time basis as a New Jersey real estate salesperson during the three years immediately preceding the application. The rule treats full time as at least 40 hours per week, and limits any other employment to part time. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-3.8
A New Jersey broker candidate finishes the required courses and passes the broker examination. Within what period must the license application be filed?
- a.One year after successful completion✓
- b.Six months after successful completion
- c.Two years after successful completion
- d.90 days after successful completion
The candidate must pass the examination and apply for licensure not later than one year after successful completion. Letting that year lapse forces the education and examination steps to be repeated. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-3.8; NJ Real Estate Commission, Requirements for Licensure
New Jersey real estate licenses are issued for what term, and on what date do they expire?
- a.One-year terms that expire on December 31
- b.Three-year terms that expire on June 30
- c.Four-year terms ending on March 31
- d.Two-year terms that expire on June 30✓
Broker, broker-salesperson, salesperson, referral agent and branch office licenses are issued on two-year license terms, and all licenses expire on June 30 of the second year following the year in which the term commenced. A license issued mid-term runs only to the end of that biennial term. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-3.1
How many continuing education credit hours must a New Jersey licensee complete in each biennial license term?
- a.18 credit hours
- b.20 credit hours
- c.12 credit hours✓
- d.16 credit hours
At least 12 CE credit hours must be completed as a condition of biennial renewal. A licensed referral agent renewing as a referral agent is not required to complete CE. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.3; NJ Real Estate Commission, CE credit hours breakdown
Of New Jersey's required continuing education credit hours, how many must be taken in ethics?
- a.2 hours of ethics✓
- b.4 hours of ethics
- c.3 hours of ethics
- d.6 hours of ethics
Two of the 12 hours must be on the topic of ethics. Ethics credit may substitute for core and elective hours, but core and elective credit may not substitute for the ethics requirement. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.3; NJ Real Estate Commission, CE credit hours breakdown
Within New Jersey's 12-hour CE requirement, how much is set aside for fair housing and the Law Against Discrimination, and how much for agency?
- a.Two hours fair housing and two hours agency
- b.One hour fair housing and one hour agency✓
- c.Three hours fair housing and one hour agency
- d.Four hours fair housing, no agency hours
The Commission's breakdown is 1 hour of fair housing and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, 1 hour of agency, 2 hours of ethics, 2 hours of any core topic, and 6 hours of any combination of core and elective topics. Cite: NJ Real Estate Commission, breakdown of CE credit hours (nj.gov/dobi/division_rec)
By what date in the renewal year should a New Jersey licensee finish continuing education to avoid an additional processing fee?
- a.March 31
- b.May 31
- c.June 30
- d.April 30✓
The Commission's deadline to complete CE without an added fee is April 30 of the renewal year; the license itself expires June 30. Credits earned between May 1 and June 30 carry an additional processing fee. Cite: N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.3; NJ Real Estate Commission, Continuing Education FAQs