Virginia Real Estate Salesperson Exam — All Questions

How many hours of approved prelicensing education must a Virginia real estate salesperson applicant complete?

• a.90 hours
• b.60 hours✓
• c.No education is required
• d.24 hours

Virginia requires 60 hours of approved prelicensing education for salesperson applicants. Applicants must also be at least 18, pass the licensing exam, and meet character requirements.

A newly licensed Virginia salesperson is generally required to complete additional post-license education within the first year of licensure. This requirement helps ensure new licensees:

• a.Never have to renew
• b.Become brokers automatically
• c.Can skip all future continuing education
• d.Gain practical knowledge shortly after entering the profession✓

Virginia requires new salespersons to complete post-license education (30 hours) during their first year of licensure. This builds on prelicensing education with practical, current knowledge. It is separate from the ongoing continuing education required at each renewal.

Virginia's prelicense education requirement for an initial salesperson license is a principles of real estate course of at least how many hours?

• a.45 hours of classroom or distance instruction
• b.60 hours of classroom or distance instruction✓
• c.90 hours of classroom or distance instruction
• d.75 hours of classroom or distance instruction

The course must carry at least four semester hours of academic credit but not less than 60 hours of classroom, correspondence or other distance learning instruction. The board regulation repeats the same 60-class-hour floor and lists the subjects the course must cover. Cite: Code of Virginia 54.1-2105 B 1 b; 18 VAC 135-20-400.

Beyond a high school diploma, what education does Virginia require of an applicant for an initial broker license?

• a.Sixty class hours of real estate principles
• b.Eight semester hours of real estate courses
• c.Forty-five class hours of brokerage practice
• d.Twelve semester hours of real estate coursework✓

A broker applicant must have completed not less than 12 semester hours of classroom, correspondence or other distance learning instruction in real estate courses. The 60-hour principles course is the salesperson requirement, not the broker requirement. Cite: Code of Virginia 54.1-2105 B 2 b.

Which pair of qualifications must every applicant for an individual Virginia salesperson or broker license meet?

• a.At least 18 years old and a high school diploma✓
• b.At least 21 years old and a high school diploma
• c.At least 18 years old and an associate's degree
• d.At least 21 years old and one year of residency

The board's entry regulation requires that the applicant be at least 18 years of age and hold a high school diploma or its equivalent. Virginia sets no minimum age of 21 and no residency requirement for licensure. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-30 (1) and (2).

How recently must an applicant for initial Virginia licensure have passed the licensing examination?

• a.Within six months before a complete application
• b.Within 24 months before a complete application
• c.Within 12 months before a complete application✓
• d.Within 36 months before a complete application

An applicant for initial licensure must, within 12 months prior to submitting a complete application, have passed the written examination given by the board or its testing service. The same 12-month window applies to applicants by reciprocity. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-35 D and E 1.

What active salesperson experience must an applicant for a Virginia broker license show?

• a.24 of the 36 months immediately preceding application
• b.48 of the 60 months immediately preceding application
• c.12 of the 24 months immediately preceding application
• d.36 of the 48 months immediately preceding application✓

The applicant must have been actively engaged as a salesperson for 36 of the 48 months immediately preceding application, and that experience must be verified by the principal or supervising broker for whom the applicant worked at the time. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-35 C.

A Virginia salesperson renewing a license for the first time must complete post-license education on what schedule?

• a.30 hours within one year of licensure✓
• b.45 hours within two years of licensure
• c.30 hours within two years of licensure
• d.16 hours within one year of licensure

The 30-hour post-license curriculum is due within one year from the last day of the month in which the license was issued, and it is owed whether the license is active or inactive. Missing the deadline places the license on inactive status until the curriculum is finished. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-95 A; Code of Virginia 54.1-2105.01 A.

Within Virginia's 30-hour post-license curriculum, which two subjects carry six hours each?

• a.Agency law and risk management
• b.Ethics and escrow requirements
• c.Real estate law and contract writing✓
• d.Current industry issues and agency law

Real estate law and regulations takes six hours and contract writing takes six hours. Agency law, ethics, risk management and escrow requirements are three hours each; fair housing and current industry issues are two hours each. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-95 B.

How much continuing education must an active Virginia salesperson complete during each two-year licensing term?

• a.8 hours, of which 6 are mandatory topics
• b.16 hours, of which 11 are mandatory subjects✓
• c.24 hours, of which 19 are mandatory topics
• d.30 hours, of which 15 are mandatory topics

An active salesperson owes 16 hours per licensing term, 11 of which are board-mandated subjects and the rest electives drawn from the regulation's list. The 24-hour, 19-mandatory figure is the broker requirement. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-101 A 1 and A 2.

Of a Virginia salesperson's 11 mandatory continuing education hours, which subject requires three hours rather than two?

• a.Legal updates and emerging trends
• b.Real estate agency
• c.Real estate contracts
• d.Ethics and standards of conduct✓

The mandatory block is two hours fair housing, three hours ethics and standards of conduct, two hours agency, two hours contracts, and two hours legal updates and emerging trends. Only ethics carries three hours. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-101 A 1.

An active Virginia broker's 24 continuing education hours include a block of how many hours on supervision and management?

• a.Eight hours, two of them on supervision rules✓
• b.Four hours, two of them on supervision rules
• c.Six hours, three of them on supervision rules
• d.Twelve hours, two of them on supervision rules

Brokers owe eight hours in supervision and management of agents and brokerage firms, two of which must overview the broker supervision requirements of the board's chapter and Chapter 21 of Title 54.1. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-101 A 2 a.

What continuing education must an inactive Virginia broker or salesperson complete as a condition of renewal?

• a.The 11 mandatory hours, but no elective hours
• b.The full 16 hours, the same as active licensees
• c.None; inactive licensees are exempt✓
• d.Two hours of fair housing law and nothing more

Inactive brokers and salespersons are not required to complete the continuing education course to renew. Reinstating an inactive license also does not trigger continuing education, but activating a license does. Cite: 18 VAC 135-20-101 A 4; 18 VAC 135-20-140 A.