Pass CA broker exam without any prelicensing classes?

[Yoona Lextae]

Hello everyone, so I took the prelicensing courses for the broker exam many years ago, but by now have forgotten virtually everything. Effectively it is as if I never took them... Since retaking them all would obviously not be a great use of time, I was wondering if it is possible for someone who has never taken any of the classes (Real Estate Practice, Principles, Legal, etc) to still pass the broker exam using an exam prep course like Kaplan? If this is possible, I wanted to ask a couple questions in particular:

1) Would a broker exam prep course contain all the raw information required for someone with no prior/RE knowledge to pass the exam?

2) Which online broker exam prep course is best for California? I am looking at Kaplan's, but they only have 2 practice exams, and I was told that spamming practice exams was important.

3) For a California license, there are 5 mandatory classes everyone must take, and then you must choose 3 additional classes from a variety of electives courses (eg Office Administration, Property Management, Escrow, etc). This should mean that the broker exam tests on the 5 mandatory classes only, and does not test on any of the elective courses right? Because it wouldn't seem fair to test on Property Management for example, if someone didn't choose that class for their elective.

Thank you!

[Manuel Angeles]

Real Estate Trainer's broker crash course is the best

https://www.retrainersca.com/b...

They have practice tests, and the questions are almost identical to whats on the real test.

I passed my California Brokers Test on my first try

I also bought Duane Gomer's (https://www.duanegomer.com/cat...) and Real Estate Excellence's (https://reeinc.org/).... but I think Real Estate Trainers' practice tests helped more

[Dustin Allen]

@Yoona Lextae

You have to take the pre licensing education in order to take the test and get the license.

[Steve Morris]

If it's like OR/WA, they require so many hours of "seat" time in classes before you can get a license or renewal.

[Manuel Angeles]

Real Estate Trainer's broker crash course is the best

https://www.retrainersca.com/b...

They have practice tests, and the questions are almost identical to whats on the real test.

I passed my California Brokers Test on my first try

I also bought Duane Gomer's (https://www.duanegomer.com/cat...) and Real Estate Excellence's (https://reeinc.org/).... but I think Real Estate Trainers' practice tests helped more

[Mark Pedroza]

Originally posted by @Yoona Lextae:

Hello everyone, so I took the prelicensing courses for the broker exam many years ago, but by now have forgotten virtually everything. Effectively it is as if I never took them... Since retaking them all would obviously not be a great use of time, I was wondering if it is possible for someone who has never taken any of the classes (Real Estate Practice, Principles, Legal, etc) to still pass the broker exam using an exam prep course like Kaplan? If this is possible, I wanted to ask a couple questions in particular:

1) Would a broker exam prep course contain all the raw information required for someone with no prior/RE knowledge to pass the exam?

2) Which online broker exam prep course is best for California? I am looking at Kaplan's, but they only have 2 practice exams, and I was told that spamming practice exams was important.

3) For a California license, there are 5 mandatory classes everyone must take, and then you must choose 3 additional classes from a variety of electives courses (eg Office Administration, Property Management, Escrow, etc). This should mean that the broker exam tests on the 5 mandatory classes only, and does not test on any of the elective courses right? Because it wouldn't seem fair to test on Property Management for example, if someone didn't choose that class for their elective.

Thank you!

There are no shortcut's to obtaining a CA real estate license. You must take the prerequisite required classes first for a real estate sales person license before you can test for the brokers license.

For the sales person license there's 150 questions ~ for the brokers license there's 200 questions..

[Loli Gomez]

I can agree with Manuel that RE Trainers is the best. I have used another course and was not successful, when I used RE Trainers I passed on my first try. They guarantee you will pass. 

[Yoona Lextae]

Originally posted by @Mark Pedroza:

Originally posted by @Yoona Lextae:

Hello everyone, so I took the prelicensing courses for the broker exam many years ago, but by now have forgotten virtually everything. Effectively it is as if I never took them... Since retaking them all would obviously not be a great use of time, I was wondering if it is possible for someone who has never taken any of the classes (Real Estate Practice, Principles, Legal, etc) to still pass the broker exam using an exam prep course like Kaplan? If this is possible, I wanted to ask a couple questions in particular:

1) Would a broker exam prep course contain all the raw information required for someone with no prior/RE knowledge to pass the exam?

2) Which online broker exam prep course is best for California? I am looking at Kaplan's, but they only have 2 practice exams, and I was told that spamming practice exams was important.

3) For a California license, there are 5 mandatory classes everyone must take, and then you must choose 3 additional classes from a variety of electives courses (eg Office Administration, Property Management, Escrow, etc). This should mean that the broker exam tests on the 5 mandatory classes only, and does not test on any of the elective courses right? Because it wouldn't seem fair to test on Property Management for example, if someone didn't choose that class for their elective.

Thank you!

There are no shortcut's to obtaining a CA real estate license. You must take the prerequisite required classes first for a real estate sales person license before you can test for the brokers license.

For the sales person license there's 150 questions ~ for the brokers license there's 200 questions..

You have to read bro. How bout shortcutting to literally the first sentence where I say that I already took the prelicensing courses

[Yoona Lextae]

Originally posted by @Manuel Angeles:

Real Estate Trainer's broker crash course is the best

https://www.retrainersca.com/b...

They have practice tests, and the questions are almost identical to whats on the real test.

I passed my California Brokers Test on my first try

I also bought Duane Gomer's (https://www.duanegomer.com/cat...) and Real Estate Excellence's (https://reeinc.org/).... but I think Real Estate Trainers' practice tests helped more

Awesome answer thank you so much, this is invaluable insight that can't be found virtually anywhere else because most people haven't tried both products. I was actually about to pull the trigger on Duane Gomer until I read your comment.

For RE Trainer's broker crash course, I called and there's an option to purchase just the 2 textbooks + Computrainer (and not the 2-day live class itself). From what I understand the textbooks + Compu contain all the practice questions - do you think it's sufficient to just study those well, or was the live course really valuable for you as well?

Also if I understood your comment correctly, the reason you felt RE Trainers was better than Duane Gomer was because of the quality of the practice questions and their similarity to the actual exam right? But what did you think about the study material itself (the portion of the textbooks that we actually study/memorize) - was RE Trainer's book also easier to understand and study for you? Thanks again.

Edit: One last thing, do you think there is an overall benefit to purchasing both the RE Trainer and Duane Gomer courses (for more perspectives/practice)? Or do you think the 2 courses may have conflicting material that would confuse the reader, and buying just RE Trainer is more effective for passing the exam? Thanks.

[Mark Pedroza]

Originally posted by @Yoona Lextae:

Originally posted by @Mark Pedroza:

Originally posted by @Yoona Lextae:

Hello everyone, so I took the prelicensing courses for the broker exam many years ago, but by now have forgotten virtually everything. Effectively it is as if I never took them... Since retaking them all would obviously not be a great use of time, I was wondering if it is possible for someone who has never taken any of the classes (Real Estate Practice, Principles, Legal, etc) to still pass the broker exam using an exam prep course like Kaplan? If this is possible, I wanted to ask a couple questions in particular:

1) Would a broker exam prep course contain all the raw information required for someone with no prior/RE knowledge to pass the exam?

2) Which online broker exam prep course is best for California? I am looking at Kaplan's, but they only have 2 practice exams, and I was told that spamming practice exams was important.

3) For a California license, there are 5 mandatory classes everyone must take, and then you must choose 3 additional classes from a variety of electives courses (eg Office Administration, Property Management, Escrow, etc). This should mean that the broker exam tests on the 5 mandatory classes only, and does not test on any of the elective courses right? Because it wouldn't seem fair to test on Property Management for example, if someone didn't choose that class for their elective.

Thank you!

There are no shortcut's to obtaining a CA real estate license. You must take the prerequisite required classes first for a real estate sales person license before you can test for the brokers license.

For the sales person license there's 150 questions ~ for the brokers license there's 200 questions..

You have to read bro. How bout shortcutting to literally the first sentence where I say that I already took the prelicensing courses

 Since you have already taken your prelicensing courses you'll need to submit your completed course certificates to the DRE and schedule a test date for your exam..