I failed the real estate exam and my life is over.
When students graduate from our New Jersey real estate pre-licensing classes, we send them off with a simple request: "When you pass the state."
Instructors feel more joy when those calls come in.It made my weekend when five students called to say they passed the exam.
People don't fail the state exam because of their mental abilities.I have never met a stupid student.Garden State Real Estate Academy attracts smart people.
They wait too long to take it after graduating from real estate school.Some people put the state exam on the back burner when the instructor reminds them that they need to pass it on their last day in school.I have a year to sit for the exam.Many of the unusual concepts they have just learned, as well as the little tips and tricks the instructor has taught them as memory-joggers, will start to fade away the longer they wait.
They do not study in the hours and days prior to the exam.This isn't an easy test.It isn't an exam where you can wing it and pass.Our advice is to study up to the point where you are reviewing the topics learned in the car prior to taking the test.
Sometimes people study the wrong things.The general topic areas from which the greatest number of questions will come are provided by Garden State.If you are sitting in the test center parking lot and only have 15 minutes before your appointment, don't waste time reviewing an area where there will only be two questions, go over subjects where you will get 15 questions!
You may be thinking that it is too late.I have failed at least twice or three times.Garden State Real Estate Academy has a tool that can help.On a monthly basis, we have a full-day seminar on Saturday which covers all the subject areas where students have the greatest difficulty on the state exam.At www.GSREacademy.com, you can see when the next class is.The Potpourri Quiz is a 135-question sheet that allows you to quickly study every area of the state exam.Think of it as flash cards on several sheets of paper.
A student called me yesterday to say she had passed the state exam.She said something that gave me the warm fuzzies: "Thank you so much for calling me out whenever I kept saying how I know I'm going to fail the math questions."There was no question that helped me get through the exam.
You can fail the exam if you go into the room with a sense that you will fail.Don't talk at the door.
Schedule another exam if you fail the state exam.$35 is how much it costs you.Use the time before the exam to study the way I suggest.
No broker will know if you passed with a 70.1% or a 100% score when you pass the real estate exam.Not a single client has ever asked if I passed my real estate exam on the first try.