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Texas broker exam
What the Texas broker exam tests, how it is scored, and 118 broker-track practice questions with cited sources.
TREC licensing exam administered by Pearson VUE; national and state portions are scored separately.
Two separately scored sections
The Texas broker exam runs as two separately scored portions: 85 national questions and 60 Texas law questions.
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Under Texas law, ultimate responsibility for the trust account and the conduct of sponsored sales agents rests with:
The sponsoring broker — The sponsoring broker holds the trust account and is legally responsible for supervising sponsored sales agents' conduct, even though the agents perform the day-to-day work.
Source: Texas Real Estate Commission
Which Texas real estate license type allows a person to operate independently, without being sponsored by another license holder?
Broker — Only a broker license, which requires additional education and experience beyond the sales agent level, permits practicing without sponsorship by another broker.
Source: TREC — Become an Individual Real Estate Broker
To qualify for a Texas broker license, an applicant must show active experience as a licensed sales agent or broker for at least how many years during the 60 months preceding the application?
4 years — TREC requires at least four years of active licensed experience during the five-year, 60-month period immediately before the broker application is filed.
Source: TREC — Become an Individual Real Estate Broker
Under current TREC rules, a Texas broker applicant's qualifying practical experience must total at least how many experience points?
720 points — TREC's broker experience requirement is a minimum of 720 experience points accumulated through qualifying real estate activity during the 60-month lookback period.
Source: TREC — Become an Individual Real Estate Broker
The Texas broker exam runs as two separately scored portions: 85 national questions and 60 Texas law questions. You need 68% to pass, within 240 minutes.
It carries a higher passing score (68% versus 62%) and adds brokerage-operations material - supervision, trust accounting, and firm responsibility - on top of the salesperson outline.
118 Texas law questions apply to the broker track, including 34 written specifically for brokers, alongside the national broker bank.
Salesperson track: Texas exam prep · Texas practice test