You need to take 3 college-level courses in order to qualify and apply to take the Real Estate Sales Exam with the California Department of Real Estate:
By completing Real Estate Principles, Real Estate Practice and 1 other pre-license course and then passing the California Real Estate Salesperson exam, a 4 year permanent license will be issued.
If you have purchased 1 to 3 broker courses to obtain your broker’s license, you have 12 months to complete your final exams. Please note that you must allow 18 days per course from the date of order to complete the final exam and obtain a certificate for the course (per the California Department of Real Estate).
If you have purchased more than 4 broker courses, you have exactly 1 year from the order date to complete all of the final exams.
The final exams for the pre-license courses (sales or broker) are 100 questions long and you are given a time period of 150 minutes per exam. There are no quizzes or essays required.
Once you have the transcript(s) for the course(s) you have completed, you would need to go to the California Department of Real Estate website to obtain the necessary forms and appropriate examination fees by going to www.dre.ca.gov
You will need 45 hours of continuing education which consists of:
20 hours: Ethics, Agency, Trust Funds Handling, Fair Housing, Risk Management, Management Supervision and the new course Implicit Bias (RELSTONE offers this package of courses for California Real Estate CE.)
25 hours of consumer protection: RELSTONE offers coursework in “Selling Business Opportunities in California” which meet this requirement.
These courses are presented as correspondence/internet presentation consisting of text reading,
mandatory quiz questions and a final exam for each booklet &/or textbook. If you enrolled in the 15 hours of continuing education (Agency; Ethics, Professional Conduct, and Legal
Aspects of Real Estate; Fair Housing; Trust Fund Accounting and Handling and Risk Management for
Real Estate Professionals) the minimum time to complete these courses is two days from the date you
have access to the course material. However, if you have enrolled in the 45 hours of continuing
education (Selling Business Opportunities in California or Mortgage Lending along with the courses:
Agency; Ethics, Professional Conduct, and Legal Aspects of Real Estate; Fair Housing; Trust Fund
Accounting and Handling; Risk Management for Real Estate Professionals; Real Estate Management
and Supervision; and the new Implicit Bias then the minimum time you may start taking the exams is
two days from time of enrollment if text material is delivered online, or six days if enrollment involves
delivery of books with no online delivery of text material. The maximum time limit to complete the 15
hours &/or 45 hours CE courses is twelve (12) months from the date of enrollment.
Once you receive the certificates for the courses you have completed, you can go online to the Department of Real Estate website, www.dre.ca.gov, to renew online. Renewal fees may be paid online with a credit card. If you prefer to mail in your renewal, you may print out the renewal forms from the same website and mail it in.
If you are completing the exams online, your exams will be graded immediately after you complete each exam. You will be able to see if you passed and the percentage score.
If you are completing the paper exams, your monitor must mail in the completed exams into our office. Once we receive them, it will take approximately 24 hours to grade and send out trancripts when you have passed the exams.
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