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You can practice original Florida real estate exam questions with explained answers below, choose a free topic set, or take a free 100-question practice exam. A shorter 25-question check is also available. Pass Florida's full app bank contains 1,142 questions across the 19 Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) content areas. Bank size, topic coverage and exam weighting describe different things.
Start with the format that fits the time you have. The sample answers on this page help you check your reasoning. The interactive tools give you a scored attempt.
| What you want to do | Where to start | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Try a few questions with explanations | Worked examples below | Read, answer and check the reasoning |
| Work on one weak subject | Free questions by topic | Separate practice sets for all 19 areas |
| Rehearse the complete exam | Free 100-question practice exam | Exam-pace option: 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fit practice into a shorter session | 25-question check | Exam-pace option: 52 minutes 30 seconds |
| Get more question variety and saved study progress | Pass Florida app | Explore free access and the full app bank |
The free full exam and short check need no signup. They also offer accelerated and untimed options. A short check cannot assess every objective in the syllabus, and repeated attempts draw from a finite pool.
What this guide covers
- Sample questions and explained answers
- Question banks versus weighted exams
- All 19 areas and their official weights
- How to judge a practice question
- A useful practice session
- Question counts and readiness
- Frequently asked questions
Sample questions with answers
Choose an answer before reading the explanation. These original study examples illustrate eight topics; their distribution is not a miniature version of the exam blueprint.
1. Brokerage activities (12%)
A sales associate receives a $5,000 earnest money deposit on a Tuesday. There are no legal holidays that week. By when must the broker deposit it into the brokerage escrow account?
- A. Immediately, the same day
- B. By the end of the next business day
- C. By the end of the third business day
- D. Within seven calendar days
Answer: C, Friday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the three business days after receipt. The associate has a separate Wednesday delivery deadline. The broker does not get three extra days after that handoff. See F.A.C. 61J2-14.008 through 14.010.
Drill more in brokerage activities practice.
2. Real estate contracts (12%)
An unemancipated 17-year-old signs a contract with an adult seller to buy an investment condominium. Assume no statutory exception removes the age-related limitation on contracting. How is the contract generally classified?
- A. Void
- B. Voidable by the minor
- C. Voidable by the seller
- D. Fully enforceable
Answer: B. Under the stated assumptions, the contract is generally voidable by the minor, rather than automatically void. The adult seller cannot use the buyer's minority alone to disaffirm it. Florida's legislative analysis of minors' contracting capacity, page 4, explains the general rule and why emancipation and statutory exceptions matter.
Drill more in contracts practice.
3. Authorized relationships (7%)
Which duty does a single agent owe that a transaction broker does not?
- A. Dealing honestly and fairly
- B. Accounting for all funds
- C. Loyalty
- D. Using skill, care, and diligence
Answer: C. Loyalty is one of the nine single-agent duties and is not owed by a transaction broker. Dealing honestly and fairly, accounting for funds, and using skill, care, and diligence are owed under both relationships, which is what makes them the distractors.
The duty list comes from F.S. 475.278. Drill more in relationships practice.
4. Residential mortgages (9%)
A loan that is guaranteed by the federal government and available to eligible veterans is best described as a:
- A. FHA loan
- B. VA loan
- C. Conventional loan
- D. Conforming loan
Answer: B. A VA loan is guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs for eligible veterans. The trap is option A: FHA loans are insured, not guaranteed, and are not limited to veterans. The words "guaranteed" and "veterans" point to VA. Compare VA purchase-loan eligibility with HUD's FHA mortgage insurance explanation.
Drill more in mortgages practice.
More sample questions with answers
These four cover property rights, appraisal, titles and deeds, and license law, again with the answer, a short explanation, and the area to drill next.
5. Property rights (8%)
Which form of ownership gives the most complete bundle of rights and lasts for an indefinite duration?
- A. Life estate
- B. Estate for years
- C. Fee simple absolute
- D. Leasehold estate
Answer: C. Fee simple absolute is the highest and most complete form of ownership. It is of indefinite duration and is inheritable. A life estate (option A) ends at someone's death, and an estate for years (option B) has a fixed end date.
Drill more in property rights practice.
6. Real estate appraisal (8%)
An appraiser is valuing a church, a special-purpose property with no comparable sales and no rental income. Which approach is most appropriate?
- A. Sales comparison approach
- B. Income approach
- C. Cost approach
- D. Gross rent multiplier
Answer: C. The cost approach is used for special-purpose properties like churches, schools, and libraries, where comparable sales and income data are scarce. It values the land plus the depreciated cost to rebuild the improvements.
Drill more in appraisal practice.
7. Titles and deeds (7%)
Which deed offers the grantee the greatest protection?
- A. Quitclaim deed
- B. Special warranty deed
- C. General warranty deed
- D. Bargain and sale deed
Answer: C. A general warranty deed gives broader title warranties than a special warranty or quitclaim deed. Its warranties can cover defects arising before the grantor owned the property, subject to the deed's terms and exceptions. See F.S. 689.03. A quitclaim deed (option A) offers the least protection because it conveys only whatever interest the grantor may have, with no warranties.
Drill more in titles and deeds practice.
8. Commission rules: FREC (2%)
How many members serve on the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC)?
- A. Five
- B. Seven
- C. Nine
- D. Eleven
Answer: B. FREC has seven members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate: four brokers with the required five years of active licensure, one broker or sales associate with the required two years, and two consumer members who have never been brokers or sales associates. At least one member must be 60 or older. F.S. 475.02 sets the membership requirements.
Drill more in license law practice and FREC rules practice.
For Florida math questions with worked solutions, use the dedicated set of 21 math practice questions and answers.
Is the question bank weighted like the state exam?
A question bank is the collection from which practice can be drawn. A weighted exam selects a particular mix from that collection. The collection itself does not need to contain each topic in exactly the exam's percentages.
Pass Florida's app bank covers the 19 content areas. Do not interpret its 1,142-question total as a claim that 12% of the stored questions are contracts or 1% are zoning. Topic practice can deliberately spend more time on a small area when that is where you need help.
The website's 100-question simulation selects questions at the official content-area weights. The 25-question option samples the areas proportionally across repeated draws; one short attempt cannot reproduce all 19 percentages exactly. Neither mode includes pilot questions.
The DBPR candidate booklet describes 100 multiple-choice questions, 3.5 hours and a passing score of 75 points. It also allows unidentified, unscored pilot questions with additional time. Its outline is the basis for the table below, not evidence that a prep score predicts your state-exam result.
The 19 official topics and where to practice them
Use the percentages to understand exam emphasis. Use your mistakes to decide which subject needs your next study session. The percentages below describe the state exam, not the composition of the app bank.
| DBPR content area | Exam weight | Practice the area |
|---|---|---|
| Real estate brokerage activities and procedures | 12% | Brokerage practice |
| Real estate contracts | 12% | Contracts practice |
| Residential mortgages | 9% | Mortgages practice |
| Property rights: estates, tenancies, condos and HOAs | 8% | Property rights practice |
| Real estate appraisal | 8% | Appraisal practice |
| Authorized relationships, duties and disclosures | 7% | Relationships practice |
| Titles, deeds and ownership restrictions | 7% | Titles and deeds practice |
| License law and qualifications for licensure | 6% | License law practice |
| Real estate computations and closing | 6% | Computations practice |
| Legal descriptions | 5% | Legal descriptions practice |
| Types of mortgages and sources of financing | 4% | Financing practice |
| Violations of license law, penalties and procedures | 3% | Violations practice |
| Federal and state laws | 3% | Federal and state law practice |
| Taxes affecting real estate | 3% | Taxes practice |
| License law and commission rules (FREC) | 2% | FREC rules practice |
| Real estate investments and business brokerage | 2% | Investments practice |
| The real estate business | 1% | Real estate business practice |
| Real estate markets and analysis | 1% | Markets practice |
| Planning and zoning | 1% | Planning and zoning practice |
The weights total 100%. Brokerage, contracts, residential mortgages, property rights and appraisal together account for 49%. That is a reason to protect study time for them, while still checking every smaller area.
Calculations also occur outside the 6% computations category. The official outline places math under subjects such as brokerage commission, legal descriptions, finance and taxes. Use the math practice collection for worked calculations.
What makes a question useful?
Before relying on a bank, check more than its headline count.
| Check | A useful question provides | A reason to investigate |
|---|---|---|
| Florida relevance | A rule or concept in the published Florida outline | Generic national agency rules presented as Florida law |
| Explanation | The controlling fact and why the alternatives fail | Only an answer letter |
| Source | A current public authority for a legal, tax or licensing claim | A rule stated without a source or effective context |
| Assumptions | Dates, rounding instructions and party roles where needed | A math answer that changes with unstated assumptions |
| Originality | Independently written practice material | A claim to provide secure, live Pearson VUE questions |
| Coverage | Clear topic labels and access to all 19 areas | Many near-identical questions concentrated in a few topics |
Exam difficulty cannot be established from marketing language alone. A question can follow the published outline without having been calibrated against the live exam. Treat claims of identical difficulty or guaranteed passage with care.
PUT THE EXPLANATION TO WORK
Choose a topic you cannot yet explain.
Answer a free topic set, review both mistakes and guesses, then return to the rule behind each miss.
How to use the bank in a study session
- Choose one specific weakness. Use your result report, classwork or a mixed practice attempt. A single missed question is a clue, not a complete diagnosis.
- Answer without notes. Mark answers you guessed so a lucky choice does not hide a gap.
- Explain the mistake. Was it a missing rule, a missed word, a calculation setup or a timing problem?
- Write one correction. For example: “Start the broker's deposit clock when the associate receives the money.”
- Try a different example. Change the day, amount or relationship. Check whether you can still apply the rule.
- Return to mixed practice. Eventually you need to identify the subject without a topic heading telling you what it is.
For a manageable session, choose a small set you have time to review fully. Spending 20 minutes examining five mistakes can be more useful than completing another set without checking the explanations. That is a study suggestion, not a required schedule.
Use the daily practice guide to arrange recurring sessions. The retake plan is the better next step if you are studying after a failed state exam.
How many questions are enough?
There is no official number of practice questions that establishes readiness. Completing 500 or 1,000 questions does not, by itself, show that you can apply the material on an unfamiliar test.
Check what your score depends on:
- Can you explain the answer before reading the choices?
- Can you solve a changed version of a familiar example?
- Have you checked every content area, including small ones?
- Can you finish under realistic time limits?
- Do your recent results include unfamiliar questions, or mostly repeats?
A high score on a familiar set is useful evidence of recall, but weaker evidence of transfer to a new question. Keep a short list of rules you still confuse and return to them with different examples. No practice percentage guarantees a pass.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find free Florida real estate exam questions and answers?
Use the worked examples on this page or the free topic sets in the practice-questions directory. For a scored attempt with explanations after submission, choose the 100-question exam or 25-question check.
Are these actual Pearson VUE exam questions?
No. They are original study questions based on public rules and concepts. They do not reproduce the secure state exam or promise the same question wording or difficulty. No copied exam questions.
How many questions are in the Pass Florida bank?
The full app bank contains 1,142 questions across 19 content areas. That total is different from the website's free practice pool and from the 100 scored questions on the state exam.
Is the full question bank free?
The website's topic sets, 100-question exam and 25-question check are free. The app offers free access and a separate paid package with the full bank. Check current access and pricing before deciding whether you need it.
Is the bank stored in the same proportions as the exam?
The bank covers every topic, but its inventory is not stored in the exam's exact proportions. The website's full simulation selects 100 questions in the official proportions; that is a property of the draw, not the bank's total inventory.
Is a 25-question score enough to judge readiness?
Use it to identify work for your next session. A short set cannot cover every objective, and a few questions can change its percentage considerably. Combine it with broader coverage, reviewed mistakes and a full timed attempt.
Do the practice questions follow the current Florida syllabus?
The topic map uses the DBPR Sales Associate Candidate Information Booklet effective January 2025. The booklet links the public legal references used for exam preparation. Rules and sample answers still need their own sources; following a topic list alone does not establish that every explanation is current.
Ready for a scored attempt?
Choose the free practice exam for timing and topic results. If you need more question variety for continued study, explore Pass Florida.
Methodology
The official candidate booklet supplies the exam format and percentages. Product descriptions were checked against the public practice modes and the site's question-bank inventory. The sample questions illustrate rules and standard real estate concepts; they are not a representative test or a validated predictor of performance. Pass Florida publishes this guide and offers the linked tools, which do not guarantee passage.
This page is educational exam preparation. For an actual licensing decision or transaction, use the relevant official instructions and qualified advice.
