Florida real estate broker exam, checked against DBPR
The broker exam is one test written by Florida’s licensing agency: 100 questions in 3.5 hours (210 minutes), and you pass with 75 of 100 points. It has no national portion to pass separately or bring from another state. By rule the points split 45 law · 40 principles and practices · 15 math, so Florida law and brokerage practice decide the result.
Updated Oct 24, 2026 · Not affiliated with any state commission or test provider.
100questions
3.5 hourstesting time
75 of 100to pass
46%pass on the first try (early 2025)
Try 4 broker exam questions
0 of 4 answered · 0 correct
Question 1 of 4 · Florida license law and FREC rules
Four sales associates apply for a Florida broker license this year. Which applicant meets the broker experience requirement?
Answer and explanations
Incorrect: Twelve months is half of the 24 months of active licensure the statute requires.
Incorrect: Tom has enough months, but they fall outside the 5-year look-back window, so none of them count.
Incorrect: Work as an unlicensed assistant is not time as an active licensee, however long it lasts.
Correct: Florida counts active sales associate time under a broker in any U.S. state, and 24 months within the preceding 5 years is exactly the minimum.
Question 2 of 4 · Florida license law and FREC rules
Diane passed the broker examination and was issued her Florida broker license in May 2025. What education must she complete before her first broker license renewal?
Answer and explanations
Incorrect: Forty-five hours is the sales associate post-licensing requirement, which Diane had to finish before she could be licensed as a broker.
Incorrect: The 14-hour continuing education cycle starts only after the first renewal; it does not replace post-licensing education.
Correct: A new broker owes 60 hours of post-licensing education before the first renewal; missing it makes the broker license null and void.
Incorrect: Twenty-eight hours is the course used to reactivate a license that has been involuntarily inactive for 12 to 24 months, not a first-renewal requirement.
Question 3 of 4 · Brokerage relationships and contracts · 17%
A Florida broker is completing a standard sale contract form for a buyer's offer. Which action would be the unauthorized practice of law?
Answer and explanations
Incorrect: Writing down facts the parties agreed on, such as which appliances stay, is ordinary form completion.
Incorrect: Filling the blanks of an approved form with the agreed business terms is permitted for licensees.
Correct: Explaining what a contract clause means legally is legal advice, which only a member of The Florida Bar may give.
Incorrect: Recommending an attorney is what a broker should do when legal questions come up; it is not practicing law.
Question 4 of 4 · Brokerage relationships and contracts · 17%
Sales associate Jen works for a firm that operates as single agents for buyers. In which situation must she give the single agent disclosure in writing?
Answer and explanations
Incorrect: A building with more than four units is not a residential sale under 475.278, so the disclosure rules do not apply.
Incorrect: A bona fide open house with no confidential information or negotiation is one of the statutory exemptions.
Incorrect: A casual inquiry about price, without confidential information or representation, is exempt from the disclosure requirement.
Correct: This is a residential sale, and the single agent notice must be given before the showing or the representation agreement, whichever comes first.
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The exam at a glance
Checked Oct 24, 2026; sources are numbered and listed at the end of the page. All exam rules, each with its source: exam facts. Fees in detail: cost.
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Detail
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Test provider
Florida DBPR writes the exam; Pearson VUE schedules, delivers and scores it
DBPR: Candidate Information Booklet, Real Estate Broker Examination (effective March 2024; archived copy) · Pearson VUE: Florida Real Estate and Appraiser fact sheet #091001 [1][2]
Scored questions
100 multiple-choice questions
DBPR: Candidate Information Booklet, Real Estate Broker Examination (effective March 2024; archived copy) [1]
National portion
None: one Florida exam, no national portion
DBPR: Candidate Information Booklet, Real Estate Broker Examination (effective March 2024; archived copy) [1]
Testing time
3.5 hours (210 minutes)
DBPR: Candidate Information Booklet, Real Estate Broker Examination (effective March 2024; archived copy) · Pearson VUE: Florida Real Estate and Appraiser fact sheet #091001 [1][2]
Passing score
75 of 100 pointsrule 61J2-2.029: 45 points law, 40 principles and practices, 15 math, as far as these can be separated
DBPR: Candidate Information Booklet, Real Estate Broker Examination (effective March 2024; archived copy) · Fla. Admin. Code 61J2-2 (examinations) [1][3]
A national portion. This is one state-written test, and a national score from another state’s salesperson exam does not shorten it. The multistate salesperson material is on the national portion.
The Florida law exam. Non-residents licensed by exam in one of the 10 states with mutual recognition take a shorter law-only test of 40 questions instead: who qualifies.
The DBPR content areas
DBPR prints twelve content areas; the table groups them the way this site does. The first, real estate brokerage business, carries 43% of the exam on its own, so this site splits it in two: license law and FREC rules and brokerage and escrow. DBPR publishes no split between those two halves, so they show no size. Financing, zoning and environmental issues are national topics and link to the national portion pages.
Each of the 100 questions is worth one point. Rule 61J2-2.029 sets the mix, as far as subjects can be separated: law, then principles and practices, then math (45/40/15). Two things follow from it.
Law is close to half the test. The law points come from chapter 475, chapter 455 and the FREC rules in 61J2, the three sources the candidate booklet lists first. Three of the five section pages here are Florida law: license law, brokerage and escrow and brokerage relationships and contracts.
The math is broker-level. Expect closing statements with Florida’s documentary stamp and intangible taxes, and investment returns: closing, valuation and investment. Area, commission and proration basics are on real estate math.
From Course II to a broker license
Experience:24 months as an active sales associate within the last 5 years.
Pre-license course:72-hour FREC Course II (50-minute hours), end-of-course exam 70%. A failed course exam can be retaken once, after at least 30 days and within a year; after that, the course is repeated.
Application and fingerprints go to DBPR; the fees as of Oct 2026 are on cost.
The exam is test center only, and the result report is handed to you at the center.
Post-licensing:60 hours before the first renewal, or the broker license becomes void.
What are the requirements to be a real estate broker in Florida?
Age and schooling:18 or older, high school diploma or equivalent. Then 24 months as an active sales associate, Course II and a passed exam. After the license, 60 hours of post-licensing before the first renewal. The full list: requirements.
What does the Florida broker exam consist of?
100 multiple-choice questions on twelve DBPR content areas, scored 45/40/15 for law, principles and practices, and math. There is no national part.
What percentage of people pass the broker exam?
DBPR’s monthly reports put it at 46% of first-time takers in January and February 2025. Repeat takers did worse: 29–30%. Details: pass rates.
Can I take the broker exam online?
No. In 2026 the exam is given only at physical Pearson VUE test centers. Older pages may say otherwise because the March 2024 booklet still describes an online-proctored option.