Arkansas Real Estate Crash Course and Exam Prep

Applicants must schedule their exam by calling 800-274-2606or by visiting www.pearsonvue.com.

Applicants will not be permitted to take the exam without first submitting an application to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission and obtaining a Certificate of Exam Eligibility.

Current Processing Timeframes: Licenses are typically processed in 5 to 10 business days.

Salesperson Exam

• An applicant must be at least 18years of age, and:
• Have successfully completed 60 classroom hours of real estate education of which 30 classroom hours must be in the basic principles of real estate, from an accredited post-secondary school or a school or organization licensed by the Arkansas Real Estate Commission
• Have submitted a salesperson application to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission including information necessary for state and federal background checks; information on obtaining a background check can be found here
• Have paid $86.25 exam fee ($161.25 for non-Arkansas residents)

Broker Exam

• An applicant must be at least 18years of age, and:
• Have successfully completed 60 hours of real estate education, of which 45 hours must be the commission developed Broker Pre-License Education course, from an accredited post-secondary school or a school or organization licensed by the Arkansas Real EstateCommission within 36 months immediately preceding the date they apply to take the broker's exam
• Have been licensed as an active real estate salesperson or broker for a period of not less than 24 months within the previous 48 month period immediately preceding the date of application; however, upon written request such experience requirement may be waived for a real estate broker applicant who has held an active real estate broker license for a period of not less than 18 months: (if experience requirement was met in another jurisdiction, please furnish an official license history from that jurisdiction) or has experience acceptable to the commission in a field considered real estate related for a period of not less than 24 months within the previous 48 month period immediately preceding the date of application (must submit a written history of experience for review by the commission)
• Submitted a broker application to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission including information necessary for state and federal background checks; information about obtaining a background check can be found here
• Have paid $86.25 exam fee ($181.25 for non-Arkansas residents)

All candidates will have 4 hours to complete the examination.

Salesperson Examination: The salesperson exam consists of 85 national questions and 40 state law questions.

Broker Examination: The broker exam consists of one portion with 130 questions.

The exam is given in Little Rock; Springdale; Texarkana; Camden; El Dorado; Fayetteville; Fort Smith; Jonesboro; Harrison; Mountain Home; Newport; Warren; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Memphis, Tennessee. The real estate exam is administered by Pearson VUE and is given electronically.

• Arkansas Salesperson Content Outline (Pages 15-19)
• Arkansas Broker Exam Content Outline (Pages 19-20)

Because there are questions with varying degrees of difficulty on each exam, a statistical procedure known as equating is used in grading the exams. This is done to ensure that no candidate is put at an unfair advantage or disadvantage due to the particular questions they receive on the exam. Raw scores are converted into scaled scores that range from 0 to 100. To pass the exam, a candidate must make at least 70% on the exam, although numeric scores are only reported to failing candidates.

All candidates must provide 2 forms of signature identification, one of which must be government-issued and photo-bearing, as well as the Certificate of Examination Eligibility from AREC.

Primary ID (with photograph and signature and must be current) can be any of the following:

• Government-issued driver's license
• US State Department driver's license
• US Learner's Permit
• National/State/Country ID card
• Passport
• Passport card
• Military ID
• Military ID for spouses or dependents
• Alien Registration Card

Secondary ID (with signature and current) can be any of the following:

• US Social Security card
• Debit or credit card
• Any form of ID from the Primary ID list    

• Arkansas Real Estate Candidate Handbook
• Pre-License Education Providers
• License Application Brochure