Real Estate Exam Preparation

Real Estate License Exam Prep: National Portion

A practical, exam-focused path through the concepts, laws, math, and agency principles tested on the national real estate licensing exam.

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20
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20
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About the Real Estate License Exam Prep: National Portion Course

Prepare for the national portion of your Real Estate licensing exam with a clear, structured course designed to build confidence in the topics most commonly tested. This Real Estate License Exam Prep (National Portion) course gives you a practical, exam-focused path through the concepts, laws, math, and agency principles tested on the national real estate licensing exam.

Master The National Real Estate Exam With Focused Prep

  • Review the major Real Estate concepts tested on the national licensing exam in a logical, easy-to-follow sequence
  • Strengthen your understanding of property ownership, agency, contracts, finance, valuation, leasing, and closings
  • Build confidence with Real Estate math, legal descriptions, prorations, settlement statements, and exam-style reasoning
  • Learn practical test strategies for approaching national exam questions with clarity and accuracy

A practical, exam-focused path through the concepts, laws, math, and agency principles tested on the national real estate licensing exam.

This course is built for students preparing for the national portion of the Real Estate license exam and want a direct, organized review of the knowledge areas they are expected to understand. You will begin with exam orientation, then move through property foundations, ownership rights, estates, interests, encumbrances, liens, land measurement, legal descriptions, zoning, and land-use controls.

As the course progresses, you will study agency relationships, fiduciary duties, brokerage practice, disclosure, fair housing, civil rights, and anti-discrimination rules. You will also review Real Estate contracts, purchase agreements, contingencies, title, deeds, recording, transfer of ownership, financing fundamentals, mortgage concepts, lending laws, foreclosure basics, valuation, comparative market analysis, appraisal methods, investment basics, leases, property management, and landlord-tenant principles.

The course also emphasizes the calculation skills and transaction knowledge needed for exam success, including closing procedures, settlement statements, prorations, and Real Estate math. By the final review, you will have a stronger command of the national exam content, a clearer strategy for working through practice questions, and a more confident approach to earning your Real Estate license.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Exam Orientation

1 lesson

Lesson 1: How the National Real Estate Exam Is Structured

18 min Preview
This lesson orients students to the national portion of the real estate license exam: what it measures, how questions are usually presented, how the national portion differs from the state portion, an…

Property Foundations

3 lessons

Lesson 2: Real Property, Personal Property, and Ownership Rights

20 min
This lesson establishes the property vocabulary that appears throughout the national portion of the real estate license exam. Students learn how to distinguish real property from personal property, ho…

Lesson 3: Estates, Interests, Encumbrances, and Liens

22 min
This lesson explains the ownership rights and non-ownership interests that commonly appear on the national real estate licensing exam. Students learn how estates in land differ from encumbrances, how …

Lesson 4: Legal Descriptions, Land Measurement, and Property Boundaries

20 min
This lesson explains how real property is legally identified, measured, and bounded for national real estate exam purposes. Students learn the three major legal description systems, common land measur…

Property Regulation

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Government Powers, Zoning, and Land-Use Controls

21 min
This lesson covers the government powers and public land-use controls most often tested on the national real estate licensing exam. You will learn how police power, eminent domain, taxation, and esche…

Agency and Brokerage

2 lessons

Lesson 6: Agency Relationships and Fiduciary Duties

23 min
This lesson explains how agency relationships are created in real estate brokerage and what fiduciary duties an agent owes to a client. It focuses on the national exam vocabulary: client versus custom…

Lesson 7: Brokerage Practice, Disclosure, and Risk Management

21 min
This lesson connects agency duties to everyday brokerage practice: supervising licensees, handling advertising and records, making required disclosures, and reducing risk through clear documentation. …

Legal Compliance

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Fair Housing, Civil Rights, and Anti-Discrimination Rules

24 min
This lesson prepares students to recognize and apply the federal fair housing rules tested on the national real estate licensing exam. It focuses on the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866,…

Contracts and Transactions

2 lessons

Lesson 9: Real Estate Contracts and Required Elements

22 min
This lesson explains the contract principles most often tested on the national real estate licensing exam, with emphasis on what makes a contract valid, enforceable, void, voidable, or unenforceable. …

Lesson 10: Purchase Agreements, Contingencies, and Contract Performance

21 min
This lesson focuses on the purchase agreement as the central contract in a real estate transaction. Students learn the core clauses commonly tested on the national licensing exam, including price, par…

Ownership Transfer

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Title, Deeds, Recording, and Transfer of Ownership

22 min
This lesson explains how ownership moves from one party to another through title, deeds, delivery and acceptance, recording, and related transfer concepts. It focuses on the national exam rules candid…

Finance and Lending

2 lessons

Lesson 12: Financing Fundamentals and Mortgage Concepts

23 min
This lesson explains the financing concepts most often tested on the national real estate license exam: how mortgage loans are structured, how lenders evaluate borrowers and property, and how common l…

Lesson 13: Loan Types, Lending Laws, and Foreclosure Basics

22 min
This lesson explains the major loan types and financing rules commonly tested on the national real estate exam. It focuses on how conventional, government-backed, fixed-rate, adjustable-rate, amortize…

Valuation and Pricing

2 lessons

Lesson 14: Valuation Principles and Comparative Market Analysis

21 min
This lesson explains the valuation principles most commonly tested on the national real estate licensing exam and shows how they connect to pricing decisions in practice. Students will distinguish mar…

Lesson 15: Appraisal Methods and Investment Basics

20 min
This lesson explains the three major appraisal approaches tested on the national real estate licensing exam: sales comparison, cost, and income. Students learn when each approach is most appropriate, …

Leasing and Management

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Leases, Property Management, and Landlord-Tenant Concepts

21 min
This lesson covers the national exam concepts behind leases, property management, and landlord-tenant relationships. Students learn how leasehold estates differ from ownership estates, what terms comm…

Closings and Calculations

2 lessons

Lesson 17: Closing, Settlement Statements, and Prorations

23 min
This lesson explains what happens at closing, how settlement statements organize the money in a transaction, and how to solve common real estate license exam proration questions. Students will learn t…

Lesson 18: Real Estate Math for the National Exam

25 min
This lesson focuses on the math that most often appears in closing and settlement questions on the national real estate licensing exam. Students learn how to organize debits and credits, prorate recur…

Risk and Professional Practice

1 lesson

Lesson 19: Environmental Issues, Insurance, and Property Condition Concerns

20 min
This lesson prepares students for national exam questions involving environmental hazards, insurance concepts, and property condition concerns. It focuses on what license candidates must recognize: co…

Final Review

1 lesson

Lesson 20: National Exam Review Strategy and Practice Question Approach

24 min
This lesson gives students a practical final-review system for the national portion of the real estate licensing exam. It focuses on how to organize the last stretch of study, how to diagnose weak are…
About Your Instructor
Professor Michael Edwards

Professor Michael Edwards

Professor Michael Edwards guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.