I just passed my ID real estate exam. What are the next steps?
Congratulations on passing the Idaho real estate salesperson licensing exam. You will want to concurrently do two things. First, make sure you get your fingerprints taken to run the background check for your license. Background checks can take from one week to 12 weeks to process and are good for six months. At the same time, you will want to be interviewing and be hired by an Idaho licensed broker. You must be hired by a broker who will activate your license.
The Idaho Real Estate Commission will issue you a license on inactive status. Your hiring broker will go online to activate your license.
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The Idaho Salesperson Pre-licensure Exam consists of two sections. The National section will ask 80 multiple-choice questions. The State section will ask 40 multiple-choice questions. There may be 5-10 experimental questions that don’t count for your score.
You will be tested on national and state real estate-related content. Topics include property ownership, financing, valuation and appraisal, property disclosures, and contracts. State-specific questions ask about the Commission, licensing law, real estate calculations, and Idaho practices.
You will need to bring (2) forms of identification. One must be state or federal government-issued, like a driver’s license or passport. The secondary form can be another primary ID or something which contains your signature, like a credit or debit card.
Yes, all Pearson VUE test sites provide accommodations following the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). A candidate who needs testing accommodations must visit http://pearsonvue.com/accommodations to start the request process.
PearsonVUE will only allow approved items into the examination room. Electronic devices of any type, including personal calculators, are not permitted. As part of the check-in process, all testing candidates will be photographed and asked to sign a Candidate Rules Agreement.
Your state licensing exam results are only good for one year. You will need to complete the remaining steps in the process, including getting fingerprinted for your background check and being hired by an Idaho license broker, before that year is up.
The next steps in obtaining an ID real estate salesperson license are: ● Get fingerprinted for a background check ● Set up an online services account ● Purchase errors and omissions insurance ● Be hired by an Idaho license broker ● Submit your license application
You must submit your state licensing exam score report with your license application. In this way, the commission will know that you have passed the exam.
You can take the state licensing exam as many times as you need as long as you do the retakes while your certificate of completion is still valid. If you are just retaking one section of the exam, you have to retake the other section within one year of the date you passed that one section.
The good news is you will leave the test center with an official score report in hand. Your exam results will appear on screen as soon as you complete the task, so there are no questions about how you performed.
Yes, you can retake the Idaho real estate salesperson exam. If you fail just one section, you have one year to retake the failed section. Otherwise, you need to retake the exam while your course of completion certificate is still valid.
You need to wait 24 hours before rescheduling any state licensing exam. Once that period has passed, you can go online to your Pearson VUE account and reschedule your exam. You will need to pay the full $80 exam fee again.
No, you can just retake the section that you failed. Keep in mind you have to pass that section within one year of the date that you passed the other section. You also need to apply for licensure within that one-year date.