The New York
77-hour real estate course

Why the syllabus matters more than it looks

New York publishes no question count and no passing mark for the exam. What it does publish is the course, subject by subject, with the hours attached to each. That makes the syllabus the only official guide to what the paper emphasizes, which is why our forms are weighted from it rather than from anybody's guess.

The hours drive the questions

Convert the hours to questions and you get the shape of the paper. Law of Agency, Legal Issues and Land Use each come out around 10 questions of 75; License Law and Contracts come out around 3 each. That is not because contracts matter less in the job. It is because the state allots fewer teaching hours to them.

The state also sets hours inside a subject

The syllabus does not stop at subject totals. Several subjects carry their own internal splits, and the regulation's hours table lists every mandated block again. Some of them are easy to miss in the chapter prose: predatory lending, the difference between an independent contractor and an employee, the Property Condition Disclosure Act, and assessment exemptions, which is two of the three hours given to taxes.

Continuing education is a separate thing

The 77 hours are qualifying education, taken once, before you are licensed. Continuing education is 22.5 hours per renewal cycle, with its own mandated minimums inside it, including at least one hour on the law of agency and two hours in the case of a salesperson's initial two-year term.

The course ends with an exam of its own

The school sets a proctored examination, and it is required in addition to the Department's. It is set from this same curriculum, so the subjects above are the subjects for both, but the papers are written by different people.

Practicing against the weighting

Our salesperson forms follow the table above question for question, so a practice score tells you where you stand against the distribution the state actually publishes. Sections can be sat one at a time, which is the sensible way to use them while you are still partway through the course.

Because our forms are weighted from this syllabus, a practice score tells you where you stand against the only distribution the state actually publishes. Start with ten free questions on the samples page.