California Real Estate Exam Guide [Paperback]

Minnie Lush (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 430 pages
• Publisher: Dearborn Trade Pub; 4th edition (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793153115
• ISBN-13: 978-0793153114
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good solid secondary source to complement your prep, January 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: California Real Estate Exam Guide (Paperback)

For those of you currently preparing for the California real estate salesperson or brokers' exam(s), you're probably enrolled in a live or video course that already has its own books and materials that were included with it.

This book is a nice secondary addition to the primary materials that you alreadly likely have in place. That being said, I found this book to be extremely helpful to examine the various real estate principles one will face on the actual California real estate exam.

Often, I think many California realty students get too bogged down with materials generated by only one education company, professor, live lecture of video series, etc... and they forget that the California realtors examination covers a multitude of topics from many different angles.

I highly recommend that you buy and use this book as a direct and positive supplement to the core materials and/or educational sources that you've already been using while prepping for your California real estate exam.

Of particular value, if nothing else, in this book, is the Hot Tips/Hot Topics section of the book in which the authors have pleasantly reduced hundreds of nitbits regarding California law into exhaustive and easy to understand one-sentence blurbs. I found that cramming and/or memorizing these hot-tips on the last few nights before my actual exams were critical to my securing a passing grade.

Like other guidebooks, it comes with reams of practice questions, many that you've likely seen before--but as we all know, the secret to passing the California exam is practice, practice, practice. Buy this book. You wont regret it.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Used it, Passed the exam. What more can I say?, September 19, 2004

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roger c. (CA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: California Real Estate Exam Guide (Paperback)

Book is only good as the reader. If you find this book to be a waste of time and money, then so be it. Find another book. Good luck with your exam.

As for me, I used it along with 2 different exam guide books and found this one from Minnie Lush to be the most helpful. In fact, there were about 25 problems in the actual exam that were exactly the same as the ones I solved in this book. When you purchase this book, go through all 10 prep exams and memorize all the problems you answered WRONG. Those that you answered wrong will most likely to be in the actual exam. Actual exam is NOT a piece of cake. You actually have to work at it to pass it. Furthermore, HOT NOTES in the book are very helpful. Memorize them all.

Advice to all the examinees..... When taking the exam, don't worry about all the problems you are not sure about. Exam is set up so that you will lose confidence and even doubt yourself from the START. That's right... FROM THE START!!! Just remember this.. "Make sure to find 100 questions you can answer without any shred of doubt what so ever. As for the balance 45 problems, even if you choose "C" or "D" on all of them, you should at least get 10-15 of them right, which means you pass.

I hope this helps.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars pass this book if you want to pass the test, June 18, 2004

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K. Short (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: California Real Estate Exam Guide (Paperback)

I studied using practice tests that had been supplied to me by the professional school through which I had taken the Real Estate Principles course. I ordered Minnie Lush's book as a supplemental item and found it completely useless. In fact, during my last few days of "cramming" before taking the test, I found a question that was identical in two different books, and for which different answers were given. In a state of panic, I examined my study guides more carefully and decided to toss Minnie's book aside. I took the California salesperson test on June 14th for the first time, after using mainly a prep book from Anthony Schools, and PASSED.
Looking back, I see that Minnie's questions were vague in their wording and apparently incorrect in some instances. I would not recommend this book to anyone preparing for the state exam.