Questions & Answers to Help You Pass the Real Estate Exam [Paperback]

John Reilly (Author), Paige bovee Vitousek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 28, 2005 | ISBN-10: 1419500929 | ISBN-13: 978-1419500923 | Edition: 7

One of the most popular exam guides available today. Thousands of pre-licensing students have used the previous editions to help them score high on the real estate exam. This new edition, with revised and up-to-date questions and answers, is perfect for self-study or review. The authors have applied their extensive experience in teaching real estate to the formulation of more than 1,000 sample test questions with full, detailed answers, all written in the ASI style. "Quick Practice" questions are coded throughout each chapter to allow students to skip topics they have mastered.

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"I've used no less than ten different books ... for exam preparation. I truly believe this book to be the best." -- La Vern Kohl, GRI, CRB, Action School of Real Estate, Inc., Springfield, Missouri

"... the best supplemental text we've used. It closes gaps in mastering the topics a main text might fail to satisfy." -- Charles A. Bergeron, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 382 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 7 edition (April 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419500929
• ISBN-13: 978-1419500923
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #942,208 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book...If You Don't Look at Math Problems, November 1, 2004

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Anil K. Bhatia (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Questions & Answers to Help You Pass the Real Estate Exam (Paperback)

I recently passed my Real Estate Salesperson exam. I used this book for review exercise. After reading the book I felt confident enough to tackle challenging questions. I was able to finish the national section with 20 minutes to spare!

Each section of the book has a glossary of terms and ends with a "False Friends" (a list of oft-confused terms) subsection. For those in hurry, the book has a selection of representative questions in grey boxes. Review those and you will have a feel for the questions on that section. There are a few separate review exams for salespersons and brokers. I found that questions were probing and required a good understanding of a chapter. Compared to these, the real text book end-of-chapter questions looked like kid stuff. The book is recommended for all those taking national portion of the real estate related exams, sales persons or associate/broker.

The book is not without its weaknesses. As alluded to above, the book does not touch state portion of the exams. But that is not nothing compared to its handling of math probems. The readers are advised to ignore the math section altogether. Questions suffer from inaccuracies (e.g. the diagram of two adjacents rectangles with equal width shows length of the bigger rectangle less than that of smaller one.) Explanations for math problems have so many problems, that after spending an hour on math section I decided to forget it (I found 8 errors in an hour; and I am not a math genius.) Sometimes it looked like a poor case of cut and paste: answer for question 7 contained figures from (unrelated) question 6! Still the solution would come out correct. On page 260, ten percent of 87000 comes out 8800. I could go on. I have returned the book to library otherwise I would have given more examples.

An email to authors sent a month back has gone unanswered. You go figure!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars math review terrible, March 15, 2005

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realtor - See all my reviews

This review is from: Questions & Answers to Help You Pass the Real Estate Exam (Paperback)

i agree with the original posting.

after purchasing this book,

it looks like the authors and editors failed to review their own work.

questions full of errors ( their explanations showed they transposed numbers etc.)

only AFTER one works thru the problem,

then goes to their explanation to find out the original question is not answered !

i would opt for a different book.

besides this book is too outdated !!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars [National] Questions & Answers to Help You Pass the Real Estate Exam, February 1, 2011

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Gem - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Questions & Answers to Help You Pass the Real Estate Exam (Paperback)

I recommend reading the review by Anil K. Bhatia who covered this book very well. I am only adding details to help potential buyers. This book separates real estate into different topics so that students can concentrate on their weakest areas. It has OVER 1,800 questions with answer explanations. The questions have been divided into eighteen different chapters by subject area. This saves you time when you are preparing for the Salesperson or Broker's License. It also makes it possible to use this book to supplement your real estate classes. [ISBN-10: 079-313-5826] ~ Questions & Answers to Help You Pass the Real Estate Exam or [ISBN-10: 141-953-7369] ~ Q&A to Help You Pass the RE Exam CD-ROM or [ISBN-10: 079-314-4280] ~ Modern Real Estate Practice or [ISBN-10: 013-376-0707] ~ Handbook of Real Estate Terms Revised or [ISBN-10: 093-477-272X] ~ Plain English Real Estate Dictionary or [ISBN-10: 094-183-3585] ~ Terms and Definitions Audio Cassettes with Workbook