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Texas Real Estate Sales Exam, Second Edition

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I used this guide exclusively in my prep for the exam; in fact, I didn't study ANYTHING else. I got an 86% on the national exam and HERE's the bad part - a 70% on the state exam. I did pass, but I felt that the material was a little weak with respect to the state portion. I can vouch for the tech support though; I had a problem the night before my exam and the software support man contacted me with a response to my problem within 3 hours of my email to him, at 11 o'clock at night! That type of support is scarce these days! In retrospect, I would highly recommend this guide, but also perhaps another one to help you with the Texas portion of the test. Good luck!

I found the CD practice exams to be an effective computer based review/prep process. Nevertheless, I was extremely disappointed with the number of errors contained within their own questions. Either the Texas exam contains these same errors or this publisher needs a new editor. If they assigned a unique question ID number to each question, it would be a simple matter for readers to point out the errors. Generally disappointed with the overall quality and price. The Austin reviewer sounds like he works for the author.

This book did not cover much of what I expected. It covers subjects on fitness and well-being. These subjects should not be part of an exam practice book. I went to the public libary and found much better practice workbooks written by Charles J. Jacobus. Not too pleased with my purchase.

This book has four sample tests. Although a few of the questions are not worded well making determining the correct answers difficult, I'm assuming they got the sample questions from old real estate sales exams, sooooo. Taking the four tests really helped me target my weak points and were "right on" in predicting how I'd do on the real test. After taking the first practice test, I studied all questions, both right and wrong, to ensure that I knew the correct answers to the questions I'd guessed at and got right in addition to the ones I got wrong. I got 84% on the first exam. Then improved my score on the second one to 89%. Got 88% on the third, and 90% on the fourth. This gave me confidence in my ability to pass the real test the first time around. It surprised me that even though I studied after each sample test by utilizing the book's guide that points out the areas to study based on the questions answered wrong, I struggled to get my score up to 90% and then just barely made it on the last sample test. This means that the questions on each of the four tests are sufficiently different to make them four good evaluations. I took the real thing this afternoon and got 88% on the theory test and 88% on the law test, the first time around. Not the 90% or better I always shoot for on tests but without a doubt, better than I would have gotten without this book. I'm guessing that utilizing this book probably raised the scores I would have gotten without it by about 8 - 10 points.

I recommend this book highly.

I felt the book was a very help tool in studying for the Texas Real Estate Exam. It is very simple and comes with a great CD disk to help you practice. It had only one really stupid section and that was about starting a diet and fitness regime and had a chart for you to track your progress in that area. Practice exams covered what I learned in class...