How to Prepare for California Real Estate Examinations: Salesperson, Broker, Appraiser (Paperback)

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Product Description

This updated test preparation manual covers the specific real estate licensing and appraisal certification qualifications that currently apply in the state of California. A subject review covers contracts, closing statements, and other significant topics related to California real estate law and practice. Applicants will also find six California real estate practice exams with questions answered and explained plus more than 1500 additional practice questions with answers. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

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Choose Barron’s Method for Success on the California Real Estate Exam

Read this book’s overview of the test and understand how it is timed and scored

Take advantage of the detailed review to brush up on California real estate law

Try to answer the practice questions and check your answers against those in the book

Take the book’s practice tests and score your results

Review the answers and explanations for all test questions

It’s Your Path To a Higher Test Score --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 458 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812093755
• ISBN-13: 978-0812093759
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 7.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,734,197 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars does not track exam content, November 16, 1999

By A Customer

I studied this book religiously. I got no less than 90% correct on all the practice exams, and then proceeded to bomb the exam. Obviously the material does not track the exam very well. It's cheap, but its true value is even less than the price. Don't buy it. (On the positive side, it had some interesting discussions of the law; but it simply does not track the content of the exam.)

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is unreliable, November 18, 1998

By A Customer

There are review questions which do not match the text in the chapters. I do not know whether to trust the content.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not for the exam, December 19, 2005

By	Ordinary buyer (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Prepare for the California Real Estate Exam: Salesperson, Broker, Appraiser (Barron's How to Prepare for the California Real Estate Exam) (Paperback)

I studied this book for my first broker's exam on December 14, 2005 at the Pasadena Center and failed. I solved and reviewed twice all the chapter problems and all of the exam sets in the book. I was very confident that I could answer correctly on all the questions in the book. But the questions on the actual exam were nothing like the ones in the book. The questions on the actual exam were much longer and harder. They required much deeper knowledge than what the book presented. It was like the authors never have seen the actual exam. This is a real estate knowledge book, not an exam prep book. I have wasted my time and money because of this book. What could an exam prep book do worse if a book not only does not help, but also misleads about the actual exam? Please do not buy this book to study for the exam. This is a shame on the famous name 'Barron's'. Do not be a victim like me. Hope my and my family's suffer would do some good by letting other people know not to buy this book.