How to Pass Your Real Estate Exam in 5 Days | Ontario Humber Real Estate

So you signed up to get your real estate license and it’s taking longer than you thought. Don’t worry, below you’ll find out the exact strategy that I used to pass the first course in only 5 days and how you can use the same technique to pass all your real estate exams and get licensed in just 3 months.

Getting through the course this fast isn’t about just fast-tracking, it’s about being consistent and committed to long hours of study in a short period of time. If you can afford to overload your study time for a few days, then you’ll fly through any real estate exam. However, there are a lot of ways to make your job easier based on my personal experience and the hundreds of students I’ve tutored.

How to Pass Your Real Estate Exam in 5 Days (Day-by-Day Breakdown)

Getting your real estate license starts with Course 1. If you’re not sure how many courses there are and exactly what to do to get started, you can check out another post I wrote on How to Get Your Real Estate License. For visual learners, you’ll find a more detailed breakdown in my Youtube video on the same topic.

Day 1: Booking Your Real Estate Exam

Now to even begin your real estate exam prep, you’ll need to buy the course and start looking through the content. Now for me, I started with the intention that I was going to do this exam by the end of the week.

But, keep in mind, to book your real estate exam, you have to get through the enormous amount of slides in the course. This meant that for me to do this exam by the end of the week, I knew I had to book the exam as soon as possible so that I could get the date I wanted. So I took most of Day 1 to just click through the entire Humber Course modules. This took about 6 hours for Course 1 and was extremely tedious and tiring.

The thing that took me the most time by far is the activities that appear sporadically throughout the modules, which I also did my best to click through as fast as possible. And don’t worry about studying the slides or reading them too thoroughly at this point because we’re going to come back to that later.

Now if you’re thinking, how the heck am I supposed to study without the slides? Well, that brings us to the next part which is Days 2-4.

Days 2-4: How to Study for Your Real Estate Exam

On Day 2, I began studying for my real estate exam. Now for different courses, it may take you longer than a day to click through all the modules so budget additional time for that if needed.

Also note that when you’re studying for these courses, different techniques will work for different people. I used to be a pretty good student (at least I hope so), so I knew how exactly I studied best and I used that to my advantage to learn the material as fast as possible.

So for many of you, the first exam might be an area of trial and error to find out how you study best. And I would encourage you to do your best to find that out so that in the later course, where it gets a bit more tricky, you’ll know exactly what to do.

Use Real Estate Exam Study Notes

For me, this mainly looked like taking my own notes. Now this isn’t always the best strategy. For the longer courses, I would recommend using pre-written notes instead (both of which you can find on the sidebar).

So what I did was split the day into 1-2 hour blocks and I went through the module slides again, starting from the first, and started jotting down whatever I thought was important. So this meant the main ideas, summarizing long paragraphs in my own words, skimming, and bullet points wherever possible. I would also do my best to skip repetition and keep my notes as succinct as possible to make sure I wasn’t wasting my time anywhere.

Additionally, while taking these notes, I never really set a module goal, as in how many modules I wanted to complete that day, because I was just focused on doing as many as I could within the day. After Day 2 I had a good idea of how long each module was going to take me, so I could kind of judge whether I was on track to finish my notes within the timeframe I had or not. Some courses may take longer than 5 days or will require you to put in more hours to meet that deadline.

Remember, we only need 75% to pass, we don’t have to know absolutely everything!

Join a Real Estate Exam Study Community

Now once you get started with the notes, you’ll also want to get advice from previous test-takers. The best place for this is the online Facebook Groups. If you aren’t already a part of one, you can join one that I created with thousands of students and tons of free notes and tips for all courses. This will help you have a good idea of what to expect from the courses.

Come Day 3, you should begin using practice questions and using a technique called Active Recall. This method involves reading through the notes you just made and testing yourself on how well you can explain the same concepts out loud, in your own words. This helps actively engage your brain while studying instead of falling asleep when simply reading the notes. Pair this with practice questions from the Humber module slides or other tools like passit, and you’ll be well on your way. If you haven’t already, you can grab a free set of practice questions to kickstart your study session here.

By Day 4, using these techniques, you should be pretty confident in the material and you can now start getting friends and family members to test you on random concepts throughout the entire course based on the notes you studied. This will be crucial to highlight areas that you need to study more especially because it’ll be random so you won’t be able to memorize and regurgitate your answers as well.

Day 5: The Best Real Estate Exam Strategy

Ok, now this brings us to Day 5 which is exam day. Exam day comes with a lot of nervousness, anxiety, and most of all, fear. Most people go into their real estate exams hoping they’ll pass. With these study strategies I gave you, you shouldn’t be one of those people. You should be going into your exam either confident you’ll pass or confident you’ll fail, simply because you know exactly how well you are ACTUALLY prepared.

However, there are still a few things you can do on exam day to sway the odds in your favor. Naturally, you’ll want to get a good night’s rest and have a good breakfast before your exam. This will help you stay focused so that you can get through the questions as quickly as possible.

My Exact Real Estate Exam Strategy

Now for the exam itself, you’ll want to follow a clear exam strategy. Here’s the breakdown of mine:

1. Answer all the easy questions first
2. Stay between 1-2 minutes for every question
3. Bookmark any confusing or hard questions
4. Review bookmarks only! (don’t review all your answers)

That’s it. Just three easy steps.

The first step addresses the fact that most people make the most mistakes within the first 15 minutes of an exam. This will help solve that by helping you keep your momentum and your confidence. Keeping between 1-2 minutes for each question will keep you from making easy mistakes by moving too quickly, or overthinking by taking too long.

Next, bookmarking the hard and confusing questions will help you to remember exactly what questions to come back and review and again, keep the momentum going. The momentum is so important because once your momentum breaks, it’s very difficult to get it back and many people have blanked on exams such as these – so make sure you use your bookmarks.

The last one is to review only your bookmarked questions and not the entire test. I can’t tell you how many students I’ve tutored who mentioned failing an exam by a few marks simply because they reviewed all of their answers and made 20-30 last-minute changes – don’t do it!

There you have it. That’s how I passed the Humber Real Estate Course 1 exam in 5 days, and using these exact same techniques, I’ve helped hundreds of other students pass their exams in as little as a few days. If you know anyone taking the real estate courses now, don’t forget to share this with them, and be sure to check out my Youtube channel where I release weekly videos to help you get licensed ASAP.