Pearson just sent out the annual statistics for the Florida real estate exam.  For fiscal year 2026, here are a few interesting highlights:

  • 51,351 took the sales associate exam
  • Pass rate for first time takers was 48%
  • Pass rate for repeaters was 32%
  • Overall pass rate was 40%

 

For brokers, here are the highlights:

  • 5,127 took the broker exam
  • Pass rate for first-time takers was 45%
  • Pass rate for repeaters was 285%
  • Overall pass rate is 35%

 

A few other things that I found interesting:

  • For all the real estate exam combined, more than 10% of test-takers are no shows. Another 2% cancel.  Why do so many people schedule, then forfeit their money?  I understand emergencies, but 10% of the people do no have a last-minute emergency.
  • For the sales associate exam, almost 25,000 took it once. A little more than 26,000 repeated.  If the only people who repeated were people who were included in the original 25,000, that means that about half of the repeaters pass on the second time and half on the third time.  However, I’m making a ton of assumptions to draw that conclusion.  I wish we had the raw data so we could perform a better analysis.

 

Pearson and the DBPR know which questions people get right and wrong.  If too many people pass, they can swap out questions to make it more difficult.  If not enough people are passing, they can swap out questions to make it easier.  In other words, the pass rate is exactly where they want it to be.

One of the biggest reasons that people fail is that they don’t do enough practice questions before they take the exam.  They think that reading slides and watching videos is enough.  It’s not.  You have to do practice questions, and you have to do a lot of them.

If you are looking for the best practice questions that are available for the Florida real estate exam, check out Real Estate Exam Prep Florida, the newly released app developed by Karen Climer and Demetree School of Real Estate.

 

Please note that Karen Climer has no affiliation with Climer School of Real Estate.  Her father, Ron Climer, sold Climer School of Real Estate in 2014.  It has since been involved in several mergers and acquisitions and is owned by a large investment company.  Karen owns Demetree School of Real Estate in Orlando, Florida.