Pass Your Missouri Real Estate Exam the First Time
Missouri requires 72 hours of pre-licensing education. If you work Kansas City, consider dual licensing in Kansas! The exam tests Missouri's seller disclosure requirements and the Missouri Real Estate Commission regulations extensively.
Questions
140
100 NAT / 40 STATE
To Pass
70%
70% NAT / 75% STATE
Time Limit
4.5 Hrs
270 TOTAL MINUTES
Provider
PSI
MREC
Pass your Missouri Salesperson or Broker License
Missouri allows dual agency, designated agency, and transaction brokerage simultaneously, and the exam tests which framework applies in each scenario directly.
Courses that teach agency from a single model cannot prepare candidates for an exam that requires knowing three distinct consent frameworks and when each applies. AI generated question banks average across state rules and produce questions that reflect an imaginary national standard. Missouri’s exam tests the actual Missouri rules, and those rules require Missouri specific preparation.
The License Professor is written by licensed Missouri professionals who built questions around PSI state portion priorities. Every question on Missouri’s agency framework, Broker Disclosure Act requirements, and closing math conventions is drawn from Missouri statute.
Missouri Sample Exams
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Salesperson
Individuals new to real estate who want to start their career helping clients buy and sell property
Broker
Experienced professionals who want to operate independently or run their own brokerage
Three Topics that Trip Up Missouri Students Most
Missouri Broker Disclosure Act
The Broker Disclosure Form must be delivered at earliest practicable opportunity during or after first substantial contact — students miss that this form is purely informational and does not create an agency relationship.
Read more →Dual Agency vs. Designated
Missouri allows both dual agency and designated agency — dual agency requires written consent from all parties while designated agency assigns different licensees within the same firm to each side, and confusing these two is the most common state-portion mistake.
Transaction Broker Duties
Missouri’s transaction broker provides services without an agency or fiduciary relationship, and there is no imputation of knowledge between the parties and the broker — students who apply fiduciary duty concepts answer incorrectly every time.
The Missouri Real Estate License Professor includes specialized deep dives for each of these.
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Missouri Real Estate Practice Questions
Sample questions from the Missouri real estate exam — with answers and explanations.
1. A real estate agent shows fewer properties to a Black couple than to similar white buyers. This is an example of:
- A.Disparate impact
- B.Redlining
- C.Blockbusting
- D.Steering
2. At what time must a licensee give prospective buyers/tenants the Missouri Broker Disclosure Form?
- A.At or before closing.
- B.During the hosting of an open house.
- C.Prior to showing any property.
- D.Concurrent with the submission of any offers.
3. How many hours of continuing education are required to renew a Missouri real estate license?
- A.8
- B.10
- C.12
- D.15
More on Missouri Licensing
Deeper reading on the topics that matter most for Missouri candidates.
How to Get Your Missouri License
Requirements, costs, and steps to get licensed in Missouri.
Read more →Missouri Exam Study Plan
A realistic plan to pass the Missouri real estate exam.
Read more →Missouri Business Conduct and Practices: What the Exam Actually Tests
What the Missouri exam tests on this topic.
Read more →Missouri Broker Disclosure Form Has a Specific Trigger
Missouri broker disclosure triggers at first substantive contact, not first showing. The PSI exam tests the timing, form requirements, and delivery methods.
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Missouri Real Estate Exam Structure: What to Expect
Missouri's Salesperson exam combines 100 national questions and 40 Missouri-specific questions — 140 scored questions total, more than most states — in 270 minutes.
Question breakdown and passing thresholds
National portion: 100 questions, 150 minutes, 70% passing (70 points)
Contracts (19%) and Agency (13%) are the largest national categories.
Missouri portion: 40 questions, 120 minutes, 75% passing (30 points)
- General Rules (2 items)
- Licenses (7 items)
- Educational Requirements (2 items)
- Business Conduct and Practices (17 items) — the dominant category
- Disciplinary Proceedings (6 items)
- Brokerage Relationships (6 items)
Cost structure
- Salesperson Course (48 hours pre-exam): $300-$600
- Exam (both portions): $52
- License application: $65
- Background check: ~$45
- MREP course (24 hours, post-exam): included in application timeline
- Total: $462-$762
Retake rules
Retake only the portion you failed — $52 flat, the same fee whether retaking one or both portions. Registration expires one year after registering.
If you're taking the Broker exam
The Missouri Broker exam is 165 questions (90 national + 75 state) in 270 minutes — the same time limit as the Salesperson exam despite more state-portion content. The national portion is weighted: some items score up to two points, so the real points pool is 175, not 165. You need 75% of that pool (131 points) to pass, a higher bar than the Salesperson exam's 70%. Broker content shifts toward supervision, trust accounts, and brokerage management. Source: PSI Missouri Real Estate Candidate Handbook (bulletin 4673, Copyright 2024, 7/18/2024), Examination Summary Table.
Topics Covered on the Missouri Real Estate Exam
National Exam Topics (100 questions, by weight)
- Property Ownership (10%)
- Land Use Controls (5%)
- Valuation (8%)
- Financing (10%)
- Contracts (19%) — the largest national category
- Agency (13%)
- Property Disclosures (7%)
- Property Management (3-5%)
- Transfer of Title (6%)
- Practice of Real Estate (12%)
- Real Estate Calculations (6-7%)
Missouri State Exam Topics (40 questions)
- General Rules (2 items) — definitions, disputes
- Licenses (7 items) — applications, renewal, broker-salesperson relationship
- Educational Requirements (2 items) — Salesperson Course, CE
- Business Conduct and Practices (17 items) — over a third of the state exam: advertising, listings, earnest money, standard forms, closings
- Disciplinary Proceedings (6 items) — complaints, the Administrative Hearing Commission
- Brokerage Relationships (6 items) — agency disclosure, dual agency
Why this list matters
Business Conduct and Practices alone is nearly half the state exam. Earnest money disputes, standard forms, and commission rules within this category deserve outsized study time.
What this list doesn't tell you
Missouri's separate Administrative Hearing Commission is a genuinely distinctive structural detail — most states resolve all disciplinary matters through the real estate commission itself, without a second administrative body involved.
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