Arkansas · Real estate exam prep
20 free Arkansas practice questions with no signup required. When you're ready for more, the full RealReady bank has 1,040 questions for the 2026 exam that cover both national principles and Arkansas law.
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Use this like a free Arkansas real estate practice test: read the question, commit to an answer, then tap to reveal the correct answer and a plain-English explanation. The ones you miss tell you where to focus next.
Correct: A 3 real estate, 1 consumer, 1 elderly consumer
AREC has 5 members: 3 must be active in real estate, 1 consumer representative, and 1 elderly consumer representative. All are appointed by the Governor.
Correct: B Listing property for sale for compensation
Listing, selling, buying, exchanging, or leasing real estate for compensation requires a license. Owners, attorneys acting within their practice, and court-appointed individuals are exempt.
Correct: A AREC must be notified of the change
Licensees must notify AREC of any change in principal broker affiliation. A transfer requires proper documentation but does not require re-examination.
Correct: A AREC investigates the complaint
AREC investigates complaints filed against licensees. The licensee is given notice and the opportunity to respond before any hearing or sanctions.
Correct: D Single agency (seller's agent)
When an agent exclusively represents the seller, this is single agency as a seller's agent. The same concept applies to buyer's agents who exclusively represent buyers.
Correct: C Absolute fidelity
Arkansas law requires agents to exercise 'absolute fidelity' to protect and promote their client's interests. This is a high standard codified in §17-42-316.
Correct: B At first contact with the other party
A buyer's agent must disclose the agency relationship at first contact with the seller or the seller's agent. (A seller's agent instead must disclose in a timely manner, before receiving confidential information from a buyer.) Oral disclosure must later be reduced to writing.
Correct: A Exactly one
Every Arkansas real estate firm has exactly one Principal Broker who is responsible for all business conducted by the firm and the activities of all licensees.
Correct: B 3 days, extended if day 3 is a weekend or holiday
AREC rules require trust funds to be deposited no later than three days following execution of the real estate contract by both seller and buyer. If the third day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the deadline extends to the next day that is not a weekend or holiday.
Correct: D The firm name as recorded with AREC
The firm name as recorded with AREC must appear in all advertising. AREC's advertising guidance also recommends keeping the firm name at least as prominent as any licensee, team, or DBA name.
Correct: B In writing to be enforceable
The Statute of Frauds requires all real estate agreements to be in writing to be enforceable. Oral real estate contracts are not enforceable in Arkansas.
Correct: C Caveat emptor (buyer beware)
Arkansas is a caveat emptor ('buyer beware') state with no mandatory statutory property disclosure requirement. Courts enforce caveat emptor clauses in purchase contracts.
Correct: C A broker's license or a property management broker license
Property management for compensation requires an AREC license: the traditional path through a broker's license, or, since Act 392 of 2025, a standalone property management broker license. Salespersons and PM associates may perform management activities only under supervising-broker authority, never independently.
Correct: C Register the timeshare plan with AREC
Under the Arkansas Time-Share Act (Title 18, Ch. 14), developers must register the timeshare plan with AREC before offering interests to consumers.
Correct: C 3 seats
Three of the five AREC seats must be held by people who have been active in real estate for at least five years. The other two seats are a consumer representative and a representative of the elderly, neither of whom may be in the real estate business.
Correct: B Yes, collecting rent for compensation requires one
Collecting rent for compensation is a licensed activity. The on-site residential manager exemption only applies to managers who reside at the property as part of their employment.
Correct: B A definite place of business with signage
Each firm must maintain a definite place of business identified by signage displaying the principal broker's name and firm name.
Correct: A Present evidence and call witnesses
Licensees have the right to present evidence and witnesses at AREC hearings. AREC can also subpoena records and witnesses for the hearing.
Correct: D A lessor agency relationship
Representing a landlord in lease negotiations creates lessor agency, the rental equivalent of seller's agency. Arkansas recognizes the same agency types for leases as for sales: lessor (seller-side) agency, lessee (buyer-side) agency, and dual agency.
Correct: C Present the offer to the seller promptly
The duty of absolute fidelity includes presenting all offers to the client. Agents cannot withhold or screen offers — that decision belongs to the client.
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About the exam
Most people walk into the Arkansas real estate exam braced for national principles, then lose their pass on the separately scored Arkansas-law portion. The Arkansas Real Estate Commission (AREC) scores the national and state portions separately, and the state portion is where most first-time candidates lose ground, so Arkansas-specific preparation matters as much as the national material.
Arkansas’s AREC structure and Real Estate Recovery Fund, mandatory written agency representation disclosure, broker trust-account and self-dealing rules, the requirement that sales contracts be in writing under Arkansas’s Statute of Frauds (and exclusive agency agreements under AREC rules), and the state’s particular advertising and time-share rules all show up on the state portion. None of that looks like the material a candidate in a neighboring state studies. A generic real estate practice test won’t cut it. You need Arkansas-specific practice questions.
FAQ
The Arkansas Real Estate Salesperson Examination has 110 scored questions. 80 of those are on the general portion (national real estate principles) and 30 are on the state portion (Arkansas law, rules, and Commission regulations). Pearson VUE also embeds a handful of unscored pretest questions in each portion that aren’t identified.
You need a scaled score of 70 on each portion, scored separately. The scaled score isn’t a raw percentage of questions correct, but a number adjusted across exam forms so candidates aren’t penalized for getting a harder version of the test. If you pass one portion and fail the other, you only have to retake the part you failed, within six months.
The Pearson VUE examination fee is $75 if you reserve both portions on the same cart, or $75 per portion if you schedule them separately. There’s also a $50 application fee paid to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission up front to receive your Authorization to Test. After you pass, AREC charges a $50 salesperson license fee plus a $25 Real Estate Recovery Fund contribution before issuing your license.
Pearson VUE allots between two and four hours total, depending on whether you take both portions in one sitting or split them. Booking both portions together gets you the full four-hour block. The state portion typically takes less time than the general portion since it’s only 30 scored items versus the general portion’s 80.
The Arkansas Real Estate Salesperson Examination is administered by Pearson VUE for the Arkansas Real Estate Commission (AREC). You register and schedule your exam date through Pearson VUE.
The state portion is harder than most candidates expect. The general portion is the same national content you’d see on any Pearson VUE real estate exam, but Arkansas’s 30 state-law questions are dense and the topics are narrower than the general portion’s syllabus, particularly around trust-account handling, written-agency disclosure, and AREC’s disciplinary powers. AREC and Pearson VUE don’t publish a first-time pass rate, but you’re authorized to retake either portion as many times as needed within your one-year approval window if you don’t pass on the first try.
The 80-question general portion covers eight national areas. Real estate contracts and agency is the heaviest at 20%, followed by real property characteristics and property valuation around 14% each, real estate practice at about 13%, forms of ownership and property disclosures both around 11%, and financing and math each at about 9%. The 30-question state portion is dominated by statutory requirements governing licensees, including trust accounts, advertising, and broker supervision (14 of 30 items), with agency relationships and disclosures (8 items), AREC powers and the Recovery Fund (4 items), other statutory requirements (2 items), and licensing requirements (2 items) rounding it out.
After finishing your 60-hour Arkansas pre-license course, the highest-leverage thing you can do is grind through Arkansas-specific practice questions with honest feedback on every miss. The general portion isn’t hard to prepare for if you’ve used any national prep tool, but the state portion is where Arkansas-specific question banks earn their keep. The RealReady app gives you the full bank of Arkansas questions, plus progress tracking and a missed-question mode so you can drill what you’re weak on.
The 20 Arkansas practice questions on this page are free, no account or signup needed. Unlocking the rest of the Arkansas bank is a single in-app purchase you pay once and own, with no recurring charge and no time limit on access.
Yes. RealReady has a dedicated Arkansas question bank built for the Arkansas real estate exam, covering the national principles every candidate sees plus the Arkansas law that trips people up, like the Real Estate Recovery Fund, the mandatory written agency representation disclosure, and the broker trust-account and self-dealing rules.
No. RealReady is exam practice, not a pre-license course, so it doesn't count toward Arkansas's required pre-license education hours. Use it after or alongside your coursework to drill realistic practice questions and find your weak spots before exam day.
