Vermont · Real estate exam prep
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Correct: C Office of Professional Regulation
The Vermont Real Estate Commission operates under the Office of Professional Regulation (OPR), which falls under the Secretary of State's office.
Correct: C No, property owners are exempt
Property owners selling their own real estate are exempt from Vermont licensing (26 V.S.A. § 2211(b)). A license is required only when a person, for another and for compensation, lists, sells, buys, exchanges, negotiates, or deals in options on real estate as a continuing course of conduct.
Correct: B Commingling of funds
Commingling — mixing client trust funds with the licensee's own — is expressly unprofessional conduct under 26 V.S.A. § 2296(1), except for the nominal sums of the licensee's own funds needed to keep the trust account open. Depositing earnest money into a personal account is a textbook violation.
Correct: A At first reasonable opportunity
Commission Rule 4.6(b) requires a brokerage firm and its licensees to give any unrepresented person with whom they have substantial contact a copy of the Commission's current consumer disclosure form at the first reasonable opportunity, and in any event before entering into a brokerage service agreement or showing a property. A new form is required if more than 12 months have passed (Rule 4.6(c)).
Correct: D No, must work under a broker
Every Vermont licensee must be associated with a single registered brokerage firm and work under the supervision and training of the principal broker or broker in charge (Rules 2.3(c) and 4.2(b)). A salesperson cannot open an independent office or hold trust funds.
Correct: C Within 5 banking days after both parties execute the P&S
Commission Rule 4.7(b): all deposits held as escrow agent under a purchase and sale agreement must be deposited in the firm's trust or escrow account not later than five banking days after the P&S agreement is executed by both seller and buyer. 26 V.S.A. § 2214(a) sets the same five-banking-day standard.
Correct: C No, the brokerage firm name must be included
Every real estate advertisement — print, internet, email, electronic media, business cards, and signs — must conspicuously display the brokerage firm's registered name, and that name must be the most prominent and largest identifier on the ad (Rule 4.12(a)). Social media posts are advertising under Rule 1.8(a).
Correct: A No, Vermont does not mandate state forms
Vermont does not promulgate listing forms; the Vermont Association of REALTORS® supplies the standard forms most licensees use. But Commission Rule 4.9(a) does dictate the form's identity: each type of seller service agreement must be on a separate form headed in boldface with exactly one of NONEXCLUSIVE (OPEN) AGENCY MARKETING AGREEMENT, EXCLUSIVE AGENCY MARKETING AGREEMENT, or EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO MARKET AGREEMENT. Net listings are prohibited outright (Rule 4.8(e)).
Correct: C Known conditions based on the seller's personal knowledge
Vermont has no statute mandating a seller disclosure form. The SPIR is the Vermont Association of REALTORS® form used by custom in most transactions, and it asks only about conditions within the seller's personal knowledge. It is not a warranty and does not obligate the seller to inspect. The enforceable duty is the licensee's duty to disclose material facts (Rule 4.5; 26 V.S.A. § 2296(4)) and the seller's common-law duty not to misrepresent or conceal a known material defect.
Correct: B 0.5%
Vermont's property transfer tax for a principal residence is 0.5% on the first $200,000 of value. This reduced rate benefits primary homeowners and is exempt from the additional clean water surcharge that applies to amounts above $200,000.
Correct: B The land gains tax
Vermont's land gains tax (32 V.S.A. ch. 236) reaches gains from the sale of Vermont land that the transferor both purchased and subdivided within six years before the sale. Since Act 175 (H.541, effective January 1, 2020) narrowed the definition of 'land,' land that was NOT subdivided by the transferor is outside the tax no matter how briefly it was held.
Correct: B No, age 18+ is a protected class in VT
Age is a protected class under 9 V.S.A. § 4503, and federal fair housing law has no age class at all. Vermont's only age-related carve-outs are refusing to rent to a person under the age of majority (§ 4504(3)) and qualified senior housing (62+, or 55+ communities meeting the statutory tests) under § 4503(b).
Correct: C Regulate major land developments
Act 250, enacted in 1970, is one of the most comprehensive state-level land use laws in the nation. It requires permits for major developments and subdivisions, evaluating projects against 10 environmental and community criteria.
Correct: A There is no statewide cap on the amount
Vermont's security deposit law, 9 V.S.A. § 4461, sets no statewide limit on the amount a landlord may collect. It governs how deposits are held and returned, not their size. A few municipalities such as Burlington cap deposits at one month's rent by local ordinance, but there is no statewide maximum.
Correct: D An attorney-closing state
Vermont is an attorney-closing state in practice: only a licensed attorney or a Vermont-licensed title insurance producer may act as escrow agent and issue title insurance, and Vermont requires a title insurance producer to be an attorney (though an out-of-state attorney may qualify).
Correct: B 4 seats (3 brokers + 1 salesperson)
Four of the 7 seats are reserved for licensees: 3 licensed real estate brokers (broker as their vocation for at least 4 years) and 1 licensed salesperson (26 V.S.A. § 2251). The attorney seat is a lawyer, not necessarily a licensee, and the remaining 2 seats are public members.
Correct: C No, estate administration is exempt
Attorneys acting in connection with estate, trust, or bankruptcy matters are exempt from Vermont real estate licensing. This exemption recognizes the attorney's existing professional regulation.
Correct: C No, dual agency is prohibited in Vermont regardless of consent
Commission Rules 4.3(d)(1) and 4.4(e)(1) flatly forbid a Vermont brokerage firm and its licensees from practicing dual or limited agency — acting as agent for both a buyer and a seller in the same transaction. Consent does not cure it. Designated agency (different designated agents for each client) is Vermont's alternative. Separately, 26 V.S.A. § 2296(5) makes failing to disclose an existing agency relationship to a buyer unprofessional conduct.
Correct: B Disclose before sharing confidential info
At first contact with a member of the public who expresses interest in buying or selling, the licensee must disclose orally or in writing that there is no confidentiality between them until and unless a brokerage service agreement is signed (Rule 4.6(a)). Letting a buyer volunteer sensitive financial details before that disclosure violates the rule.
Correct: B No, only brokers may hold trust accounts
Trust accounts belong to the brokerage firm, not to individual licensees. Rule 4.7(a)-(b) requires every brokerage firm to maintain the pooled interest-bearing trust account, and any affiliated licensee must use the firm's account; responsibility for the account rests with the principal broker or broker in charge (Rule 4.7(h)).
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About the exam
Vermont handles its state-law requirement unlike anywhere else: a 50-question open-book jurisprudence exam filed with your application, on top of the proctored national test. The Vermont Office of Professional Regulation and its Real Estate Commission license salespersons here, so Vermont-specific law carries as much weight as the national material.
Vermont runs on its own rules, including the mandatory consumer disclosure a licensee must provide before listing or showing, designated versus non-designated agency firm duties, dual agency that Vermont prohibits outright, the Land Gains Tax that only reaches land the seller subdivided, Act 250 land-use permits, and the on-premises sign limits under Title 10. The Vermont Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act also protects more classes than federal law, down to receipt of public assistance. 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 Vermont-specific practice questions.
FAQ
The national portion of the Vermont Real Estate Salesperson Examination has 100 scored multiple-choice questions, administered by PSI at a testing center. PSI also mixes in a few unscored pretest questions that look identical to the scored ones, and the time spent on those does not count against you. On top of that, Vermont requires a separate 50-question state jurisprudence exam that you complete open-book and upload with your online application.
You need a scaled score of 75 percent on the national portion. The state jurisprudence exam is scored out of 100 points, with 50 questions worth two points each, and you need 75 points to pass. If you fail the state exam you redo it, so it pays to know Vermont law cold before you submit your application.
The PSI examination fee is $110 per attempt, paid to PSI when you schedule the national portion. The state jurisprudence exam carries no separate exam fee because you complete it as part of your online application to the Office of Professional Regulation.
PSI allows two and a half hours, which is 150 minutes, for the 100-question national portion at the testing center. The 50-question state jurisprudence exam is open-book and done on your own time before you submit your application, so there is no proctored clock on that part. PSI runs Vermont test sites in Burlington and South Burlington, with additional centers across the border in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
The Vermont Real Estate Salesperson Examination is administered by PSI for the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation and its Real Estate Commission. You register and schedule your exam date through PSI.
The national portion is the same caliber of content you would find on any PSI real estate exam, and plenty of first-time candidates underestimate it. The Vermont state jurisprudence exam is open-book, but it draws straight from the Real Estate Commission statutes and rules, so vague familiarity will not get you to 75 points. Most people who struggle spent their study time on national principles and skimped on Vermont's agency, disclosure, escrow, and advertising rules. Honest practice on a Vermont-specific practice test is the difference between passing on the first try and retaking the $110 national exam.
The 100-question national portion covers agency relationships and contracts, real property ownership and interests, finance, property valuation, marketing and settlement, property management, and real estate math, in proportions set by PSI's content outline. The Vermont state jurisprudence exam covers the Real Estate Commission statutes and administrative rules, plus Vermont-specific topics like the mandatory consumer disclosure, designated and non-designated agency, trust account and escrow handling, advertising and on-premises sign rules, the Land Gains Tax, and the Vermont Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act.
After you finish your pre-license coursework, the highest-leverage thing you can do is grind through practice questions with honest feedback on every miss. Generic real estate practice tests will help with national principles, but they will not catch you on Vermont's agency rules, disclosure requirements, or the jurisprudence material the state exam pulls from. The RealReady app gives you the full Vermont question bank plus the national bank, with progress tracking and a missed-question mode so you can drill what you are weak on. Most users study 30 to 60 minutes a day for two to four weeks before sitting the exam.
The 20 Vermont practice questions on this page are free, no account or signup needed. Unlocking the rest of the Vermont 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 Vermont question bank built for the Vermont real estate exam, covering the national principles every candidate sees plus the Vermont law that trips people up, like the mandatory consumer disclosure, the Vermont Land Gains Tax, and Act 250 land-use permits.
No. RealReady is exam practice, not a pre-license course, so it doesn't count toward Vermont'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.
