RECA Exam study plan

Map the governing legislation and regulation structure (act, rules, bylaws, ministerial regulation) into a hierarchy diagram you draw from memory

Define each licence class, its permitted activities, and the conduct and reporting duties attached to it

Outline record-keeping, advertising, and disclosure requirements well enough to state them without notes

Identify the bodies that regulate, govern, and discipline the industry and describe how their roles differ

Distinguish agency relationships, fiduciary duties, and the point at which each duty arises and ends

Compare the permitted forms of brokerage relationship and the written disclosure each requires

Apply disclosure and conflict-of-interest rules to ten short fact patterns and justify each outcome

Explain in writing how representation changes when a client wants to buy and sell through different brokerages

Deconstruct the standard purchase contract into its clauses and state the legal effect of each

Draft a clause-by-clause checklist covering conditions, deposits, representations, and completion timelines

Differentiate listing and buyer-service agreement obligations from the obligations created by the purchase contract itself

Solve 20 contract-law scenarios covering breach, remedies, and deposit disposition

Trace how title is held, transferred, registered, and encumbered, and name the interests that bind a buyer

Summarize land-use planning, zoning, subdivision, and environmental constraints that affect a transaction

Compare ownership structures and condominium-specific rights, documents, and disclosure duties

Sit a timed half-length diagnostic covering weeks 1 through 4 under exam conditions

Compute mortgage payments, amortization effects, qualifying ratios, and loan-to-value figures without a formula sheet

Calculate closing costs, adjustments, deposits, and commission splits to the cent

Explain the main financing structures, default remedies, and mortgage enforcement steps in your own words

Build a personal error log that classifies every calculation mistake by cause

Apply the standard approaches to value and select the appropriate one for a given property type

Measure a dwelling using the prescribed method and record the result defensibly

Audit a sample advertisement against advertising and marketing compliance rules and list every defect

Evaluate construction, building-science, and environmental hazards for their transaction-level disclosure consequences

Categorize trust-account and financial-record obligations and apply them to short scenarios

Rank the highest-risk situations in a transaction and state the control that prevents each

Apply the disciplinary and complaints process to fact patterns and predict the outcome

Complete a full-length timed mock examination simulating real testing conditions

Re-drill the two weakest categories from the mock-exam error log until accuracy exceeds 85%

Recite from memory the licensing, disclosure, and record-keeping rules most often tested in scenario form

Rehearse exam-day logistics, time allocation per question, and flag-and-return strategy

Sit a second full-length mock and compare category scores against the first