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Nova Scotia Real Estate Salesperson study plan

Nova Scotia Real Estate Salesperson · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Real Estate Trading Act and Regulations

  • Map the structure of the Real Estate Trading Act into a one-page outline covering licensing, trading, and disciplinary parts

  • Define each key statutory term in Domain 1 in your own words without copying the Act's phrasing

  • Explain the licensing pathways and eligibility conditions for salespersons and associate brokers aloud in under five minutes

  • List the categories of conduct that trigger suspension, revocation, or penalty under the Act

Your checkpoint

A one-page Act structure map plus a 20-term personal glossary written in your own words

Week 2

Real Estate Trading Act and Regulations

  • Trace the complaint-to-hearing disciplinary process step by step and annotate each stage

  • Compare the roles of the regulator, the hearing body, and the appeals route in a short written summary

  • Solve 15 self-written scenario questions on trust accounting and record-keeping duties

  • Identify the statutory rules on trust money handling and write a checklist a salesperson could follow

Your checkpoint

A labelled disciplinary-process flowchart and a trust-money compliance checklist, each with a 100-word self-explanation

Week 3

Commission By-law, Policies and Advertising Requirements

  • Summarize the Commission By-law's core provisions into a structured outline

  • Distinguish permitted from prohibited advertising content and label ten sample ad claims as compliant or not

  • Draft three compliant property advertisements that include every required disclosure element

  • Explain continuing education and licensing-renewal obligations from memory

Your checkpoint

A portfolio of three original compliant ads, each annotated to show which by-law requirement it satisfies

Week 4

Real Estate Trading Act and Regulations & Commission By-law, Policies and Advertising Requirements

  • Write 30 original practice questions spanning Domains 1 and 2 and answer them closed-book

  • Review every missed question and record the underlying rule in a correction log

  • Re-explain the three weakest Domain 1 rules without referring to notes

  • Audit your ad portfolio against the advertising rules and revise any weak spots

Your checkpoint

A scored 30-question self-test with a correction log showing a rule note for each error

Week 5

Agency Relationships and Disclosure

  • Define each agency relationship type and the duties each creates for the brokerage and the salesperson

  • Explain the timing and content of agency disclosure requirements in plain language

  • Work through eight dual-agency and conflict-of-interest scenarios and justify each resolution

  • Describe how agency status changes across the transaction timeline from first contact to closing

Your checkpoint

A two-page agency disclosure guide plus written resolutions for eight conflict scenarios

Week 6

Conduct, Trade Practices and Professional Standards

  • Outline the professional standards expected of a salesperson, including honesty, competence, and confidentiality duties

  • Classify ten original conduct scenarios as compliant or non-compliant with a stated reason for each

  • Explain the trade-practice rules on representations, misrepresentation, and handling of deposits

  • Draft a client communication script that satisfies disclosure and conduct obligations

Your checkpoint

A scenario classification table of ten cases with a one-paragraph rationale for each ruling

Week 7

Agency Relationships and Disclosure & Conduct, Trade Practices and Professional Standards

  • Write 40 original mixed questions across Domains 3 and 4 and complete them timed

  • Analyze each error to identify whether the gap was a rule, a definition, or a judgment call

  • Role-play three disclosure conversations aloud and self-score clarity and completeness

  • Consolidate overlapping duties between agency and conduct rules into a single comparison chart

Your checkpoint

A timed 40-question mixed test with an error-analysis table and a completed agency-versus-conduct comparison chart

Week 8

Real Estate Trading Act and Regulations & Commission By-law, Policies and Advertising Requirements & Agency Relationships and Disclosure & Conduct, Trade Practices and Professional Standards

  • Complete two full-length timed mock exams weighted 25 percent per domain and score both

  • Re-drill every missed item from Weeks 4 and 7 until each is answered correctly twice

  • Recite the key rule for each domain from memory in a five-minute verbal summary

  • Build a final one-page cue sheet of the rules you most often missed

Your checkpoint

Two scored full mock exams with a final one-page cue sheet of recurring weak rules

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 80 percent on a closed-book 20-question Domain 1 self-test and explain the disciplinary process aloud without notes

Week 4: Score at least 75 percent on the 30-question Domains 1 and 2 test, with a correction-log entry for every missed question

Week 6: Correctly classify at least 8 of 10 conduct scenarios and state the governing rule for each

Week 7: Score at least 80 percent on the timed 40-question Domains 3 and 4 test and complete the error-analysis table

Week 8: Score at least 85 percent on both full-length mock exams and deliver a five-minute verbal summary covering all four domains