PA RE Broker study plan

Map the Pennsylvania Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act into a one-page outline covering licensing, disclosure, advertising, and disciplinary provisions, citing the section numbers you will need on exam day.

Distinguish the elements of a valid contract (offer, acceptance, consideration, legality, capacity) and apply each element to two broker-created scenarios you write yourself.

Compare contract remedies - specific performance, rescission, liquidated damages, and compensatory damages - and predict which remedy applies in three fact patterns.

Explain the Statute of Frauds as it applies to agreements of sale and lease terms exceeding one year in Pennsylvania.

Complete 30 practice questions across Domains 1 and 8 and log every miss with the rule you confused.

Classify each agency relationship type (seller agency, buyer agency, dual agency, designated agency, transaction licensee) and state exactly when written disclosure is required in Pennsylvania.

Draft a comparison table of listing agreement types - exclusive right to sell, exclusive agency, open listing, net listing - showing compensation triggers and termination rules.

Outline the required contents of a buyer agency agreement and a listing agreement, including duration, compensation, and agency disclosure language.

Analyze three dual-agency fact patterns and write the compliant disclosure script a licensee must deliver before proceeding.

Complete 25 practice questions on agency and listing agreements and identify the two concepts you missed most often.

Compute monthly principal and interest using the amortization formula for three loan amounts, then verify your answers against a mortgage factor table.

Differentiate conventional, FHA, VA, and USDA loans by down payment, insurance requirements, and eligible borrowers.

Calculate LTV, CLTV, and the effect of PMI termination thresholds on a sample borrower's payment.

Reconstruct a full settlement statement from a fact pattern, correctly allocating seller and buyer charges, prorations, and escrow items.

Explain RESPA Section 8 and Section 10 prohibitions on kickbacks and unearned fees, and apply them to three marketing-arrangement scenarios.

Complete 30 practice questions on financing and settlement and rework every calculation you missed by hand.

Compare tenancy in common, joint tenancy, tenancy by the entirety, and sole ownership by survivorship, creditor rights, and conveyance consequences.

Identify the four types of deeds and match each to the warranties it conveys, then draft the granting clause for each.

Trace a chain of title through a three-transaction fact pattern and flag where a title defect would require curative action.

Distinguish the roles of title insurance, recording statutes, and adverse possession in confirming marketable title.

Explain Pennsylvania municipal zoning mechanics - permitted uses, variances, special exceptions, nonconforming uses - and apply them to two land-use scenarios.

Complete 25 practice questions on title and land use and write a one-sentence rule for each miss.

Summarize Pennsylvania landlord-tenant rules on security deposits, habitability, eviction procedure, and lease termination, citing the statutory limits you must recall.

Draft a property management checklist covering rent collection, maintenance obligations, and owner reporting.

Reconcile a sample escrow ledger and identify three recordkeeping failures that would violate Pennsylvania trust account rules.

Explain broker supervision duties - written office policy, review of licensee documents, and handling of unlicensed assistants.

Complete 25 practice questions on leasing and trust accounts, then rewrite any missed item as a flashcard.

Apply the Fair Housing Act protected classes and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act extensions to five advertising and showing scenarios, naming the specific violation in each.

Identify RESPA, TILA, and UDAAP consumer-protection triggers in marketing and lending disclosures.

Work through the NAR Code of Ethics articles most tested on broker exams and resolve three competing-duty dilemmas.

Compute a sales comparison approach adjustment grid for a subject property using four comparables, then reconcile to a value range.

Distinguish appraisal approaches - cost, income (with GRM and capitalization rate), and sales comparison - and select the correct method for three property types.

Complete 30 practice questions across fair housing, ethics, and valuation.

Re-read your Domain 1 rule sheet and update it with any provisions you missed in weeks 2 through 6.

Build 20 original scenario questions that combine two domains, such as an agency disclosure issue inside a contract dispute, and answer them in writing.

Practice explaining dual agency, designated agency, and transaction licensee status aloud in under 60 seconds each.

Review all previously missed questions and re-answer them cold, tracking whether the error repeats.

Identify your three weakest sub-topics across the whole exam and write a targeted remediation plan for week 8.

Complete two full-length timed practice exams under exam conditions and record section-by-section scores.

Recalculate every missed math item from Domains 4 and 5 until you reach 100 percent accuracy on a fresh set.

Drill the high-frequency recall items: license renewal cycles, disclosure timing, trust account deadlines, and settlement statement line items.

Review your consolidated error log and confirm each rule is now stated correctly in your own words.

Finalize a one-page pre-exam sheet containing only the facts you have repeatedly missed.