In Real Estate School in Hendersonville, Stay In Touch With Your Classmates

     The pass rate for the North Carolina real estate exam, last month, was 57%.  The exam is no joke.  It costs $164 to take it again.  We can all agree that one sitting is enough.  Read this article .  Your chances of passing on the first attempt will be better. 

     If you are soon to be or currently enrolled in real estate school anywhere in North Carolina, get in touch and stay in touch with your classmates.  Pass around a paper and get everyone's contact information.  Make 40 copies and share it with the class.  Why do I want you to do that?    The class that studies together, passes together.   Making passing the North Carolina real estate exam a team sport. 

     Form study groups.  Study together one night or two nights per week.  At Keller Williams Realty in Hendersonville, where I work, we often have a volunteer instructor get together unofficially with people that are soon to take the test.  Don't wait for someone else to organize this.  Organize it. 

     Often, one of my students will form a Facebook page just for this class.  At First Real Estate School, we have a Facebook page.  We encourage the students to use our page to communicate and get together to study. Let your classmates know that you want to get together outside of class and study together. 

     Ask your classmates to post links to study aids that find online.  Some are good.  Some are bad.  Some are free.  Some cost money.  When you find a good one, share it with your classmates.  Invite a few fellow students that are having math problems over and watch my free You Tube videos.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdJ-2iHepM&t=80s    There is no math on the North Carolina real estate exam that I do not have posted on You Tube. 

     If you are soon taking the North Carolina real estate exam, take my practice test first.  www.ncreexam.com   After you take the test, I go over the answers with an explanation on video.  Ask your classmates to post links to worthwhile study aids or warn us about bad study aids that they find online. 

     Make passing the school test and the North Carolina real estate exam a group effort.  After class in over, stay in touch with your classmates.  Post on Facebook and Twitter that you passed.  Tell us where you went to work.  Send a group email to let us know that you passed the state exam.  Congratulate your peers when they pass.  Ask your newly licensed classmates if they encountered any strange material that the instructor did not cover like who is the new leader of the CFPB.  They would not ask that on the state exam.  Would they?  No they would not but they may ask what is the CFPB.  If you know the answer, please leave it in the comments. 

Stay in touch with your real estate school classmates

     Let your peers know where you chose to work and why.

     At First Real Estate School www.firstrealestateschool.com in Hendersonville, I make an effort to let my students know that they would be welcome to join me at Keller Williams Mountain Partners in Hendersonville.  Many of them do.  An equal amount find that it is not a good fit for them.  That is OK. 

Encourage your classmates.  Contact them and offer them help.  Contact your classmates if you need help.  This is no time to be proud or shy.  Nine out of ten of your classmates will
be happy to help you,  We learn best what we teach.  When you help someone understand mortgage amortization , you usually end up understanding it better yourself. 

     You are familiar with car pooling.  That is when four of us get in our neighborhood in  one car and go to school.  It saves everyone a little bit of money.  It is usually more fun than riding in alone.  You can "car pool"  expensive study aids.  One of my students bought a one hundred dollar course state exam review class on line.  He invited three of his classmates over to watch it on his computer .  Each of the three gave him $25.  That is a WIN WIN .  You could do the same thing with a CD audio program.  We sell a CD audio program at First Real Estate School to help the students pass the first time.  There are nine Cds.  Often two students will share the expense.  One students takes half of the  CDs and the other students takes half.  They trade throughout class.  Car pooling works. 

     Forty students could get together and make 400 flashcards.  One student makes ten flashcards on deeds.  One student makes ten flashcards on mortgages.  One student makes ten flashcards on agency.  Very quickly , we have 40 sets of flashcards.  Every one passes. 

     Get together with your classmates.  Make passing a group activity.  Do not wait for a leader to show up.  Be a leader.