Arkansas Real Estate License Requirements

Get your Arkansas real estate license with our comprehensive preparation guide. Understand licensing requirements, exam details, and necessary documentation for both sales associates and brokers.

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What you need to get your Arkansas real estate license

Salesperson:

Be at least 18 years old.
Complete 60 hours of real estate pre-licensing education, out of which 30 hours must be dedicated to the basic principles of real estate.
Provide application forms and fees needed for approval to take up the licensing examination.
Complete both an Arkansas criminal background check and an FBI background check.
Complete and pass the real estate examination.
Provide the necessary forms and fees to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission no later than 90 days after you pass the exam.

Broker:

Be at least 18 years old.
Complete 60 hours of real estate education within the 36 months before the application date, including 45 hours in the Commission-developed Broker Pre-License Course.
Have held an active real estate salesperson or broker license for at least 24 of the last 48 months immediately before the application date.
Provide application forms and fees needed for approval to take up the licensing examination.
Go through an Arkansas criminal background check and an FBI criminal background check once you submit the form.
Complete and pass the real estate examination.
Provide the necessary forms and fees to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission no later than 90 days after you pass the exam.

What is the passing score for the Arkansas real estate license exam?

Each licensing exam has multiple versions or forms. While all forms are created from the same content outlines, the difficulty level may vary slightly due to different questions on each form. To ensure fairness and that no candidate is advantaged or disadvantaged by the form they receive, a statistical process called equating is used to adjust for these differences in difficulty.

The Arkansas Real Estate Commission determined the passing score for each examination after conducting an exhaustive study. First, raw scores are converted to scaled scores ranging from 0 to 100. Candidates who do not pass receive only numeric scores to protect against misuse of score information. The scaled score you see does not directly indicate the number or percentage of questions answered correctly. For both the real estate salesperson and broker exams, a score of 70 is marked as the passing grade, and anything below it indicates how close the candidate came to the passing mark rather than an exact number or percentage of correct responses.

What is the time limit for the Arkansas real estate exam?

For both the salesperson and broker exam, you have 4 hours.

What to bring for the Arkansas real estate license exam?

Applicants must provide two forms of valid signature identification matching names precisely as registered. The primary ID shall be a government-issued, valid photo and signature-bearing ID card(Government-issued Driver’s License, U.S. Dept. of State Driver’s License, U.S. Learner’s Permit, National/State/Country ID card, Passport, Passport Card, Military ID, Military ID for spouses and dependents, Alien Registration Card); the secondary one may only have a valid signature(U.S. Social Security card, Debit (ATM) or Credit card, any form of ID on the Primary ID list). All identifications must be in English.