Did a full timed practice test today and ran out of time with 5 questions left. Definitely have a time management problem.
The REM - Real Estate Management exam has 99 questions and the time limit is 95 minutes by my understanding. That works out to roughly 63 seconds per question — which should be doable except I keep stopping on "REM exam" type questions.
My bad habit: I over-analyze questions I'm unsure about rather than making a best guess and moving on.
Any strategies that worked for you? Specifically:
- Do you go through once and skip hard questions to come back to?
- How many questions on "REM" should I expect — is it worth the time investment?
- Is the real exam usually easier to pace than practice tests, or harder?
I'm good enough on the content, I think — it's purely pacing that's failing me.
Worth mentioning: the free rem basics covers exactly the areas people tend to struggle with most.
Passed REM 6 months ago. Happy to share what I remember.
On the "REM exam" stuff specifically — I found the practice tests here were actually harder than the real exam on those questions. Which was great because going in I felt more prepared than I needed to be.
The time pressure is real though. I came in with maybe 8 minutes to spare and that was after skipping the ones I wasn't sure about and coming back.
Don't try to cram the night before. Seriously. Last-minute stress makes you second-guess things you actually know.
Coming back to this thread — just passed my REM yesterday. Everything about the rem practice test section is accurate. For anyone still studying, the free rem marketing and leasing was the closest thing to the real exam I found.
Coming back to this thread — just passed my REM yesterday. Everything about the rem practice test section is accurate. For anyone still studying, the free rem marketing and leasing was the closest thing to the real exam I found.
Failed first attempt, came back to this thread. The consensus on rem practice test being the make-or-break area is right. Focusing almost exclusively on applied questions this time around.
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