Enrollment open: Illinois has no salesperson license — the broker exam is the entry door, and it has two separately scored portions to clear. The Illinois program includes 19,996 original practice questions mapped to PSI’s current Illinois content outlines. Enroll today and start with free sample questions.
Illinois licenses new agents as brokers, and the Illinois broker exam — given by PSI for the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Division of Real Estate — tests you twice: a 100-question national portion you must pass at 70%, and a 40-question Illinois portion you must pass at 75%, scored separately. PassProfessor’s Illinois program gives you 19,996 original practice questions built portion by portion on PSI’s current outlines — 15,704 on the national topics and 4,292 on Illinois law — with fresh blueprint-weighted practice exams, topic drills, and per-question analytics that show you which outline areas are costing you points. Free sample questions are available now.
What’s included
A bank built for a two-portion exam. Most states test new agents once. Illinois tests you on general real estate principles and then again on Illinois law — the Real Estate License Act of 2000, designated agency, Illinois disclosure duties — and a strong national score cannot rescue a weak Illinois score, because the portions are scored separately. Our bank holds 19,996 questions split the way the exam is split: 15,704 across the eleven national outline areas and 4,292 across the four Illinois outline areas, so each portion can be drilled and measured on its own.
Practice exams drawn fresh, at the real blueprint. Every full practice exam is generated for that attempt — weighted to the exam’s 100-question national / 40-question Illinois structure and to the outline weights inside each portion (Contracts alone is 19% of the national portion; the License Act is 40% of the Illinois portion). Questions you have not seen come first, and you never sit the same practice exam twice.
Drills that match how the exam is built. Drill a single outline area — Illinois disclosures, real estate calculations, agency — or sit a full timed simulation. Because Illinois scores the portions separately, your results break down by portion and by outline area, so a weak Illinois-law block shows up in your practice data long before it shows up on a PSI score report.
Per-question analytics that keep the bank honest. Every question is monitored from real student responses. Items students find suspiciously easy or suspiciously hard are pulled for review, and anything found wrong is fixed or retired. Your topic breakdown uses the same data, so your study time goes where your misses actually are.
The real exam at a glance
Current as of October 2026, per the IDFPR Division of Real Estate and the PSI Illinois Candidate Information Booklet (copyright 2026, revised 6/24/2026). Full detail — eligibility, registration, retakes, test day — is in our Illinois real estate exam guide.
| National portion | Illinois state portion | |
|---|---|---|
| Scored questions | 100 | 40 |
| Time allowed | 150 minutes | 90 minutes |
| Passing standard | 70% | 75% |
| Scored | Separately — you must pass both portions | Separately — you must pass both portions |
| Illinois Real Estate Broker exam | |
|---|---|
| Administered by | PSI Services LLC, for the IDFPR Division of Real Estate |
| Exam fee | $58, paid to PSI when you schedule (not refundable or transferable) |
| Unscored experimental questions | 5 to 10 may be mixed in; they count against your time but not your score |
| Attempts | Up to 4 attempts within your 2-year eligibility period |
| Where you test | PSI test centers, or by remote online proctoring |
- There is no Illinois salesperson exam. Illinois eliminated the salesperson category; the entry-level license is the broker license, and the license above it — the one that can sponsor and supervise brokers — is the managing broker license. If a study product is still selling you “Illinois salesperson” prep, it is describing a license Illinois no longer issues.
- The passing scores are percentages, as PSI now publishes them. The booklet’s summary table lists 70% for the national portion and 75% for the Illinois portion, and notes that the 70% national standard is equivalent to the scaled score of 75 PSI previously reported — the standard itself did not change when the reporting changed.
- Both portions must pass. Passing one portion and failing the other means you retake only the portion you failed — but you are not licensed until both are passed.
- Before you can test, you complete the 75-hour broker pre-license education (60 hours of Broker Pre-License Topics plus 15 hours of Applied Real Estate Principles–Interactive) at a Department-approved school, and PSI confirms your eligibility from your course documentation. This program is exam preparation only — it is not pre-licensing education and provides no education credit.
- After you pass, you apply for your license through the IDFPR Online Services Portal within one year of passing, and a sponsoring broker must sponsor you before you may practice — a broker without a sponsor is inactive.
How the practice maps to the real exam
Every question in the Illinois bank is tagged to an area of PSI’s current Illinois content outlines — the same outlines the real exam is built from. Counts below are the bank itself, counted question by question from the delivered workbook.
| Official outline area (share of its portion on the real exam) | Practice questions |
|---|---|
| National portion — 100 scored questions | |
| I. Property Ownership (10%) | 1,667 |
| II. Land Use Controls and Regulations (5%) | 1,024 |
| III. Valuation and Market Analysis (8%) | 1,902 |
| IV. Financing (10%) | 2,320 |
| V. Contracts (19%) | 2,492 |
| VI. Agency (13%) | 1,171 |
| VII. Property Disclosures (7%) | 923 |
| VIII. Leasing and Property Management (3%) | 505 |
| IX. Transfer of Title (6%) | 752 |
| X. Practice of Real Estate (12%) | 551 |
| XI. Real Estate Calculations (7%) | 2,397 |
| National-topic subtotal | 15,704 |
| Illinois portion — 40 scored questions | |
| I. Licensing Requirements (10%) | 450 |
| II. Illinois Real Estate License Act (40%) | 1,936 |
| III. Additional Illinois Laws and Regulations Affecting Real Estate Practice (25%) | 1,176 |
| IV. Disclosures (25%) | 730 |
| Illinois-topic subtotal | 4,292 |
| Total | 19,996 |
A note on the counts, because honesty about a bank matters more than a tidy table: every one of the fifteen official outline areas is covered, and the smallest areas — Licensing Requirements and Leasing and Property Management — still hold hundreds of questions each. The bank’s distribution reflects the full range of the outlines rather than the exam’s exact weights; that is deliberate, because your practice exams are drawn at the real weights no matter how deep each area’s bench is. The Illinois portion is 40 of 140 scored questions on the real exam — 29% of your result — and its 4,292 questions here are written to Illinois law specifically: designated agency, written brokerage agreements, special accounts, the Residential Real Property Disclosure Act, radon and the Illinois Human Rights Act.
How to use it
- Start with free sample questions — a fixed set of Illinois questions drawn from both portions — enough to see how the program works and where you stand on each portion separately.
- Check your portions separately from day one. Illinois does not average your scores. Run an early national check and an early Illinois check, and treat whichever portion sits lower as your main study block until it moves.
- Drill by outline area. Work your weakest areas — Contracts and Agency carry nearly a third of the national portion between them; the License Act alone is 40% of the Illinois portion — until the misses stop repeating, then re-test the area.
- Sit full generated simulations against the clock. The real sitting is 150 minutes for the national portion and 90 minutes for the Illinois portion, with 5 to 10 unscored experimental questions mixed in somewhere. Practice the full pace, experimental questions and all.
- Book the real exam through PSI when your practice results sit comfortably above 70% on national simulations and above 75% on Illinois simulations — then apply to IDFPR within one year of passing and line up your sponsoring broker.
Pricing
The Illinois program is $49 for full access to all 19,996 questions.
The standing refund policy applies: if the program is not for you, our refund terms give you 14 days provided you have attempted less than 20% of the program (see the site Terms for the full policy).
Verified questions
Every question in this program is original — written for PassProfessor from the official exam blueprint, never copied from a test bank or another provider’s materials. Before enrollment opened, each answer key was independently verified: reviewers re-answered sampled questions blind, disagreements were settled against the primary sources, and every numeric answer was recomputed from first principles. Questions whose facts could not be confirmed were removed, and the bank passed a text-overlap screen. Practice exams draw a fresh, blueprint-weighted set from the full bank on every attempt, so no two practice exams are the same.
Frequently asked questions
How do I enroll in the Illinois program? Enrollment is open. Enroll on this page for $49 and you get immediate access to the full program — all 19,996 questions, the topic drills for both portions, and the generated practice exams — starting with free sample questions if you want to look around first.
Why is there no Illinois salesperson exam? Because Illinois no longer issues a salesperson license. The entry-level license in Illinois is the broker license: you complete 75 hours of pre-license education, pass the two-portion broker exam, and work under a sponsoring broker. The supervisory license above broker is the managing broker license. Products describing an Illinois “salesperson” exam are using another state’s vocabulary — or an Illinois vocabulary that ended when the salesperson category was eliminated.
How many questions are on the Illinois broker exam? 140 scored questions: 100 on the national portion (150 minutes) and 40 on the Illinois portion (90 minutes). PSI may also mix in 5 to 10 unscored experimental questions, which count against your time but not your score and cannot be identified while you test.
What score do I need to pass the Illinois broker exam? 70% on the national portion and 75% on the Illinois portion, and the portions are scored separately — you must reach both standards. PSI’s booklet notes that the 70% national standard is equivalent to the scaled score of 75 it previously reported; the passing standard did not change when PSI changed how it reports scores.
How much does the Illinois broker exam cost? The exam fee is $58, paid to PSI when you schedule. The fee is not refundable or transferable, and PSI forfeits the fee if you do not test within one year of paying it. Your pre-license education tuition and your IDFPR license application are separate costs, paid to your school and to the Department respectively.
What do I need before I can take the Illinois broker exam? You must be at least 18 years old, hold a high school diploma or GED, and complete 75 hours of broker pre-license education at a Department-approved school — 60 hours of Broker Pre-License Topics and 15 hours of Applied Real Estate Principles–Interactive. The education is valid for two years. PSI confirms your eligibility from your course documentation before you schedule.
What happens if I fail one portion of the Illinois exam? You retake only the portion you failed; a passed portion stands. Broker candidates get up to four attempts within the two-year eligibility period. If you fail a fourth time, PSI requires you to retake the 75-hour pre-license education and the entire examination before testing again — which is why portion-by-portion readiness checks matter.
Do I need a sponsoring broker in Illinois? Yes, to practice. After you pass and apply to IDFPR, a sponsoring broker — in practice, the managing broker of the brokerage you join — must sponsor you. A broker whose sponsorship ends, or who has no sponsor, is inactive and may not perform licensed activities until a new sponsorship is in place.
Is there a separate Illinois leasing agent exam? Yes. Illinois also licenses residential leasing agents, who may work in residential leasing only. That path requires a 15-hour leasing agent course and its own PSI examination. This PassProfessor program prepares you for the broker exam, not the leasing agent exam.
Can I take the Illinois broker exam online? Yes. PSI offers the examination at test centers and by remote online proctoring. The rules differ by format — for example, a physical calculator is allowed at a test center but not on a remote proctored exam, and no breaks are allowed during remote sessions — so read PSI’s current booklet for the format you choose before you book.
Are these the actual exam questions? No. Every PassProfessor question is written by us, from scratch, to PSI’s published Illinois content outlines and Illinois law. We never use real exam questions, recalled questions, or another provider’s bank — and using actual exam content would violate the candidate rules you agree to when you test.
Does this program count toward my 75 hours of pre-licensing education? No. PassProfessor is exam preparation only. It provides no pre-licensing education credit and is not a substitute for the 75-hour broker pre-license education (60 hours of topics plus 15 hours of applied principles) that Illinois requires from a Department-approved school before you can test.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation provider. This program is exam preparation only: it is not pre-licensing education, provides no education credit, and is not affiliated with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, the Division of Real Estate, PSI, or any state agency or exam vendor. It is not a substitute for the required 75-hour broker pre-licensing education. All practice questions are original, written to the published exam outlines; they are not actual exam questions.