The Washington real estate brokers exam is made up of 140 multiple choice questions. There are two sections which are mixed in with one another, the first part covers national real estate topics and laws, the second Washington state specific laws.
Question breakdown is:
35 questions on the state portion (30 scored)
105 questions on the national portion (100 scored)
You will notice we mentioned that not all of the questions in each section count toward your score. That's because the testing company is always trying out new questions and by giving them to real applicants they can determine their quality before mixing them into the scored portion for future brokers.
In order to pass the exam you must receive a final scaled score of 70% or better. It's called a scaled score because each question isn't worth a straight 1 point. Certain questions that are easy may end up being worth around 0.8 while other more difficult questions may be valued at 1.2. It's a way to accurately value questions based on difficulty and necessity of knowing the particular subject matter .