Now The Waiting Begins
Today I drove to downtown LA to take the California Real Estate salesperson licensing exam.
After passing my online training course, and thereby qualifying to register for the licensing exam, I've been studying using some practice exams over the past 2 weeks, and went into the test fairly well prepared - at least as well prepared as the practice tests would allow. The 13 practice exams contained 160 questions each, so at least I had a good shot at retaining the 2080 questions and answers based on the quizzes.
The test was to start at 1pm, but I arrived at 12:30. Driving from Orange County, I'm glad I didn't register for the 8am exam. No doubt traffic would have sucked, and I would have been late. As it was, driving in around noon, traffic was light.
The room of about 80 people were kept in line by the proctor (read: warden) as they sporadically entered the test room. For the 20 minutes it took to process everyone, check them in, lead them to their seat, and wait for the exam to start you could hear the proctor repeat her career-defining, well-rehearsed diatribe: "You need ONLY the BLUE paper - only the blue paper, your drivers license and a calculator. NO, the BLUE paper. Leave everything else at the table. Turn OFF your cell phones. Sir, I said the BLUE paper - not the yellow or white paper - JUST THE BLUE PAPER. Is that a purse? Did I say you could bring a purse? Is there printed material in there? Then put it on the table. Come back here - NOT the white paper; THE BLUE PAPER. THE BLUE PAPER. Not the yellow paper. Put that pen away." Shades of high school, if I can remember that far back. Obviously, she was used to having to deal with some pretty stupid people in the past.
We were given 3 1/2 hours to take the exam, which consisted of 150 multiple choice questions with answers carefully plotted on Scantron forms using No. 2 pencils. I believe the study material I had been using did its job quite well - seeing that I completed the exam in 1 1/2 hours and felt confident that I didn't miss more than a few. Most of the questions were clones of the ones on the practice exams, so it relieved some of the anxiety. And since you only need 70% correct to pass the exam, I am not expecting any problems.
I will be notified in the next 3-5 days from Sacramento.
After passing my online training course, and thereby qualifying to register for the licensing exam, I've been studying using some practice exams over the past 2 weeks, and went into the test fairly well prepared - at least as well prepared as the practice tests would allow. The 13 practice exams contained 160 questions each, so at least I had a good shot at retaining the 2080 questions and answers based on the quizzes.
The test was to start at 1pm, but I arrived at 12:30. Driving from Orange County, I'm glad I didn't register for the 8am exam. No doubt traffic would have sucked, and I would have been late. As it was, driving in around noon, traffic was light.
The room of about 80 people were kept in line by the proctor (read: warden) as they sporadically entered the test room. For the 20 minutes it took to process everyone, check them in, lead them to their seat, and wait for the exam to start you could hear the proctor repeat her career-defining, well-rehearsed diatribe: "You need ONLY the BLUE paper - only the blue paper, your drivers license and a calculator. NO, the BLUE paper. Leave everything else at the table. Turn OFF your cell phones. Sir, I said the BLUE paper - not the yellow or white paper - JUST THE BLUE PAPER. Is that a purse? Did I say you could bring a purse? Is there printed material in there? Then put it on the table. Come back here - NOT the white paper; THE BLUE PAPER. THE BLUE PAPER. Not the yellow paper. Put that pen away." Shades of high school, if I can remember that far back. Obviously, she was used to having to deal with some pretty stupid people in the past.
We were given 3 1/2 hours to take the exam, which consisted of 150 multiple choice questions with answers carefully plotted on Scantron forms using No. 2 pencils. I believe the study material I had been using did its job quite well - seeing that I completed the exam in 1 1/2 hours and felt confident that I didn't miss more than a few. Most of the questions were clones of the ones on the practice exams, so it relieved some of the anxiety. And since you only need 70% correct to pass the exam, I am not expecting any problems.
I will be notified in the next 3-5 days from Sacramento.
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