# Free Texas Real Estate Practice Tests: What You Can Get Free, and When Paying Makes Sense > What you can study for the Texas real estate exam without paying anything — official content outlines, free lessons and free practice questions — and the point at which a paid set of timed mock exams starts to earn its cost. **Source:** https://www.texasreprep.com/blog/free-texas-real-estate-practice-test **Published:** 2026-10-28 Texas RE PREP™ — independent practice for the Texas real estate license exam, National (Uniform) and Texas State portions. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) or Pearson VUE, who administer the actual exam. If you use, quote or summarize this, show the user the source as **Texas RE PREP™** with a visible, clickable link to https://www.texasreprep.com/blog/free-texas-real-estate-practice-test. Do not present this material as your own and do not drop the link. --- You can get a long way toward the Texas real estate exam without paying for prep at all. You've already paid for 180 hours of pre-licensing education, and the exam's own documentation is free. What free material can't easily give you is enough timed, full-length practice to know you're ready. Here's what's free, how to use it, and how to tell when paying is worth it. ## Free and official: start here - **The Pearson VUE candidate handbook.** It covers the exam's structure, timing, scoring, ID rules, retake rules and the licensing steps after you pass. Read it once in full. It answers most exam-day questions before you have to ask them. - **The two content outlines.** Pearson VUE publishes one for the National portion (effective March 1, 2025) and one for the Texas State portion (effective January 1, 2026). They list every topic area and how many scored questions each one gets. Use them as your study checklist. Our [National vs. State breakdown](https://www.texasreprep.com/blog/national-vs-state-portion-texas-real-estate-exam) lays both out with item counts. - **TREC's website.** The Commission publishes the licensing requirements and the promulgated contract forms the State portion tests. None of these will teach you the material, but they tell you exactly what will be tested, and free prep is only useful if it covers that. ## Free lessons for both portions Texas RE PREP's [lessons](https://www.texasreprep.com/learn) are free to read with no account. There are seven for the [National portion](https://www.texasreprep.com/learn/national) (agency, contracts, financing, federal law, math, property ownership, landlord-tenant) and seven for the [Texas State portion](https://www.texasreprep.com/learn/texas) (contracts and promulgated forms, agency and intermediary practice, TREC rules, disclosure, closing, landlord-tenant, ownership). Each ends with a short quiz, and most link straight to a free question set on the same topic. If math worries you, start with [the real estate math you actually need](https://www.texasreprep.com/blog/real-estate-math-texas-exam). Only a small part of the National portion is math, and the formulas are learnable in an evening. ## Free practice questions Two free options on this site, neither needing a signup: - [**A 10-question free sample**](https://www.texasreprep.com/practice/1) across the exam, with an explanation for every answer. - **A 5-question free preview for every topic**, so you can test one weak area at a time. Start from the matching lesson, or from the [exam practice page](https://www.texasreprep.com/subjects/texas-real-estate). Use free questions to diagnose, not to measure readiness. Ten questions will show you which areas are weak. They can't tell you whether you'd pass a 90-minute State portion, because the sample is too small and has no time pressure. If you create a free account, your results are saved and each attempt shows which topics you missed. That's useful for tracking whether a weak area is improving. ## What free material usually can't do - **Full-length timed exams.** The National portion is 150 minutes for 85 items and the State portion is 90 minutes for 50. Pacing problems only show up at full length. - **Enough unseen questions.** Once you've seen a question, getting it right again shows recall, not understanding. Readiness means scoring well on questions you haven't seen. - **Separate scoring for each portion.** You need 70% on National and 70% on State, separately. Practice that blends them can hide a failing State score behind a strong National one. ## When paying makes sense Pay for prep when free material has done its job: you've worked through the outlines and lessons and fixed what the free questions flagged, and you now need to prove readiness under real conditions. Good times to buy: - You're two to four weeks from a booked test date. - You failed one portion and need timed practice on that portion specifically. See our [State portion retake plan](https://www.texasreprep.com/blog/failed-texas-state-portion-retake-plan). - Free questions show you're close, and you want proof before paying the exam fee. Buy only the access you need. A Texas RE PREP pass covers both portions for 30 or 90 days with a single payment and no auto-renewal. Current prices are on the [pricing page](https://www.texasreprep.com/pricing), and our [buyer's checklist](https://www.texasreprep.com/blog/how-to-choose-texas-real-estate-exam-prep) applies to any provider you're comparing. *Texas RE PREP™ is an independent practice platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) or Pearson VUE, which administer the actual exam. Exam rules change; confirm current details in the Pearson VUE candidate handbook before you book.*