What score do you need to pass the Illinois real estate exam?

Short answer: Pass national with 70% raw and Illinois with 75%. PSI scores each portion independently. In the current summary table, those standards correspond to 70 of 100 national points and 30 of 40 Illinois points.

These examples apply the published standards directly. They do not predict how PSI will display a particular score report. Follow the pass or fail result and reapplication instructions on your own report.

Older material may describe a national broker scaled score of 75. The current PSI booklet reports the national standard as 70% raw and explains that 70% is equivalent to the scaled score of 75 previously reported and required to pass.

PSI also says the passing standard remained identical when reporting changed from scaled scores to raw scores. In other words, the number shown changed, but PSI did not lower the level required to pass.

On the published scored totals, 70 of 100 national points and 30 of 40 Illinois points meet the standards. That arithmetic leaves up to 30 national points or 10 Illinois points below a perfect score.

Use points, not the number of screens you remember seeing. PSI may include 5 to 10 unidentified experimental questions. Those items are not scored but count against time, so the total number of questions presented may exceed 140.

You cannot tell which items are experimental. Answer every question as though it counts and pace for the appointment timer shown by PSI.

PSI displays the score on screen at the end of the examination and emails a score report. Reports are also available to print in the Manage area of the PSI account.

If you fail, the emailed report includes diagnostic information showing strengths and weaknesses by examination type. It also provides reapplication instructions. Save the report and turn the diagnostic categories into the next study plan.

The failed-exam recovery guide shows how to convert those categories into focused practice.

PSI requires you to repeat only the failed portion. Passing national lets you focus the next registration on Illinois, and passing Illinois lets you focus on national.

Standard broker candidates may make up to four attempts during the two-year eligibility period. After a fourth failed attempt, the standard broker route requires repeating the 75-hour education and the entire examination. The Illinois exam retake-rules guide explains standard, endorsement, and education-exempt cases.

The official cutoffs are pass or fail standards, not ideal practice targets. A score that clears a cutoff once can reflect familiar questions, an easy set, untimed work, or a temporary strength.

Use stronger evidence:

• Several new, timed, closed-note sets.
• National and Illinois tracked independently.
• A repeatable cushion above each official cutoff.
• Stable results in high-weight and previously weak topics.
• Enough time to read the final questions carefully.
• Explanations for why plausible wrong choices fail.

The free Illinois broker exam readiness check combines these signals without pretending to predict a pass.

Passing both portions completes the examination requirement, but it does not issue the Illinois broker license automatically. Follow the score-report instructions, satisfy the remaining licensing requirements, and apply through IDFPR within one year of passing.

Missing that one-year application window causes the examination accreditation to be lost and requires the appropriate examination again.

• PSI Illinois Candidate Information Booklet dated June 24, 2026

PSI controls the passing standards, score reporting, experimental questions, and reapplication instructions. Your score report controls your individual result.