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Illinois real estate exam question of the day
Try today's question without notes, then explain the fact that decided your answer. If you guessed or missed a condition, use the explanation to choose your next exercise. You can do that without turning one result into a verdict on your exam readiness.
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How this daily question works
This free page shows one original question each UTC day from a fixed set of 14. Choose an option, check the explanation and follow its primary reference. Record any uncertainty in your own notes, then try a different question on the concept later. The cycle repeats every 14 UTC days. It does not adapt to your answers or cover the full exam.
The June 24, 2026 PSI broker outline has 100 scored national questions and 40 scored Illinois questions. Use its topic allocations to plan broader study. This small daily cycle does not reproduce those allocations, predict PSI questions or establish readiness, and it does not replace approved pre-license education.
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One item appears each UTC day from a fixed 14-question cycle. This is a small learning set, not an adaptive or blueprint-weighted feed. Take any confidence or timing notes yourself.
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Turn today's answer into a useful review task
- Answer before reading feedback. If you used notes, record that rather than treating the result as unaided recall.
- Write down the rule and the deciding fact. If you guessed, keep that uncertainty beside the result.
- Read the explanation and check the cited primary reference. An exam outline identifies scope; a statute, rule or substantive primary guide supports the answer.
- Explain why the closest wrong option fails. Change one fact and ask whether the result would change.
- Choose a follow-up that addresses the actual mistake: a lesson, a worked calculation or a fresh scenario.
- Return after a delay and try unfamiliar questions. The exact interval is a study choice, not an official PSI requirement or a schedule validated for this page.
- Use broader national and Illinois sets to review coverage and pacing. Keep the portion counts and sample sizes visible.
| When | Useful task | What it does not show |
|---|---|---|
| Today | Answer, explain the rule and record uncertainty | A single right answer does not establish a whole topic |
| After a delay | Try a fresh scenario on the missed distinction | Remembering an option letter is not evidence of transfer |
| Later in the week | Review several national and Illinois topics, including calculations | This suggestion is not a blueprint-weighted feed or official timetable |
| Before relying on a score | Use a broader unfamiliar set and inspect each portion | A streak or small percentage does not predict passing |
The distinctions that matter
| Distinction | How it works | What to notice |
|---|---|---|
| UTC daily edition and your local date | The displayed edition changes at 00:00 UTC. Your local calendar date can differ. The same question returns every 14 UTC days. | Read the displayed UTC date rather than assuming local midnight. |
| Fixed rotation and adaptive practice | This widget follows a fixed 14-item order. It does not choose a question based on your misses, confidence or due dates. | Manage follow-up practice yourself. |
| Correct choice and an explanation you can use | A right answer may follow knowledge, elimination or a guess. Explaining the deciding fact gives you another way to examine what you understood. | Keep uncertainty beside the score rather than labelling one answer mastery. |
| Learning from a repeat and assessing unfamiliar material | A repeated item can help you revisit a rule, but recognition of its wording changes what the result means. | Use fresh questions before drawing broader conclusions. |
| Official scope and substantive authority | PSI lists examinable topics. A listed topic alone does not establish a particular Illinois deadline, federal duty or formula. | Read the specific cited provision and its conditions. |
| A manual review note and a saved feature | This page does not save confidence, a timer, a streak, a study history or a personalised review queue. | Record anything you want to retain before reloading or leaving. |
| Practice count and exam allocation | The 14 items include ten labelled with national topics and four labelled with Illinois topics. The agency item uses an Illinois illustration. These are editorial teaching labels, not official item classifications or proportions. | Use the full PSI outline to plan coverage beyond this cycle. |
What to do with the answer you chose
Day 1: contract status
Buyer and seller have a valid signed purchase contract. Substantial promised payment and deed delivery are still due. The question asks about performance status, not the act of signing.
- The question asks about performance status, not whether signatures exist.
- Material obligations remain for both parties.
- Executed versus executory is resolved by completed versus remaining performance in this exam contrast.
Answer: Executory describes the remaining performance. In another context, executed can mean signed, so read the question's stated contrast.
Day 2: Illinois escrow
An Illinois sponsored licensee receives earnest money in licensed work and wants to hold it overnight in the licensee's own account labelled escrow.
- Rule 1450.750(j) prohibits a sponsored licensee from maintaining an individual escrow account.
- Calling a personal account escrow does not cure the problem.
- Follow the sponsoring broker's written handling procedure; do not invent a one-business-day personal-account exception.
Answer: No. Identify the sponsored-licensee account restriction, then review the actual handling procedure.
Day 3: fair housing
A housing provider covered by the Illinois Human Rights Act rejects every Housing Choice Voucher applicant solely because the applicant uses a voucher.
- Lawful source of income is protected in covered Illinois transactions.
- Reasonable, equally applied screening must also avoid a discriminatory effect.
- For a minimum-income standard, IDHR says to consider the applicant's portion of rent; paperwork and inspection are not a general voucher-refusal exception.
Answer: The blanket voucher exclusion is improper under the stated coverage facts. This does not mean every applicant must be approved regardless of other lawful criteria.
Day 4: points calculation
A $260,000 loan carries 1.5 points. The property price is $325,000. What is the cost of the points?
- The points base is loan amount, making price a distractor.
- Convert 1.5% to 0.015.
- $260,000 multiplied by 0.015 equals $3,900.
Answer: The points cost $3,900. Log the base and reverse-check $3,900 divided by $260,000.
Day 5: seller report timing
Assume a covered, nonexempt Illinois residential sale and an allowed electronic delivery method. The seller sends the completed report before the buyer signs the purchase contract, but the buyer receives it after signing.
- Section 20 requires completion and delivery before the parties sign the contract.
- Section 50 makes delivery effective on receipt, not sending.
- The question establishes lateness. A particular termination right or damages remedy requires the separate statutory conditions.
Answer: The stated delivery is late. Do not infer automatic cancellation or a particular remedy from timing alone.
Day 6: agency and payment
In an Illinois buyer representation, the seller agrees to pay the buyer's brokerage. Does that payment alone turn the buyer's agent into the seller's agent?
- Section 15-40 separates the payment arrangement from the agency relationship.
- Identify the actual engagement, designated licensees and required disclosures.
- The compensation arrangement does not itself waive compensation-source disclosures, consent rules or other duties.
Answer: No. Review representation and compensation as related but separate questions.
A small result with a large percentage
You answer three of four Illinois daily-cycle questions correctly. You recognise two from an earlier cycle.
- 3/4 is 75%, but it comes from four items.
- Familiarity with two questions limits what the result shows about unfamiliar material.
- Keep the count and conditions beside the percentage, then try a broader fresh set.
Answer: Use the result to pick a review task, not to estimate a pass probability.
A fixed cycle is not a personal retry
You miss today's points question and return tomorrow expecting another points question selected for you.
- Tomorrow follows the fixed UTC-day rotation.
- This widget does not maintain a personal weak-area queue.
- Choose a separate fresh points exercise and record your own revisit date.
Answer: Use the daily question for a starting point and select the follow-up deliberately.
UTC midnight can be a different local day
A candidate opens the page at 23:59 UTC and again just after 00:00 UTC. Their local calendar date has not changed.
- The widget selects the edition by UTC day, not by local midnight.
- Crossing 00:00 UTC advances the fixed cycle.
- A local date or a daylight-saving change does not redefine the UTC boundary.
Answer: Use the displayed UTC edition. A question change does not require the local date to change.
Review the income base, not just the formula
Use the IDHR FAQ illustration: monthly rent is $2,000, a subsidy pays $1,500, and a reasonable, otherwise lawful minimum-income standard is three times the tenant's share.
- The tenant's share is $2,000 - $1,500 = $500.
- Three times that share is $1,500 of nonsubsidised monthly income.
- Applying three times the entire $2,000 rent would instead demand $6,000. The FAQ says to use the tenant's portion, and the stated multiplier is an illustration, not a universal legal minimum.
Answer: The illustration gives $1,500, not $6,000. Equal application alone does not excuse a discriminatory effect.
Mistakes to avoid
- A long streak proves I am ready. A streak shows repeated visits. Review unfamiliar answers, coverage and pacing separately.
- The feed will automatically revisit my misses. It follows a fixed cycle, so choose follow-up work yourself.
- Every correct answer means lasting mastery. Record guesses and test the rule again in a different scenario.
- One wrong answer proves the whole area is weak. Inspect the mistake and gather more fresh examples before making that conclusion.
- A source link settles every exception. Read coverage, dates, conditions and the exact proposition the source supports.
- The same wording is a new test after two weeks. Treat familiarity as part of the conditions and use unfamiliar material for a broader check.
- The daily lesson replaces required education. Continue the approved education and broader study required for your licensing path.
Check your review decisions
These are original teaching questions, not recalled or predicted PSI questions. Answer first, then explain why the other choices fail.
1. Before opening the explanation, what gives you a useful record of unaided practice?
- Memorise the option order
- Skip all difficult topics
- Copy the explanation first
- Choose an answer and note any uncertainty
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. Choose an answer and note any uncertainty
Choose before feedback and record whether you used notes or guessed. Confidence is a manual note here, not a feature this widget saves.
2. You choose correctly with low confidence and cannot explain the closest wrong answer. What is a useful next step?
- Delete every future question on the topic
- Declare the whole topic mastered
- Count the result as proof of passing
- Review the distinction and try a fresh scenario later
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. Review the distinction and try a fresh scenario later
Keep the correct result, but investigate the uncertainty. One answer does not establish lasting knowledge or a pass prediction.
3. Which area has the largest share of the Illinois broker state outline?
- The topic the daily widget happens to show
- Illinois Real Estate License Act
- Licensing Requirements
- Only national law
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. Illinois Real Estate License Act
The June 24, 2026 broker state outline allocates 16 of 40 scored items to the License Act. This describes the official area, not this daily cycle.
4. After missing a contract distinction, which follow-up best examines whether you can apply the rule to new facts?
- Review the rule, then answer an unfamiliar scenario testing that distinction
- Open the same answer repeatedly without attempting a question
- Memorise the original letter
- Remove contracts from study
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. Review the rule, then answer an unfamiliar scenario testing that distinction
Changed surface facts help you examine application beyond the original wording. This is a study suggestion, not a guaranteed retention schedule.
5. Which observation adds useful context to a daily-question streak?
- Your result on later unfamiliar questions, with topic and sample size
- Length of the explanations
- Questions opened without an answer
- Number of favourite-topic visits
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. Your result on later unfamiliar questions, with topic and sample size
Keep the denominator and conditions with the result. Later unfamiliar practice gives more information than a visit count alone, without establishing a validated readiness score.
6. You miss a question today. What does this page do tomorrow?
- Keeps the same question until you pass
- Follows the next UTC-day position in the fixed cycle
- Selects tomorrow's question from your error history
- Sends a personalised reminder
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. Follows the next UTC-day position in the fixed cycle
The widget uses the UTC day and a fixed 14-item array. It has no personal error-history or reminder system.
7. You answer three of four sampled questions correctly. What is the most accurate way to report it?
- A validated readiness threshold
- Proof that every Illinois area is covered
- Guaranteed 75% on the actual state exam
- 3/4, or 75%, on this small sample; not a pass prediction
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. 3/4, or 75%, on this small sample; not a pass prediction
The fraction is 3 divided by 4. One answer changes this four-item percentage by 25 percentage points, and familiarity or narrow coverage further limits the conclusion.
8. A primary source lists a topic but does not state the specific legal duty in the question. What should you do?
- Assume a listed topic proves every answer
- Treat the option letter as the source
- Substitute an undated social-media summary
- Read a substantive primary provision that supports the actual rule
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. Read a substantive primary provision that supports the actual rule
An official outline supports scope. A particular duty requires a source that actually states it, with its jurisdiction, coverage and conditions.
9. The UTC clock advances from 23:59 to 00:00, while your local date stays the same. What happens to this widget's edition?
- It never changes during an open session
- It advances to the next fixed-cycle item
- It changes only if you missed the question
- It must wait for local midnight
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. It advances to the next fixed-cycle item
The edition uses UTC day boundaries, and the widget subscribes to that boundary. Your local date is a different calendar label. This is not a personalised retry.
10. A landlord's adverse rental decision is based partly, but not mainly, on a tenant-screening consumer report. Which conclusion follows from the FTC guidance?
- No notice is needed unless the report is the main reason
- The report's partial influence can require the FCRA adverse-action notice
- The applicant must always be approved
- Giving notice proves the decision complies with every housing law
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. The report's partial influence can require the FCRA adverse-action notice
The report need only partly influence the adverse action. Give the required notice, including the CRA nondecision statement and report/dispute rights. Credit-score use adds written or electronic information duties. Notice does not cure discrimination.
11. Use the IDHR illustration: rent $2,000, subsidy $1,500, and a reasonable, otherwise lawful income standard of three times the tenant's share. What nonsubsidised monthly income does that illustration require?
- $500
- $4,500
- $1,500
- $6,000
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. $1,500
The tenant share is $2,000 - $1,500 = $500. $500 x 3 = $1,500. The multiplier is supplied, not a universal legal requirement; the standard must also avoid discriminatory effects.
12. One answer changes a four-item result from 3/4 to 2/4. What changes, and what does it establish?
- A 1% decrease and guaranteed failure
- A 50-percentage-point decrease on a full exam
- No change because both fractions have the same denominator
- A 25-percentage-point decrease on this small sample; it does not establish an equivalent change in exam competence
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. A 25-percentage-point decrease on this small sample; it does not establish an equivalent change in exam competence
3/4 = 75% and 2/4 = 50%, so the difference is 25 percentage points. That arithmetic describes four sampled answers, not a validated estimate of overall competence.
Common questions
Is the question of the day free?
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When does the daily question change?
The cycle changes at 00:00 UTC. The displayed date uses UTC, which can differ from your local calendar date. Returning at local midnight does not necessarily produce a new item.
How many questions are in the daily cycle?
Fourteen: ten items labelled with national topics and four labelled with Illinois topics. The agency item uses an Illinois illustration. These are teaching labels, not official exam classifications or weights. The same item returns every 14 UTC days. The questions are original, not official or recalled PSI content.
Does the daily rotation follow the PSI topic weights?
No. It is a fixed small rotation, not a proportionally weighted sample of every official area. Use the full PSI broker outline to plan broader coverage.
Does it choose questions based on my weak areas?
No. It does not adapt to your answers or keep an individual review queue. Choose a follow-up exercise yourself when an explanation exposes a gap.
Are my confidence, score and streak saved?
No. This page does not save confidence, timing, a streak or a result history. Record anything you want to keep before reloading or leaving. A UTC-day change also starts a new response.
Should I answer with notes open?
Try without notes first if you want to examine recall. Open-book work can still help learning, but record that condition instead of comparing it directly with an unaided attempt.
Is one question a day enough for the exam?
A daily item can start a study session, but this small cycle cannot cover the full exam. Pair it with lessons, calculations, broader unfamiliar practice and any approved education your licensing path requires.
What should I do after a wrong answer?
Name the rule and the fact you missed. Check the reference, then choose a fresh scenario on the same distinction after a delay. There is no official or page-validated one-, three- or seven-day retry requirement.
What if I guessed correctly?
Keep the correct result and note the guess. Try explaining the closest wrong option and solving a changed scenario later. A correct guess is a reason to investigate, not proof of permanent knowledge.
Can I change my answer after checking it?
The checked response is locked for that displayed UTC-day item during the current page session. Reloading starts again, so record the original result if you want an honest record of the first attempt.
Why does a source sometimes describe a different jurisdiction?
Public-agency teaching sources can support a general concept or calculation. Illinois-specific duties need the cited Illinois authority. The explanation should tell you the assumptions instead of treating another jurisdiction's rule as Illinois law.
What does a streak tell me?
It can show consistency if you keep your own record. It does not measure complete coverage, unfamiliar-question performance, pacing or pass probability.
Does this count as Illinois pre-license education?
No. This is exam preparation. It does not satisfy or replace approved pre-license education, provider requirements or the other conditions for licensing.
Why did I see a loading message before the question?
The server cannot know the current browser session's UTC edition in a static build. The widget waits for its UTC-day subscription before displaying the current item, so an old build-day question is not presented as today's edition. The rest of the lesson remains available in the page HTML.
Can I use the archive instead of waiting for tomorrow?
Yes. The linked question archive is a separate practice resource you can use now. Its questions and controls are separate from this page's 14-item daily rotation.
What if I think the explanation misses an important condition?
Check the exact cited provision and the assumptions in the question. Coverage, jurisdiction, receipt dates and exceptions can change the answer. Use the page's feedback route to flag a possible issue; do not substitute an undated summary for the primary rule.
Does a later higher score prove the daily habit caused improvement?
No. More study, repeated wording and different question difficulty can affect the result. Keep counts and testing conditions with your notes. This page has not been validated to measure a causal learning gain or a pass probability.
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Official sources and scope
Reviewed October 28, 2026. PSI supplies exam scope, not the answers to every legal question. The daily items use the specific Illinois provisions and federal or public-agency references listed below. The study-research reference supports retrieval practice generally; it does not validate this quiz, a review interval or a pass prediction.
- PSI Illinois Candidate Information Booklet: National Financing outline
- California DRE glossary: executory, constructive notice and tenancy in common
- 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.750: escrow, transfers, release, records and supervision
- 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.770, July 13, 2026: required terms, timing and protection periods
- 225 ILCS 454/15-40, compensation does not determine agency
- 765 ILCS 77/20: complete report before contract signing
- 765 ILCS 77/50: delivery methods, receipt and multiple buyers
- EPA real-estate disclosures guidance, May 27, 2026
- CFPB: contractual mortgage documents
- CFPB: points and loan amount
- California DRE Reference Book chapter 15: overall-rate and income arithmetic
- OCC Commercial Real Estate Lending handbook: income and value analysis
- 65 ILCS 5/11-13-5: municipal variation authority and limits
- 65 ILCS 5/11-13-11: findings, plans and the specific terms of relief
- Palatine published trade-fixture and lease decision
- 765 ILCS 5/30: filing and the specified third parties
- Roediger and Karpicke: Test-enhanced learning
- IDHR housing rights: voucher exclusion and coverage
- IDHR source-of-income FAQ: reasonable screening and tenant share
- CFPB: tenant-screening adverse-action notice
- FTC: landlords using consumer reports
This is exam preparation, not advice for a specific transaction. State law and the applicable facts control. Our editorial and corrections process explains how to report an issue.