Excerpt from AMP Candidate Handbook

Applied Measurement Professionals, Inc. (AMP) provides a range of services to the states that use the Real Estate Examination Program (REP). This booklet describes how to apply for Georgia’s real estate licensing examinations and obtain a real estate license. Be sure to keep the booklet after you have applied for the examination; you may wish to refer to it later.

The real estate examinations are developed through a combined effort of real estate experts and testing professionals. Real estate practitioners and educators write the questions. Experts in the fields of both real estate and testing review the questions to ensure that they are accurate in their content and representative of good question-writing procedures.

Representatives from states participating in the AMP Real Estate Examination Program review the questions to make certain that the content is accurate and relevant to real estate practices in their own states. Finally, all questions are revised and updated on a continual basis to reflect the current laws and practices in the changing real estate field.

The examination content outlines used to develop the examinations are based on a job analysis and expert judgment. They reflect areas of knowledge required to perform those tasks that practicing real estate brokers, salespersons, and community association managers judged to be important. Real estate experts who write questions for AMP use these content outlines as a guide. Thus, examinees are tested only on subjects judged by real estate brokers, salespersons, and community association managers as most important for beginning licensees to know.

The content outlines do not include topics, such as promotional skills, that may be helpful to success in the industry. Since the purpose of licensure testing is to protect the public interest by assuring that potential licensees understand basic legal requirements and business practices in the real estate brokerage industry, the examinations focus on the knowledge you must have and your ability to apply that knowledge to a particular situation. Similarly, the examinations include some technical language not used in your everyday conversations. You must learn that language to become a part of the profession and be able to explain its meaning to customers and clients.

STATEMENT OF NONDISCRIMINATION

AMP does not discriminate among candidates on the basis of age, gender, race, religion, national origin, disability, or marital status.

EXAMINATION ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Salesperson Candidate

Applicants for the Salesperson Examination must fulfill ONE of the following requirements.

1. Successfully complete the required 75-hour Salesperson’s Prelicense Course at a school approved by the Georgia Real Estate Commission. (See 1 under APPLYING FOR THE EXAMINATION.)
   
   Note: If you are applying because your salesperson license lapsed due to your failure to complete the 25-hour Postlicense Course in the first year of your licensure, you must present proof of completion of both the 75-hour Prelicense Course and the 25-hour Postlicense Course. (See 4 under APPLYING FOR THE EXAMINATION.)
   
   
2. Successfully complete a minimum of 10 quarter hours or 6 semester hours of either course work eligible for a major in real estate from a U.S. or Canadian accredited college or university or courses in real property, agency, or contracts from a U.S. or Canadian accredited school of law. You must submit to AMP (not the Commission) an official transcript from the college, university, or school of law with your application for examination (do not mail the transcript to AMP without the examination registration form on page 21). Letters and grade reports are not acceptable. Continuing education, adult education, crash seminars, and special short courses are not acceptable. If your coursework is acceptable, AMP will contact you within five business days of your application being received to schedule an appointment for an examination. If your coursework is not acceptable, your application materials will be returned unprocessed. (See 3 under APPLYING FOR THE EXAMINATION.)
   
   
3. Provide proof of completion of at least 75 hours of pre-license course work approved by the real estate regulatory agency of another state or province of Canada. You must obtain a letter from that agency that verifies that the course work is approved in that state or province.